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Overnight strikes hit Tehran and other Iranian cities as diplomatic efforts continued and fears grew that the fighting could widen, with US troops arriving in the region and global markets reacting sharply.
The UK, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan say they can help restore safe commercial passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran denounces any aid to the US as complicity and tensions keep producing strikes, arrests and higher oil prices.
On day 20 the Israel-Iran war widened: Israel struck Iran’s South Pars gasfield, Iran launched missiles at Gulf energy facilities including Qatar’s Ras Laffan, senior Iranian figures were killed, and diplomatic and economic ripples reached the US and global markets.