(Snips from BBC latest summary on the Middle East)
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cje4x38q8xqt
Oil prices rise as strikes continue in Middle East - the latest
published at 19:04
19:04
As Asia kicks off a new week with another rise in oil prices, here's a look back at the last 24 hours.
Iran's parliament speaker said his country's forces are "waiting" for US ground troops so they can "rain fire upon them". His words came not long after the US announced that 3,500 soldiers are in the region with the USS Tripoli warship.
Oil prices have risen to more than $115 as markets opened in Asia
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Irans Ministry of Energy says attacks on the country's "electricity infrastructure" caused power cuts in parts of the Tehran and Albroz provinces, but power seems to have been restored in most areas
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Meanwhile in Lebanon, a Beirut-based American university is operating virtually after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened to target US and Israeli universities. It comes after two Iranian universities were struck in US-Israeli strikes on Saturday - the one in Isfahan was struck again on Sunday
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