In Photos: Week Seven Of The Iran War
- By RFE/RL
Prayers for peace, cease-fires, and an ongoing energy crisis dominated the seventh week of the conflict in the Middle East.
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A propaganda billboard in Tehran photographed on April 15 references the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz.
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General Dan Caine, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, displays a map of the Strait of Hormuz during a press briefing at the Pentagon on April 16. The US announced it would prevent all shipping from entering or exiting Iranian ports for "as long as it takes."
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Explosions from Israeli strikes seen in Nabatieh on April 16. The city in southern Lebanon has been targeted by the Israeli military in the past six weeks of war with Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militant group and political party that controls much of southern Lebanon.
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Relatives mourn at the April 12 funeral of four members of a family killed in an Israeli strike in Srifa, southern Lebanon.
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A deserted road in Islamabad on April 12 after authorities in the Pakistani capital restricted movement amid US-Iranian peace talks.
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Members of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan gather during the funeral of Ghazal Moulai in Iraq's Kurdistan region on April 16. The female fighter was killed when a drone struck members of the group, which opposes the Iranian regime, two days earlier.
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Christian worshippers pray for an end to the war in the Middle East during a "world peace" mass in a church in Baghdad, Iraq, on April 16.
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A queue of tanker trucks lined up along a highway in Syria on April 15. Iraq has begun exporting crude oil through Syria using trucks amid the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz that has restricted Middle Eastern oil exports.
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An Iranian woman walks her dog in an upmarket suburb of Tehran on April 15 during the cease-fire with the US.
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A shop worker in Karachi, Pakistan, packs up mannequins amid an early closure order. The Pakistani government has mandated shops close by 9 p.m. in a bid to conserve energy amid the Middle Eastern war.
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Cars clog the road near Tyre, southern Lebanon, on April 17 as displaced people return home after a 10-day cease-fire between Lebanon and Israel went into effect.
