Top updates: Iranian desalination plant in Hormuz hit, Trump threatens to ‘obliterate’ Kharg Island

Strikes have hit an Iranian desalination plant in the Strait of Hormuz, rendering it out of service, AFP quoted local media as saying on Tuesday. It was not immediately when the strikes took place.

On Monday, United States President Donald Trump said that the US military will “obliterate” all of Iran’s electricity plants, oil wells, the Kharg island and “possibly all” desalinisation plants if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened by Tehran.

Trump reiterated that Washington was in “serious discussions with a new, and more reasonable, regime” to end the US’ military attacks on Iran.

Here are more top updates from the conflict in West Asia:

• A desalination plant on Iran’s Qeshm Island, located in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, was targeted by strikes, the ISNA news agency quoted a health ministry official, Mohsen Farhadi, as saying. He added that the facility is now completely out of service and cannot be repaired in the short term.
• The authorities in Dubai said on Tuesday that they have contained a fire onboard a Kuwaiti oil tanker at the city’s port. The vessel had caught fire after it was struck by a drone on Monday. All 24 crew members are safe, it said. While Al Jazeera quoted the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation as having warned that the...

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