핵심요약

• 미국은 이란 전쟁에서 리퍼 드론의 1/4을 상실했습니다.
• 이란은 호르무즈 해협 항로에 대해 오만과 합의를 도출했습니다.
• 레바논에서는 헤즈볼라 공격으로 최소 7명이 사망했습니다.
• 예멘의 알-마카 항구는 후티 공격으로 25개 이상의 미사일에 의해 타격을 입었고 7명이 사망했습니다.

도입

본 기사는 지정학적 갈등이 글로벌 에너지 시장과 지역 안보에 미치는 직접적인 영향을 분석하는 데 중요합니다. 미국과 이란 간의 군사적 긴장과 중동 지역의 불안정성은 국제 해상 운송로의 안전성과 에너지 공급망에 즉각적인 변동성을 야기합니다. 따라서 이 사건들은 단순한 군사적 충돌을 넘어, 세계 경제의 구조적 위험 요인을 이해하는 데 필수적인 맥락을 제공합니다.

본문 1: 지정학적 안정성과 에너지 운송로의 재평가

이란과 오만 간의 호르무즈 해협 항로 합의는 지정학적 갈등이 실질적인 외교적 해결로 이어질 수 있음을 보여주는 중요한 신호입니다. 이 합의는 에너지 운송로의 잠재적 안정성을 높여 국제 유가 및 해상 물류 비용에 미치는 영향을 재평가하게 만듭니다. 이는 지정학적 위험이 경제적 비용으로 전환되는 메커니즘을 명확히 보여줍니다. 또한, 미국이 리퍼 드론을 상실하는 상황은 군사적 개입의 비용과 효율성에 대한 전략적 재검토를 요구하며, 이는 향후 중동 지역의 군사적 역학 관계에 영향을 미칠 수 있습니다.

본문 2: 지역 분쟁의 연쇄 효과와 공급망 리스크

레바논과 예멘에서 발생한 군사적 충돌은 지역 안보의 취약성을 드러내며 글로벌 공급망에 연쇄적인 위험을 전가합니다. 헤즈볼라의 공격과 후티의 해상 공격은 해상 무역로의 안전성을 위협하고, 이는 원유 및 기타 에너지 상품의 운송 비용 증가로 이어집니다. 특히 예멘의 알-마카 항구와 같은 핵심 해상 시설에 대한 공격은 글로벌 상품 가격의 변동성을 확대시키는 요인으로 작용합니다. 이러한 지역적 불안정성은 글로벌 기업들의 운영 비용과 예측 가능성을 저해하며, 이는 장기적인 인플레이션 압력으로 작용할 가능성이 높습니다.

본문 3: 군사적 개입의 비용과 장기적 전망

미국이 군사적 자산을 상실하는 상황은 장기적인 중동 정책의 목표와 실행 가능성에 대한 질문을 던집니다. 군사적 개입이 의도한 결과를 달성하기 위해 투입되는 자원 대비 성과를 분석하는 것은 중요합니다. 향후 중동 지역의 안정화는 일시적인 합의보다는 지속적인 지역 포용 정책에 달려 있으며, 이는 단기적인 군사적 성과와 장기적인 외교적 관계 구축 사이의 균형을 요구합니다. 이러한 다면적인 접근 방식이 실패할 경우, 지역 불안정성은 더욱 심화되어 글로벌 경제에 부정적인 영향을 미칠 수 있습니다.

결론

종합적으로 볼 때, 이 사건들은 지정학적 위험이 경제적 현실로 구체화되는 과정을 보여줍니다. 호르무즈 해협의 합의는 일시적인 안정을 제공하지만, 레바논과 예멘에서의 지속적인 충돌은 해상 물류와 에너지 시장에 지속적인 변동성을 야기할 것입니다. 투자자들은 지역 안보의 변화와 에너지 공급망의 복잡성을 지속적으로 모니터링하며, 지정학적 리스크가 거시 경제 지표에 미치는 영향을 면밀히 분석해야 할 것입니다.

