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US strikes Iran’s Qeshm Island near Strait of Hormuz, risking wider conflict

US strikes Iran’s Qeshm Island near Strait of Hormuz, risking wider conflict
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US officials told the Wall Street Journal that the US struck Iran's Qeshm Island on Monday, near the Strait of Hormuz, after the IRGC fired on a US aircraft. Iranian state media reported explosions on the island. A strike near Hormuz raises the risk of disruption to Gulf oil flows and a wider regional conflict, which traders would read as a risk-off shock for crypto and other risk assets.

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