Iran’s Unrelenting Attacks Send Oil Prices Soaring

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Unrelenting Iranian attacks on shipping traffic and energy infrastructure again pushed oil above $100 a barrel. Iran on Thursday hit a container ship off the coast of Dubai, caused a blaze near Bahrain’s international airport, targeted a major Saudi oil field with a drone attack and forced Iraq to halt operations at all the country’s oil terminals after an attack on its Basra port on the Persian Gulf. Meantime, American and Israeli strikes pounded the Islamic Republic with no sign of an end to the war in sight. Sirens wailed before dawn in Jerusalem after Israel said it was working to intercept missiles launched from Iran.