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US War on Iran, Day 169: Americans Lose 1/4 of Their Reaper Drones - EA WorldView

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UPDATES: US War on Iran, Day 168 — Trump Administration in Dead End as Tehran Controls Strait of Hormuz

UPDATE 1618 GMT: Iran’s Foreign Ministry claims Tehran has reached an agreement with Oman on the route for the Strait of Hormuz after technical negotiations. Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said, “Despite US obstruction, the talks have made positive progress over the past three weeks and an agreement has been reached on the shipping route map.” Baghaei said the two sides were negotiating outstanding issues, including a joint statement. UPDATE 1613 GMT: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says three soldiers were seriously wounded in a Hezbollah attack in the Ali Taher ridge area of southern Lebanon overnight. The office said the Israel Defense Forces responded with airstrikes. The strikes killed at least seven people, including three children and two women, outside the town of Ansar. Netanyahu’s office claimed “Hezbollah deliberately put civilians in that military compound.” UPDATE 1605 GMT: Yemen’s port of al-Makha has suspended commercial and maritime operations after being hit by more than 25 missiles in Houthi attacks. The strikes killed seven people and caused an estimated $16 million in damage. UPDATE 1112 GMT: Israel’s airstrikes have killed at least two more people and wounded another nine in Deir al-Zahrani in southern Lebanon. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said earlier Israeli strikes that killed seven people, including three children, were “extremely dangerous” and undermined efforts to establish stability in the south. “The seven martyrs in the Israeli strike on Ansar town were not ‘military infrastructure’, and the children and women killed were not military targets,” Salam emphasized. UPDATE 0522 GMT: Three Israeli airstrikes have killed seven people, including three children, and wounded three outside the town of Ansar in the Nabatieh district in southern Lebanon. Civil defense officials say the death toll is preliminary as rescue operations continue. Israeli forces continue to dismantle homes and other sites as they establish a zone of occupation. The latest operations are in and near Bint Jbeil, with the demolition of houses and firing of heavy machineguns towards residential areas. Israeli warplanes launched an air strike on the al-Mashaa neighbourhood in the town of al-Mansouri in the Tyre district. UPDATE 0518 GMT: Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran has not decided to restart talks with the US. Messages being exchanged via Qatar and Pakistan do not amount to negotiations, Araghchi emphasized. The Foreign Minister reiterated that, after talks with Oman define a route through the Strait of Hormuz, the US will have to meet conditions for shipping to resume through the waterway. UPDATE, AUG 15: The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday evening. There were no casualties. UPDATE 2030 GMT: A Houthi attack on Yemen’s port city of Mokha killed six people, two of them security personnel. The insurgents fired five missiles at commercial ships, setting two on fire. UPDATE 1635 GMT: Only two vessels have passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday: a grain ship entering Iranian waters and an empty dry bulk ship going in the other direction. A separate empty liquefied petroleum products tanker is sailing into the Persian Gulf via the Strait. Nine vessels passed through the waterway on Thursday, up from five on Wednesday but below the average of 12 for August. Before the US-Israel War on Iran, around 135 ships crossed the Strait daily. UPDATE 0912 GMT: The UAE has blamed Iran for attacks in the Strait of Hormuz on two vessels linked to State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. There were no injuries and the situation was “brought under control”. The Gulf Cooperation Council has also expressed condemnation. Secretary General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi said the GCC “strongly condemns the brutal Iranian attack”. He emphasized that “the repeated targeting of navigation, facilities, and properties constitutes an unacceptable escalation and a grave violation of international law”. ORIGINAL ENTRY: The US has lost at least 45 of its MQ-9 Reaper drones, around 25% of its fleet, in its War on Iran. “Three US officials familiar with the matter” confirmed the losses. They compound American shortages of missiles and munitions, including of air defense interceptors and offensive missiles, which have limited the Trump Administration’s options almost six months into its war. The Reaper, which conducts surveillance and targeted strikes, costs between $30 million and $50 million depending on its sensors and weapons. The potential cost of recent losses is more than $1.3 billion. The US military has around 185 Reapers, 165 in the Air Force and 20 in the Marine Corps. Others are operated by American intelligence agencies. The drone has been used around the Strait of Hormuz, controlled by Iran. Because it flies slowly and often at low altitudes, it is vulnerable to interception by the Iranians, Yemen’s Houthis, and Tehran-backed militias in Iraq. A fourth US official said some of the Reapers crashed after their operators’ communications link failed. The US has expended more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles and more than 1,000 Patriot and THAAD missiles during the war, cutting deeply into stockpiles. Donald Trump has insisted that the US faces no shortage of weapons, even as he has pulled back from wider strikes inside Iran. But in May, Lt. Gen. David Tabor told the Senate that the number of remaining Reapers had fallen to about 135. He said he was “concerned” and the Air Force was exploring how to replenish its fleet quickly.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry claims Tehran has reached an agreement with Oman on the route for the Strait of Hormuz after technical negotiations.

Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said, “Despite US obstruction, the talks have made positive progress over the past three weeks and an agreement has been reached on the shipping route map.”

Baghaei said the two sides were negotiating outstanding issues, including a joint statement.

UPDATE 1613 GMT: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says three soldiers were seriously wounded in a Hezbollah attack in the Ali Taher ridge area of southern Lebanon overnight. The office said the Israel Defense Forces responded with airstrikes. The strikes killed at least seven people, including three children and two women, outside the town of Ansar. Netanyahu’s office claimed “Hezbollah deliberately put civilians in that military compound.” UPDATE 1605 GMT: Yemen’s port of al-Makha has suspended commercial and maritime operations after being hit by more than 25 missiles in Houthi attacks. The strikes killed seven people and caused an estimated $16 million in damage. UPDATE 1112 GMT: Israel’s airstrikes have killed at least two more people and wounded another nine in Deir al-Zahrani in southern Lebanon. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said earlier Israeli strikes that killed seven people, including three children, were “extremely dangerous” and undermined efforts to establish stability in the south. “The seven martyrs in the Israeli strike on Ansar town were not ‘military infrastructure’, and the children and women killed were not military targets,” Salam emphasized. UPDATE 0522 GMT: Three Israeli airstrikes have killed seven people, including three children, and wounded three outside the town of Ansar in the Nabatieh district in southern Lebanon. Civil defense officials say the death toll is preliminary as rescue operations continue. Israeli forces continue to dismantle homes and other sites as they establish a zone of occupation. The latest operations are in and near Bint Jbeil, with the demolition of houses and firing of heavy machineguns towards residential areas. Israeli warplanes launched an air strike on the al-Mashaa neighbourhood in the town of al-Mansouri in the Tyre district. UPDATE 0518 GMT: Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran has not decided to restart talks with the US. Messages being exchanged via Qatar and Pakistan do not amount to negotiations, Araghchi emphasized. The Foreign Minister reiterated that, after talks with Oman define a route through the Strait of Hormuz, the US will have to meet conditions for shipping to resume through the waterway. UPDATE, AUG 15: The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday evening. There were no casualties. UPDATE 2030 GMT: A Houthi attack on Yemen’s port city of Mokha killed six people, two of them security personnel. The insurgents fired five missiles at commercial ships, setting two on fire. UPDATE 1635 GMT: Only two vessels have passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday: a grain ship entering Iranian waters and an empty dry bulk ship going in the other direction. A separate empty liquefied petroleum products tanker is sailing into the Persian Gulf via the Strait. Nine vessels passed through the waterway on Thursday, up from five on Wednesday but below the average of 12 for August. Before the US-Israel War on Iran, around 135 ships crossed the Strait daily. UPDATE 0912 GMT: The UAE has blamed Iran for attacks in the Strait of Hormuz on two vessels linked to State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. There were no injuries and the situation was “brought under control”. The Gulf Cooperation Council has also expressed condemnation. Secretary General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi said the GCC “strongly condemns the brutal Iranian attack”. He emphasized that “the repeated targeting of navigation, facilities, and properties constitutes an unacceptable escalation and a grave violation of international law”. ORIGINAL ENTRY: The US has lost at least 45 of its MQ-9 Reaper drones, around 25% of its fleet, in its War on Iran. “Three US officials familiar with the matter” confirmed the losses. They compound American shortages of missiles and munitions, including of air defense interceptors and offensive missiles, which have limited the Trump Administration’s options almost six months into its war. The Reaper, which conducts surveillance and targeted strikes, costs between $30 million and $50 million depending on its sensors and weapons. The potential cost of recent losses is more than $1.3 billion. The US military has around 185 Reapers, 165 in the Air Force and 20 in the Marine Corps. Others are operated by American intelligence agencies. The drone has been used around the Strait of Hormuz, controlled by Iran. Because it flies slowly and often at low altitudes, it is vulnerable to interception by the Iranians, Yemen’s Houthis, and Tehran-backed militias in Iraq. A fourth US official said some of the Reapers crashed after their operators’ communications link failed. The US has expended more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles and more than 1,000 Patriot and THAAD missiles during the war, cutting deeply into stockpiles. Donald Trump has insisted that the US faces no shortage of weapons, even as he has pulled back from wider strikes inside Iran. But in May, Lt. Gen. David Tabor told the Senate that the number of remaining Reapers had fallen to about 135. He said he was “concerned” and the Air Force was exploring how to replenish its fleet quickly.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says three soldiers were seriously wounded in a Hezbollah attack in the Ali Taher ridge area of southern Lebanon overnight.

