US-Iran war LIVE Updates: Drones struck a fuel tank at Kuwait International Airport, igniting a fire, the country’s civil aviation authority said Wednesday, adding that no casualties were reported. Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he had sent a peace proposal to Iran, expressing optimism about ending nearly a month-long conflict, while Tehran announced it would allow “non-hostile” oil vessels to pass through the vital Strait of Hormuz, as reported by AFP.
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“They are going to make a deal. They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually. They gave us a present. And the present arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money,” the US President said. “I am not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize. And they gave it to us,” he said. Trump did not provide details about the gift—describing it as “worth a tremendous amount of money”—but confirmed it was connected to energy shipments passing through the Strait of Hormuz, Bloomberg reported. Drones hit a fuel tank and sparked a fire at Kuwait International Airport, the Gulf state's civil aviation authority said on Wednesday, reporting no casualties, AFP reported. Brent crude oil, the global market benchmark, dropped close to six percent Wednesday after US President Donald Trump sent a peace plan to Iran, AFP reported. At around 0030 GMT, a barrel of Brent crude was down 5.92 percent at $98.30. Benchmark US oil contract, West Texas Intermediate, was down 5.01 percent at $87.72. The Israeli military said early Wednesday that it was carrying out strikes on targets in Iran’s capital, Tehran, shortly after reporting that Iran had launched a barrage of missiles toward Israel. Iran says a projectile struck the area of the Bushehr nuclear power plant. No casualties or technical damage were reported at the facility from the incident Tuesday night, which Iran’s atomic agency blamed on Israel and the United States. The International Atomic Energy Agency posted on X that it “has been informed by Iran that another projectile hit the premises of the Bushehr.
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