Iran also kept up attacks on the Gulf.<\/p>\n
In Kuwait, power lines were hit from air defense shrapnel, causing partial electricity outages in several hours. Missile alert sirens sounded in Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia\u2019s Defense Ministry said it had destroyed 19 Iranian drones targeting its oil-rich Eastern Province.<\/p>\n
The attacks came as US President Donald Trump announced<\/a> his administration was engaged in talks to end the war that the US and Israel launched on the Islamic Republic on February 28 in a bid to destabilize its regime and destroy its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.<\/p>\n \t Soon after Trump\u2019s announcement, the IDF said it launched a new wave of strikes targeting Iranian regime infrastructure sites in Tehran.<\/p>\n The military later said the Israeli Air Force struck the IRGC\u2019s \u201cmain security headquarters.\u201d According to the IDF, the site was embedded within \u201ccivilian infrastructure\u201d and was used to \u201csynchronize regional units responsible for enforcing regime order and internal security,\u201d including the Basij paramilitary force. Steps were taken to mitigate civilian harm in the strike, the military said.<\/p>\n Overnight into Monday, dozens of Air Force jets dropped over 100 bombs on Iranian military bases and weapons production sites during a wave of airstrikes in Tehran, the IDF said.<\/p>\n According to the IDF, the sites included: A base of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\u2019 Quds Force that oversaw \u201coperational and intelligence activity\u201d; an IRGC air defense headquarters; an IRGC ground forces headquarters; an intelligence headquarters of the IRGC Quds Force; a naval cruise missile production site belonging to the Iranian defense ministry; and several more facilities involved in the production and research of weapons, including in the fields of electronics, ballistic missiles, and warheads.<\/p>\n Draft Security Council resolution calls to open Hormuz by \u2018all necessary means\u2019<\/p>\n The UN Security Council is negotiating on a draft resolution introduced by Bahrain to authorize states to use \u201call necessary means\u201d to ensure freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, diplomatic sources said Monday.<\/p>\n The draft text, seen by AFP, also demands that Iran \u201cimmediately cease all attacks against merchant and commercial vessels and any attempt to impede lawful transit passage or freedom of navigation\u201d in and around the Strait.<\/p>\n Just a trickle of cargo ships and tankers, most of them Iranian, have made it through the Strait since Iran effectively blocked<\/a> it in response to the US-Israeli bombing campaign. Normally, about a fifth of global crude oil and liquefied natural gas pass through the Strait. The virtual stoppage has sent prices soaring.<\/p>\n \t The UN Security Council draft resolution proposes allowing member states \u201cto use all necessary means\u201d \u2014 including within the territorial waters of littoral states within or bordering the Strait \u2014 \u201cto secure transit passage and to repress, neutralize and deter attempts to close, obstruct or otherwise interfere with international navigation\u201d there.<\/p>\n The draft also threatens targeted sanctions against those who \u201cundermine navigational rights and freedoms\u201d in the Strait.<\/p>\n The resolution text could be modified during the negotiations among member states in the 15-member council, the UN\u2019s highest decision-making body.<\/p>\n Its chances of approval by the council, where the five permanent members have veto power, remain unclear.<\/p>\n Bahrain, acting on behalf of the Gulf states, was behind a resolution adopted by the council in mid-March that demanded the \u201cimmediate cessation\u201d of Iranian attacks against the Gulf states and Jordan.<\/p>\n \t Meanwhile, two tankers bound for India sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.<\/p>\n The two India-flagged tankers were carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) used mostly for cooking in India. They loaded at anchorages in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, LSEG ship-tracking data showed.<\/p>\n The Pine Gas, which loaded in\u00a0UAE\u00a0waters, sailed through the strait followed by the Jag Vasant carrying LPG from Kuwait,\u00a0ship-tracking\u00a0data on the MarineTraffic platform showed.<\/p>\n India\u2019s Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, confirmed that the two tankers, carrying more than 92,000 tons of LPG, had sailed through Hormuz and were expected to reach ports in India between March 26-28.<\/p>\n Hundreds of vessels have dropped anchor in and outside of the Gulf, cutting off food and other vital imports and energy exports, mostly to Asia and Europe, and some 20,000 seafarers remain stranded inside the Gulf, according to the UN\u2019s shipping agency.<\/p>\n
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