The office said the Israel Defense Forces responded with airstrikes.

The strikes killed at least seven people, including three children and two women, outside the town of Ansar. Netanyahu’s office claimed “Hezbollah deliberately put civilians in that military compound.”

UPDATE 1605 GMT: Yemen’s port of al-Makha has suspended commercial and maritime operations after being hit by more than 25 missiles in Houthi attacks. The strikes killed seven people and caused an estimated $16 million in damage. UPDATE 1112 GMT: Israel’s airstrikes have killed at least two more people and wounded another nine in Deir al-Zahrani in southern Lebanon. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said earlier Israeli strikes that killed seven people, including three children, were “extremely dangerous” and undermined efforts to establish stability in the south. “The seven martyrs in the Israeli strike on Ansar town were not ‘military infrastructure’, and the children and women killed were not military targets,” Salam emphasized. UPDATE 0522 GMT: Three Israeli airstrikes have killed seven people, including three children, and wounded three outside the town of Ansar in the Nabatieh district in southern Lebanon. Civil defense officials say the death toll is preliminary as rescue operations continue. Israeli forces continue to dismantle homes and other sites as they establish a zone of occupation. The latest operations are in and near Bint Jbeil, with the demolition of houses and firing of heavy machineguns towards residential areas. Israeli warplanes launched an air strike on the al-Mashaa neighbourhood in the town of al-Mansouri in the Tyre district. UPDATE 0518 GMT: Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran has not decided to restart talks with the US. Messages being exchanged via Qatar and Pakistan do not amount to negotiations, Araghchi emphasized. The Foreign Minister reiterated that, after talks with Oman define a route through the Strait of Hormuz, the US will have to meet conditions for shipping to resume through the waterway. UPDATE, AUG 15: The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday evening. There were no casualties. UPDATE 2030 GMT: A Houthi attack on Yemen’s port city of Mokha killed six people, two of them security personnel. The insurgents fired five missiles at commercial ships, setting two on fire. UPDATE 1635 GMT: Only two vessels have passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday: a grain ship entering Iranian waters and an empty dry bulk ship going in the other direction. A separate empty liquefied petroleum products tanker is sailing into the Persian Gulf via the Strait. Nine vessels passed through the waterway on Thursday, up from five on Wednesday but below the average of 12 for August. Before the US-Israel War on Iran, around 135 ships crossed the Strait daily. UPDATE 0912 GMT: The UAE has blamed Iran for attacks in the Strait of Hormuz on two vessels linked to State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. There were no injuries and the situation was “brought under control”. The Gulf Cooperation Council has also expressed condemnation. Secretary General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi said the GCC “strongly condemns the brutal Iranian attack”. He emphasized that “the repeated targeting of navigation, facilities, and properties constitutes an unacceptable escalation and a grave violation of international law”. ORIGINAL ENTRY: The US has lost at least 45 of its MQ-9 Reaper drones, around 25% of its fleet, in its War on Iran. “Three US officials familiar with the matter” confirmed the losses. They compound American shortages of missiles and munitions, including of air defense interceptors and offensive missiles, which have limited the Trump Administration’s options almost six months into its war. The Reaper, which conducts surveillance and targeted strikes, costs between $30 million and $50 million depending on its sensors and weapons. The potential cost of recent losses is more than $1.3 billion. The US military has around 185 Reapers, 165 in the Air Force and 20 in the Marine Corps. Others are operated by American intelligence agencies. The drone has been used around the Strait of Hormuz, controlled by Iran. Because it flies slowly and often at low altitudes, it is vulnerable to interception by the Iranians, Yemen’s Houthis, and Tehran-backed militias in Iraq. A fourth US official said some of the Reapers crashed after their operators’ communications link failed. The US has expended more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles and more than 1,000 Patriot and THAAD missiles during the war, cutting deeply into stockpiles. Donald Trump has insisted that the US faces no shortage of weapons, even as he has pulled back from wider strikes inside Iran. But in May, Lt. Gen. David Tabor told the Senate that the number of remaining Reapers had fallen to about 135. He said he was “concerned” and the Air Force was exploring how to replenish its fleet quickly.

