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Reports from Tehran indicate that the new Supreme Leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, is suffering from severe disfiguring injuries sustained during an airstrike in February that killed his father.
This revelation comes at a moment of extreme geopolitical tension, as the 56-year-old leader, who has no public presence and unproven authority, is called to oversee peace negotiations in Islamabad, which depend on a great deal.

More than 8,000 people have died in the Middle East since the war with Iran began on February 28, when the US and Israel struck Iran, according to reports from regional authorities.
The strikes provoked Iranian attacks on Israel, US bases, and Gulf states, and also opened a new front in Lebanon. A two-week ceasefire agreement between Iran and the US was reached on Wednesday.

The largest shipowners in Asia have begun a cautious movement towards the blocked Strait of Hormuz, testing the strength of the recently announced US-Iran ceasefire agreement. Against the backdrop of contradictory statements from politicians, hundreds of tankers, trapped in the Persian Gulf since the end of February, have started to converge towards the narrow exit to the open ocean, reports Bloomberg.

TotalEnergies announced on Friday that one of the production lines at the SATORP oil refinery in Saudi Arabia was damaged as a result of incidents that occurred during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.
The French oil company reported that it has halted the affected units as a precautionary measure following incidents. TotalEnergies is currently conducting an assessment to determine the impact on the operation of the oil refinery.

The U.S. administration has moved to strict requirements in relations with its European allies. Washington has requested specific legal and military commitments from NATO partners to ensure the security of shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Detailed patrol plans must be presented to Donald Trump within a matter of days, reports Bloomberg.

Israel continues to carry out massive strikes on Lebanon. A representative of the Israeli army reported on Wednesday, April 8, that within ten minutes, strikes were made on more than 100 command centers and military bases belonging to the Iran-backed radical Shiite movement "Hezbollah" in the Lebanese capital Beirut, as well as in the east and south of the country. About 50 Israeli fighter jets participated in the attack.

Shortly after the agreed ceasefire in the war between the USA and Iran, President Donald Trump issued a threat to countries supplying weapons to Iran. Punitive tariffs of 50 percent will be imposed on these states, the head of the White House wrote on Wednesday, April 8, in his social media Truth Social. The corresponding tariff rate will apply to all goods sold in the USA, this measure takes effect immediately and without exceptions, the message further states.

European natural gas prices experienced the largest intraday drop in the last two years. Investors reacted with massive sell-offs to news of a two-week ceasefire agreement between the USA and Iran, reports Bloomberg.
On Wednesday morning, benchmark gas futures plummeted by 20%. By 9:41 Moscow time, quotes were recorded at 44.13 euros per megawatt-hour (down 17%), dropping to their lowest levels since March 2 – the day when the unprecedented 'military rally' began.

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An attack was carried out on the Saudi Arabia East-West pipeline, which transports crude oil from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea for subsequent export, two sources told the Financial Times, as well as one source from Bloomberg. One of the pumping stations located along the pipeline was hit. One of the FT sources clarified that the attack was carried out using a drone. According to another, an assessment of the damage is being conducted.

The global shipping industry is cautiously examining the conditions of the US-Iran agreement on the ceasefire. The arrangement aims to temporarily unblock the Strait of Hormuz and allow more than 800 commercial vessels trapped in the Persian Gulf to finally head out to the open ocean. However, market participants are hesitant to send their tankers into the dangerous zone, reports Bloomberg.

Oil prices collapsed by more than 15% during Asian trading on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump agreed to a two-week truce with Iran, just hours before his own deadline for resuming operations in the Strait of Hormuz.

Chiyoda Corp. (TYO:6366) shares soared on Wednesday after reports emerged that the company is considering resuming construction work on a large liquefied natural gas export facility in Qatar, shortly after the US and Iran agreed to a ceasefire.

The war in the Middle East will lead to rising inflation and a slowing global economic growth. This was stated on Monday, April 6, by the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, in an interview with Reuters ahead of the new forecast for the global economy that the fund plans to publish next week.

U.S. President Donald Trump criticized Australia, Japan, South Korea, and once again NATO at a press conference at the White House on Monday evening, April 6, for the fact that the allies did not provide the United States and Israel with assistance in their war against Iran.
"Japan did not help us, Australia did not help us, South Korea did not help us, and here we come to NATO - and NATO did not help us", - lamented the head of the American state.

Two Qatari LNG tankers appear to have abandoned their attempt to exit the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, thwarting what could have been the first fuel export outside the region since the start of the war, reports Bloomberg.
The gas carriers Al Daayen and Rasheeda, which loaded at the export facility in Qatar at the end of February, made a 180-degree turn away from the strait after previously heading east toward the waterway near Oman.

The new price peak for diesel on Easter Sunday was 2.44 euros per liter, reported ADAC. No decrease in prices for this type of fuel and gasoline in Germany is expected until the end of the war in Iran.

The price of diesel fuel in Germany has reached another peak level, reports the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (ADAC, Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club e.V.) in a material published on Monday, April 6. According to them, on Easter Sunday, the average daily price for diesel fuel was 2.44 euros per liter, which is 1.5 cents higher than the previous day.

Natural gas exports from Israel to Egypt have returned to normal levels following the resumption of production at the country's largest gas field, Bloomberg reported on Monday.
Supplies from Israel's Leviathan and Tamar gas fields resumed on Saturday and reached their usual level of about 1.1 billion cubic feet per day, according to the report.

Oil prices rose by more than 2%, while futures on U.S. stock indices fell at the start of trading after the weekend amid new threats from Donald Trump regarding Iran.

— Brent crude oil futures for June were up 2.2% at the time of publication, reaching $111.4 per barrel.
— Nasdaq Composite index futures fell by 0.8%. Futures on the broad S&P 500 index and blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.6%.

Iran rejected the latest threats from US President Donald Trump, dismissing his ultimatum regarding the Strait of Hormuz while simultaneously proposing new conditions for opening the key waterway and pointing out the risk of more widespread disruption of global trade routes.
In a publication on X (formerly Twitter, blocked in the territory of the Russian Federation), the speaker of the parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf called Trump's warning about strikes on Iranian infrastructure 'reckless'.

The UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait accused Iran of attacks on infrastructure facilities using drones. Most fires have already been extinguished, and there have been no reports of casualties from either Abu Dhabi, Manama, or Kuwait City.

Fire at Bapco Energies plant (March 2026)
As a result of Iran's attack on a petrochemical facility in the United Arab Emirates, a fire broke out. This was reported by the Abu Dhabi government press service on Sunday, April 5.