Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a press conference that he saw “this war ending a lot faster than people think”. Emirati and Kuwaiti air defences were responding to missile attacks on Friday, authorities in the Gulf states said. Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry said it had intercepted and destroyed 10 drones in the country’s east and another in the north.
Bahrain’s interior ministry said that shrapnel from an “Iranian aggression” caused a fire at a warehouse, which was brought under control and resulted in no injuries. Crude prices fell more than two percent Friday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran was being “decimated” and that the war would end earlier than many feared. Both main oil contracts sank on Friday, though Brent remains at about $105 and West Texas Intermediate at about $93.
Before Netanyahu’s comments Thursday, the commodity had soared to as high as $119 after Tehran struck a number of energy sites around the Gulf in retaliation for Israel’s attack on its South Pars field. “We are winning, and Iran is being decimated,” Netanyahu said, adding that Iran was no longer able to enrich uranium or to build ballistic missiles. He also denied that Israel “dragged” the US into the war, saying, “Does anyone really think that someone can tell President Trump what to do?” Netanyahu said Israel acted on its own when it struck an Iranian gas field, which sparked a retaliatory strike by Tehran on Qatar’s main gas hub.
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“Israel acted alone against the Asaluyeh gas compound… President Trump asked us to hold off on future attacks and we’re holding out.”
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