Yemen’s port of al-Makha has suspended commercial and maritime operations after being hit by more than 25 missiles in Houthi attacks.

The strikes killed seven people and caused an estimated $16 million in damage.

UPDATE 1112 GMT: Israel’s airstrikes have killed at least two more people and wounded another nine in Deir al-Zahrani in southern Lebanon. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said earlier Israeli strikes that killed seven people, including three children, were “extremely dangerous” and undermined efforts to establish stability in the south. “The seven martyrs in the Israeli strike on Ansar town were not ‘military infrastructure’, and the children and women killed were not military targets,” Salam emphasized. UPDATE 0522 GMT: Three Israeli airstrikes have killed seven people, including three children, and wounded three outside the town of Ansar in the Nabatieh district in southern Lebanon. Civil defense officials say the death toll is preliminary as rescue operations continue. Israeli forces continue to dismantle homes and other sites as they establish a zone of occupation. The latest operations are in and near Bint Jbeil, with the demolition of houses and firing of heavy machineguns towards residential areas. Israeli warplanes launched an air strike on the al-Mashaa neighbourhood in the town of al-Mansouri in the Tyre district. UPDATE 0518 GMT: Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran has not decided to restart talks with the US. Messages being exchanged via Qatar and Pakistan do not amount to negotiations, Araghchi emphasized. The Foreign Minister reiterated that, after talks with Oman define a route through the Strait of Hormuz, the US will have to meet conditions for shipping to resume through the waterway. UPDATE, AUG 15: The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday evening. There were no casualties. UPDATE 2030 GMT: A Houthi attack on Yemen’s port city of Mokha killed six people, two of them security personnel. The insurgents fired five missiles at commercial ships, setting two on fire. UPDATE 1635 GMT: Only two vessels have passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday: a grain ship entering Iranian waters and an empty dry bulk ship going in the other direction. A separate empty liquefied petroleum products tanker is sailing into the Persian Gulf via the Strait. Nine vessels passed through the waterway on Thursday, up from five on Wednesday but below the average of 12 for August. Before the US-Israel War on Iran, around 135 ships crossed the Strait daily. UPDATE 0912 GMT: The UAE has blamed Iran for attacks in the Strait of Hormuz on two vessels linked to State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. There were no injuries and the situation was “brought under control”. The Gulf Cooperation Council has also expressed condemnation. Secretary General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi said the GCC “strongly condemns the brutal Iranian attack”. He emphasized that “the repeated targeting of navigation, facilities, and properties constitutes an unacceptable escalation and a grave violation of international law”. ORIGINAL ENTRY: The US has lost at least 45 of its MQ-9 Reaper drones, around 25% of its fleet, in its War on Iran. “Three US officials familiar with the matter” confirmed the losses. They compound American shortages of missiles and munitions, including of air defense interceptors and offensive missiles, which have limited the Trump Administration’s options almost six months into its war. The Reaper, which conducts surveillance and targeted strikes, costs between $30 million and $50 million depending on its sensors and weapons. The potential cost of recent losses is more than $1.3 billion. The US military has around 185 Reapers, 165 in the Air Force and 20 in the Marine Corps. Others are operated by American intelligence agencies. The drone has been used around the Strait of Hormuz, controlled by Iran. Because it flies slowly and often at low altitudes, it is vulnerable to interception by the Iranians, Yemen’s Houthis, and Tehran-backed militias in Iraq. A fourth US official said some of the Reapers crashed after their operators’ communications link failed. The US has expended more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles and more than 1,000 Patriot and THAAD missiles during the war, cutting deeply into stockpiles. Donald Trump has insisted that the US faces no shortage of weapons, even as he has pulled back from wider strikes inside Iran. But in May, Lt. Gen. David Tabor told the Senate that the number of remaining Reapers had fallen to about 135. He said he was “concerned” and the Air Force was exploring how to replenish its fleet quickly.

