It started with the Israeli invasion of Gaza. In particular, after Iran’s attack on the offices of Israel’s intelligence agency in Iraq, there are fears that the conflict will spread. Attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea have not stopped.
In such a situation, the price of fuel oil increased on Tuesday (January 16). Brent crude rose 77 cents, or 0.99 percent, to $78.92 a barrel. Moreover, West Texas Intermediate rose 46 cents, or 0.63 percent, to $73.14.
Earlier, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched a missile attack on Mossad’s ‘headquarters’ in Iraq. At least four people were killed. At the same time, Iran also hit several ‘terrorist’ targets in Syria.
Iranian news agency IRNA, citing a statement by the IRGC, said that “a spy headquarters” and a “base of anti-Iranian terrorist groups” were destroyed in the attack on Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
In addition, the Houthi rebels attacked a US-owned cargo ship with ballistic missiles off the southern coast of Yemen. However, no major damage or casualties were reported in the attack on the Gibraltar Eagle ship.
