The price of a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard for oil, was up 0.9% at $89.67 early Wednesday. U.S. benchmark crude oil picked up 0.9% to $83.98.
Higher oil prices increase inflation, and they have sent the average cost for a gallon of regular gasoline to $4.01, according to AAA. That’s up from less than $3.14 a year ago.
President Trump told reporters Tuesday that he followed the direction of the Secret Servicewhen he secretly switched planesprior to taking off from Turkey last month after attending the NATO summit.
“It’s only up to the Secret Service,” Mr. Trump said in response to a question from CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes on the incident. “I just follow what they’d like to do, so I go by Secret Service and the military. They wanted me to go on a different flight, a different plane, equal safety, but they wanted me to do it, so I do it. I do what they say.”
CBS News previously reported that on the tarmac of Ankara’s airport on July 8, the president was secretly moved from Air Force One to another jet via an airport catering truck because U.S. intelligence had learned of a credible plot by Iran and its proxies to fire a missile at the plane Mr. Trump was departing Turkey from.
Asked by reporters Tuesday about the nature of the threat, Mr. Trump responded, “I guess there was a threat out there. I didn’t really ask too much about it. I get a lot of threats.”
A former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency on Tuesday claimed its spies had visitedIran’s Fordo nuclear site”many times” in the past in order to better understand the facility.
“We toured the Fordow nuclear site many times to understand the site,” Yossi Cohen, who led the Mossad between 2015 and 2021, said during a conference of local authorities on Tuesday, Israeli media reported.
Cohen, who is close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, didn’t elaborate on when exactly the visits took place or who made them.
InJune last year, Israel launched a war against Iran with the stated goal of degrading its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, which it said posed an “existential threat.”
المصدر: CBS News
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