Israel’s airstrikes have killed at least two more people and wounded another nine in Deir al-Zahrani in southern Lebanon.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said earlier Israeli strikes that killed seven people, including three children, were “extremely dangerous” and undermined efforts to establish stability in the south.

“The seven martyrs in the Israeli strike on Ansar town were not ‘military infrastructure’, and the children and women killed were not military targets,” Salam emphasized.

UPDATE 0522 GMT: Three Israeli airstrikes have killed seven people, including three children, and wounded three outside the town of Ansar in the Nabatieh district in southern Lebanon. Civil defense officials say the death toll is preliminary as rescue operations continue. Israeli forces continue to dismantle homes and other sites as they establish a zone of occupation. The latest operations are in and near Bint Jbeil, with the demolition of houses and firing of heavy machineguns towards residential areas. Israeli warplanes launched an air strike on the al-Mashaa neighbourhood in the town of al-Mansouri in the Tyre district. UPDATE 0518 GMT: Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran has not decided to restart talks with the US. Messages being exchanged via Qatar and Pakistan do not amount to negotiations, Araghchi emphasized. The Foreign Minister reiterated that, after talks with Oman define a route through the Strait of Hormuz, the US will have to meet conditions for shipping to resume through the waterway. UPDATE, AUG 15: The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday evening. There were no casualties. UPDATE 2030 GMT: A Houthi attack on Yemen’s port city of Mokha killed six people, two of them security personnel. The insurgents fired five missiles at commercial ships, setting two on fire. UPDATE 1635 GMT: Only two vessels have passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday: a grain ship entering Iranian waters and an empty dry bulk ship going in the other direction. A separate empty liquefied petroleum products tanker is sailing into the Persian Gulf via the Strait. Nine vessels passed through the waterway on Thursday, up from five on Wednesday but below the average of 12 for August. Before the US-Israel War on Iran, around 135 ships crossed the Strait daily. UPDATE 0912 GMT: The UAE has blamed Iran for attacks in the Strait of Hormuz on two vessels linked to State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. There were no injuries and the situation was “brought under control”. The Gulf Cooperation Council has also expressed condemnation. Secretary General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi said the GCC “strongly condemns the brutal Iranian attack”. He emphasized that “the repeated targeting of navigation, facilities, and properties constitutes an unacceptable escalation and a grave violation of international law”. ORIGINAL ENTRY: The US has lost at least 45 of its MQ-9 Reaper drones, around 25% of its fleet, in its War on Iran. “Three US officials familiar with the matter” confirmed the losses. They compound American shortages of missiles and munitions, including of air defense interceptors and offensive missiles, which have limited the Trump Administration’s options almost six months into its war. The Reaper, which conducts surveillance and targeted strikes, costs between $30 million and $50 million depending on its sensors and weapons. The potential cost of recent losses is more than $1.3 billion. The US military has around 185 Reapers, 165 in the Air Force and 20 in the Marine Corps. Others are operated by American intelligence agencies. The drone has been used around the Strait of Hormuz, controlled by Iran. Because it flies slowly and often at low altitudes, it is vulnerable to interception by the Iranians, Yemen’s Houthis, and Tehran-backed militias in Iraq. A fourth US official said some of the Reapers crashed after their operators’ communications link failed. The US has expended more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles and more than 1,000 Patriot and THAAD missiles during the war, cutting deeply into stockpiles. Donald Trump has insisted that the US faces no shortage of weapons, even as he has pulled back from wider strikes inside Iran. But in May, Lt. Gen. David Tabor told the Senate that the number of remaining Reapers had fallen to about 135. He said he was “concerned” and the Air Force was exploring how to replenish its fleet quickly.

