Turkish FM Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu decries PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s “embarrassing” plan to annex the Jordan Valley as a “despicable” attempt to earn votes ahead of Tuesday’s election, and criticizes what he calls a lack of reaction from other Muslim countries.
Benchmark Brent crude gains nearly 20% in the first moments of trading Monday before settling down to 10% higher as trading continued. A barrel of Brent trades up $6 to $66.28. At 5.7 million barrels of crude oil a day, the Saudi disruption would be the greatest on record for world markets.
“Folks, it’s time to reveal: This is the ‘Islands Plan’ of the ‘deal of the century,’ which will be imposed on us right after the elections,” Yamina candidate Naftali Bennett writes on Facebook. “In black, Palestine. In white, isolated Israeli ‘islands’ in an ocean of Palestine, surrounded 360 degrees by Hamas, Tanzim, PLO." Senior US official refutes Bennett's claims as "highly inaccurate.”
A senior White House official tells ABC News that Iran launched a dozen cruise missiles and around 20 drones in the air attacks targeting two key Saudi oil facilities over the weekend. Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen "are claiming credit for something they did not do," the source says. Trump: US is "locked and loaded" and waiting to hear from the Saudis as to how to proceed.
In the wake of the national security adviser’s departure, members of the Trump administration have been at pains to stress that there will be no letup in America’s policy of reimposing sanctions on Iran.
