President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes attack targeting military and government sites, officials said.
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Authorities in Dubai said emergency responders extinguished a fire involving a Kuwaiti oil tanker in the emirate's waters, which burned for several hours following a drone attack.
The incident began after a drone struck the vessel, identified as Anchorage "E." Maritime firefighting teams were deployed to bring the fire under control, the Dubai Media Office said in posts to social media.
Officials said no injuries were reported and all 24 crew members aboard the tanker were accounted for.
-ABC News' Jason Volack and Joe Simonetti
A tanker was struck by an "unknown projectile" off the coast of Dubai on Monday, sparking a fire, according to a maritime security alert.
The incident occurred about 31 nautical miles northwest of Dubai, near the Strait of Hormuz, according to the UK Maritime Trade Operations Centre.
A Kuwaiti crude oil tanker was damaged in the strike, according to the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. The tanker was fully loaded at the time, the company said.
All crew members are safe, and no environmental impact has been reported, according to the UKMTO.
The incident is under investigation, according to the UKMTO, which advised vessels to "transit with caution."
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she thinks President Donald Trump "would be quite interested in calling" on Middle East allies like Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to pay for the costs of the war in Iran.
“I won't get ahead of him on that. But certainly it's an idea that I know that he has, and something that I think you'll hear more from him on,” she said in response to a reporter’s question at Monday’s White House briefing.
-ABC News’ Michelle Stoddart
President Donald Trump told
the New York Post on Monday that the U.S. is talking to new leaders in Iran, without providing more details.
“There has been total regime change because the regimes of the past are gone and we’re dealing with a whole new set of people,” Trump said. “And thus far, they’ve been much more reasonable.”
The president also said the U.S. response to Iranian strikes on an Israeli oil refinery would be seen soon.
“You’ll see shortly,” Trump told the paper when asked about his response.
Trump added that the U.S. is waiting to see if Iran’s Parliamentary Leader Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf will work with the U.S., and he claimed that Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was “seriously injured.”
“We’re gonna find out,” Trump told The Post when asked about Ghalibaf. “I’ll let you know that in about a week.”
“Nobody’s heard from him,” Trump said of the younger Khamenei. “He’s very seriously injured.”
Asked if he was still alive, Trump said that he “probably” was.
“We don’t know. We think probably yes, but in extraordinarily bad shape,” he said.
-ABC News’ Nicholas Kerr
President Trump reiterated his calls for NATO allies to help patrol the Strait of Hormuz, telling Politico, “They gotta get guts and go in.”
“Just send your ships up there and enjoy it," the president told Politico in a phone interview after his evening address Wednesday.
Asked why he didn’t outright mention NATO in his address last night, Trump claimed he did so “indirectly.”
“Well, I did indirectly. I talked about the people that use the -- it wasn't a NATO speech, it was a Middle East speech, but I did indirectly. I talked about the Strait, they weren't there,” Trump said.
During his address Wednesday night, Trump repeated his claim that the U.S. doesn’t depend on oil from the Strait like other countries do, saying “we’re there to help our allies.”