Three Israeli airstrikes have killed seven people, including three children, and wounded three outside the town of Ansar in the Nabatieh district in southern Lebanon.

Civil defense officials say the death toll is preliminary as rescue operations continue.

Israeli forces continue to dismantle homes and other sites as they establish a zone of occupation. The latest operations are in and near Bint Jbeil, with the demolition of houses and firing of heavy machineguns towards residential areas.

Israeli warplanes launched an air strike on the al-Mashaa neighbourhood in the town of al-Mansouri in the Tyre district.

UPDATE 0518 GMT: Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran has not decided to restart talks with the US. Messages being exchanged via Qatar and Pakistan do not amount to negotiations, Araghchi emphasized. The Foreign Minister reiterated that, after talks with Oman define a route through the Strait of Hormuz, the US will have to meet conditions for shipping to resume through the waterway. UPDATE, AUG 15: The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday evening. There were no casualties. UPDATE 2030 GMT: A Houthi attack on Yemen’s port city of Mokha killed six people, two of them security personnel. The insurgents fired five missiles at commercial ships, setting two on fire. UPDATE 1635 GMT: Only two vessels have passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday: a grain ship entering Iranian waters and an empty dry bulk ship going in the other direction. A separate empty liquefied petroleum products tanker is sailing into the Persian Gulf via the Strait. Nine vessels passed through the waterway on Thursday, up from five on Wednesday but below the average of 12 for August. Before the US-Israel War on Iran, around 135 ships crossed the Strait daily. UPDATE 0912 GMT: The UAE has blamed Iran for attacks in the Strait of Hormuz on two vessels linked to State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. There were no injuries and the situation was “brought under control”. The Gulf Cooperation Council has also expressed condemnation. Secretary General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi said the GCC “strongly condemns the brutal Iranian attack”. He emphasized that “the repeated targeting of navigation, facilities, and properties constitutes an unacceptable escalation and a grave violation of international law”. ORIGINAL ENTRY: The US has lost at least 45 of its MQ-9 Reaper drones, around 25% of its fleet, in its War on Iran. “Three US officials familiar with the matter” confirmed the losses. They compound American shortages of missiles and munitions, including of air defense interceptors and offensive missiles, which have limited the Trump Administration’s options almost six months into its war. The Reaper, which conducts surveillance and targeted strikes, costs between $30 million and $50 million depending on its sensors and weapons. The potential cost of recent losses is more than $1.3 billion. The US military has around 185 Reapers, 165 in the Air Force and 20 in the Marine Corps. Others are operated by American intelligence agencies. The drone has been used around the Strait of Hormuz, controlled by Iran. Because it flies slowly and often at low altitudes, it is vulnerable to interception by the Iranians, Yemen’s Houthis, and Tehran-backed militias in Iraq. A fourth US official said some of the Reapers crashed after their operators’ communications link failed. The US has expended more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles and more than 1,000 Patriot and THAAD missiles during the war, cutting deeply into stockpiles. Donald Trump has insisted that the US faces no shortage of weapons, even as he has pulled back from wider strikes inside Iran. But in May, Lt. Gen. David Tabor told the Senate that the number of remaining Reapers had fallen to about 135. He said he was “concerned” and the Air Force was exploring how to replenish its fleet quickly.

Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran has not decided to restart talks with the US.

Messages being exchanged via Qatar and Pakistan do not amount to negotiations, Araghchi emphasized.

The Foreign Minister reiterated that, after talks with Oman define a route through the Strait of Hormuz, the US will have to meet conditions for shipping to resume through the waterway.

