A woman looks out from her destroyed apartment in the remains of a residential and commercial building in the Shahrak-e Gharb neighbourhood of Tehran, Iran, on Saturday. For now, the vast majority of Iran’s oil is bought by Chinese customers. Iranian oil ministry spokesman Saman Ghodousi said on X that the nation has no floating crude, nor a surplus that’s available for international markets. Some allies have said they will ⁠consider it, but most say they are reluctant to join a war that Trump started without ​consulting them. Israel also attacked Beirut, saying it ​was targeting the Iran-backed Lebanese Hizbullah militia, part of the deadliest spillover from the war on Iran.

Source: The Irish Times March 21, 2026 22:20 UTC