UN rights chief Volker Turk said he felt “deeply for the people in Iran, caught between war and cruel repression”.

“The area will be cleared of local residents, and all terrorist infrastructure, both above and below ground –including the houses in the frontline villages that served as terrorist outposts — will be destroyed.

Human rights lawyer and activist Deji Adeyanju has said that the alleged teargassing of Omoyele Sowore and other protesters on Democracy Day by security agents during a protest is a red flag for Nigeria’s democracy.

“He (Akpabio) is so paranoid about anything that has to do with me. Everybody in the Senate knows that if Senator Akpabio have his way, he will lock me out of the senate because he has misled himself into thinking that I am probably the devil he knows. There are many angels he doesn’t know,” he said.

The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most important oil shipping routes, and its reopening is expected to ease concerns in global energy markets.