UPDATE, AUG 15: The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday evening. There were no casualties. UPDATE 2030 GMT: A Houthi attack on Yemen’s port city of Mokha killed six people, two of them security personnel. The insurgents fired five missiles at commercial ships, setting two on fire. UPDATE 1635 GMT: Only two vessels have passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday: a grain ship entering Iranian waters and an empty dry bulk ship going in the other direction. A separate empty liquefied petroleum products tanker is sailing into the Persian Gulf via the Strait. Nine vessels passed through the waterway on Thursday, up from five on Wednesday but below the average of 12 for August. Before the US-Israel War on Iran, around 135 ships crossed the Strait daily. UPDATE 0912 GMT: The UAE has blamed Iran for attacks in the Strait of Hormuz on two vessels linked to State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. There were no injuries and the situation was “brought under control”. The Gulf Cooperation Council has also expressed condemnation. Secretary General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi said the GCC “strongly condemns the brutal Iranian attack”. He emphasized that “the repeated targeting of navigation, facilities, and properties constitutes an unacceptable escalation and a grave violation of international law”. ORIGINAL ENTRY: The US has lost at least 45 of its MQ-9 Reaper drones, around 25% of its fleet, in its War on Iran. “Three US officials familiar with the matter” confirmed the losses. They compound American shortages of missiles and munitions, including of air defense interceptors and offensive missiles, which have limited the Trump Administration’s options almost six months into its war. The Reaper, which conducts surveillance and targeted strikes, costs between $30 million and $50 million depending on its sensors and weapons. The potential cost of recent losses is more than $1.3 billion. The US military has around 185 Reapers, 165 in the Air Force and 20 in the Marine Corps. Others are operated by American intelligence agencies. The drone has been used around the Strait of Hormuz, controlled by Iran. Because it flies slowly and often at low altitudes, it is vulnerable to interception by the Iranians, Yemen’s Houthis, and Tehran-backed militias in Iraq. A fourth US official said some of the Reapers crashed after their operators’ communications link failed. The US has expended more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles and more than 1,000 Patriot and THAAD missiles during the war, cutting deeply into stockpiles. Donald Trump has insisted that the US faces no shortage of weapons, even as he has pulled back from wider strikes inside Iran. But in May, Lt. Gen. David Tabor told the Senate that the number of remaining Reapers had fallen to about 135. He said he was “concerned” and the Air Force was exploring how to replenish its fleet quickly.

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday evening. There were no casualties.

UPDATE 2030 GMT: A Houthi attack on Yemen’s port city of Mokha killed six people, two of them security personnel. The insurgents fired five missiles at commercial ships, setting two on fire. UPDATE 1635 GMT: Only two vessels have passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday: a grain ship entering Iranian waters and an empty dry bulk ship going in the other direction. A separate empty liquefied petroleum products tanker is sailing into the Persian Gulf via the Strait. Nine vessels passed through the waterway on Thursday, up from five on Wednesday but below the average of 12 for August. Before the US-Israel War on Iran, around 135 ships crossed the Strait daily. UPDATE 0912 GMT: The UAE has blamed Iran for attacks in the Strait of Hormuz on two vessels linked to State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. There were no injuries and the situation was “brought under control”. The Gulf Cooperation Council has also expressed condemnation. Secretary General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi said the GCC “strongly condemns the brutal Iranian attack”. He emphasized that “the repeated targeting of navigation, facilities, and properties constitutes an unacceptable escalation and a grave violation of international law”. ORIGINAL ENTRY: The US has lost at least 45 of its MQ-9 Reaper drones, around 25% of its fleet, in its War on Iran. “Three US officials familiar with the matter” confirmed the losses. They compound American shortages of missiles and munitions, including of air defense interceptors and offensive missiles, which have limited the Trump Administration’s options almost six months into its war. The Reaper, which conducts surveillance and targeted strikes, costs between $30 million and $50 million depending on its sensors and weapons. The potential cost of recent losses is more than $1.3 billion. The US military has around 185 Reapers, 165 in the Air Force and 20 in the Marine Corps. Others are operated by American intelligence agencies. The drone has been used around the Strait of Hormuz, controlled by Iran. Because it flies slowly and often at low altitudes, it is vulnerable to interception by the Iranians, Yemen’s Houthis, and Tehran-backed militias in Iraq. A fourth US official said some of the Reapers crashed after their operators’ communications link failed. The US has expended more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles and more than 1,000 Patriot and THAAD missiles during the war, cutting deeply into stockpiles. Donald Trump has insisted that the US faces no shortage of weapons, even as he has pulled back from wider strikes inside Iran. But in May, Lt. Gen. David Tabor told the Senate that the number of remaining Reapers had fallen to about 135. He said he was “concerned” and the Air Force was exploring how to replenish its fleet quickly.

A Houthi attack on Yemen’s port city of Mokha killed six people, two of them security personnel.

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