Iran escalates attacks in Gulf striking one of the region’s major refineries in Kuwait

Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery, one of the largest in the Middle East, can process nearly 730,000 barrels of oil per day. Iran defiantly insisted Friday that it would deny its enemies their security and that it was still building missiles nearly three weeks into U.S.-Israeli strikes that have killed a slew of Tehran’s top leaders and hammered its weapons and energy industries.Iran fired on Israel and energy sites in neighboring Gulf Arab states as many in the region marked one of the holiest days on the Muslim calendar.With little information coming out of Iran, it was not clear how much damage its arms, nuclear or energy facilities have sustained since the war began Feb. 28 or even who was truly in charge of the country. But Iran has showed it is still capable of attacks that are choking off oil supplies and scrambling the global economy, raising food and fuel prices far beyond the Middle East.The U.S. and Israel have given a wide range of objectives in the conflict, from hoping to foment an uprising that topples Iran’s leadership to eliminating its nuclear and missile programs. There have been no public signs of any such uprising and it’s not clear what capabilities Iran retains, and so it remains unclear how or when the war will end.