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“In this response, which consists of ten paragraphs, Iran, based on previous experiences, while rejecting a ceasefire, emphasized the need for a permanent end to the war while respecting Iran's considerations,” IRNA reported.
Iran has responded to U.S. and Israeli strikes by effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial passage between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman through which around a fifth of global oil production flows.
On April 6, the U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate climbed to $115.48 per barrel, up by 3.5 per cent, and Brent crude rose to almost $112 per barrel.
"They made a proposal, and it's a significant proposal. It's a significant step. It's not good enough," Trump told reporters on Monday at an annual White House Easter event.
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Israel says it killed Islamic Revolutionary Guards intelligence chief
Israel said on Monday that it had killed the Revolutionary Guards' intelligence chief, Majid Khademi, in airstrikes on the country.
The Guards' intelligence organization, or SASP, was expanded from a military counterintelligence department into a powerful intelligence apparatus in October 2009 at the orders of Iran's previous supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following the 2009 Green Movement against the regime.
In time it became the primary intelligence apparatus of the state, and its instrument of choice in clamping down on dissidents and critics of the regime.
“As we saw before, the death of the Guards’ chief of intelligence had no meaningful effect on their ability to clamp down on protests. Only a few short months later they were able to violently suppress the millions who took to the streets in January,” an analyst inside Iran told Time.
Petrochemical plants and universities targeted in strikes
The strike on the guards’ intelligence chief was not the only strike of the night. Iran’s ministry of health reported that seven children under the age of 10 were killed in the strikes throughout the country, with the youngest less than 12 months old.
“The High-Performance Computing faculty and the Information and Communication Technology Centre were destroyed. That means the thesis and research of hundreds of students, including some of the country’s brightest minds went up in smoke,” said an engineering professor in a Tehran university, who like others interviewed by Time requested not to be named out of fear of retribution.
“Mobin and Damavand utility plants, which provided the necessary water, electricity and oxygen for Asalouyeh’s petrochemical plants were struck,” the semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported, adding that there will not be any electricity for the region’s multiple petrochemical plants until the utility plants are repaired.
Local media also reported that the Marvdasht industrial estate near Shiraz was also targeted, with the electricity utility plant of the Marvdasht Petrochemical Plant being hit according to a communique issued by the Marvdasht governorate.
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