Visualizing the US-Israeli war with Iran and retaliation in maps and charts
Visualizing the US-Israeli war with Iran and retaliation in maps and charts
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Smoke billows above the compound of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday February 28. - Airbus
War in the Middle East is expanding after the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday, and Tehran retaliated with strikes against several of its neighbors, including US-allied Gulf states. Israel and Hezbollah are also trading blows as the conflict widens.
CNN is tracking the US-Israeli strikes across Iran, and Tehran’s retaliatory attacks on US military bases and consulates, Israel and other targets across the region.
US and Israeli military air strikes killed numerous members of the Iranian leadership, including the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, and more strikes Tuesday targeted additional leaders. The death toll from the conflict is growing across many countries.
A look at some of the damage across the region
President Donald Trump told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Monday that “the biggest surprise” has been Iran’s attacks against Arab countries in the region: Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Iran’s top official said Tehran “will not negotiate” with the United States, as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine said Monday that the war against Iran would not be a “single, overnight operation.”
Trump acknowledged there could be more US casualties as the conflict escalates. At least six US service members were killed in Kuwait in a direct hit on a makeshift operations center at the civilian port of Shuaiba on Sunday morning local time, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.
The conflict has damaged air hubs, rocked densely populated areas and disrupted oil shipments.
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Shipping disruptions persist in critical waterway amid strikes
The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway off Iran’s southern coast, is the main shipping route for crude from oil-rich countries such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to the rest of the world. Iran, which controls the strait’s northern side, on Monday warned that vessels passing through the strait would be targeted, according to an adviser to the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
About one-fifth of daily global production typically flowed through the strait before the current conflict, according to the US Energy Information Administration, which calls the channel a “critical oil chokepoint.”
Oil prices surged, already beginning to hike gas prices when Americans are already struggling with affordability. Global oil prices on Monday traded at their highest level in over eight months, since US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June.
Flight disruptions
Data from Flightradar24 shows virtually no flight traffic over Iran and other Middle Eastern countries after the strikes. This graphic compares air traffic from a week ago to traffic on Saturday evening, local time. A wide corridor of Middle East airspace remained closed Tuesday.
Internet access disrupted across Iran
As of Tuesday morning local time, Iran’s internet connectivity dropped to about 1%.
—CNN’s Jake Tapper, Christian Edwards, Karina Tsui, Tim Lister, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Lauren Kent, Billy Stockwell, John Towfighi and Adam Pourahmadi contributed to this report.
This story has been with additional developments.
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