Oil tankers struck by missiles or sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz throughout October spilled crude into the sea, creating vast slicks visible from space. The pollution has spread across the Gulf, contaminating coastlines and threatening marine ecosystems that include dolphins, sea turtles, and fish.

This environmental impact is occurring eight months into the war between the US and Iran, which has turned the shipping route into a battlefield.

Has Trump lost the Iran War? What his friend Henry Kissinger once said about guerrillas will haunt Trump's legacy “The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win”, the statesman Henry Kissinger wrote in a January 1969 essay the ‘The Vietnam Negotiations’.

Oil prices fell more than 1% on Thursday as investors weighed the possibility of progress in diplomatic efforts to end the Iran war and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Brent crude futures declined $1.14, or 1.2%, to $91.62 a barrel by 0141 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures dropped $1.

04, or 1.2%, to $85.49.

The Daily Mail reports that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu allegedly engaged in a dispute described as a "shouting match from hell" regarding next steps in the Iran war. The publication notes that the relationship between the two leaders has frequently frayed as the conflict continues, although Trump has remained steadfast in his backing of Israel.