Commuters stroll previous a wall mural alongside the road in Tehran on July 21, 2026.
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The U.S. army launched extra airstrikes on Iran early Wednesday as Iran hit again towards U.S. army targets within the Gulf and Jordan.
The assaults overshadowed diplomatic efforts in Pakistan, one of many battle’s mediators, the place Iranian Inside Minister Eskander Momeni visited for talks doubtlessly aimed toward reviving a collapsed ceasefire between the US and Iran.
U.S. Central Command mentioned it focused Iranian army operations facilities, maritime capabilities, plane hangars, drone storage services and army logistics infrastructure in its eleventh consecutive evening of assaults. It mentioned the assaults have been aimed toward degrading Iran’s management over the Strait of Hormuz — a significant delivery channel.
Iranian state media reported explosions in seven Iranian provinces and mentioned assaults included a strike on {an electrical} set up near a nuclear energy plant in Bushehr province.
Oil costs rose once more Wednesday within the opening of Asian markets, topping greater than $92 per barrel for benchmark crude after Iran attacked a tanker within the Strait of Hormuz.
The British army maritime operations middle mentioned a tanker was attacked Tuesday within the disputed space. The Strait of Hormuz is a slim channel in Iranian and Omani territorial waters however open underneath worldwide regulation to freedom of navigation. It has been successfully closed by Iran because the begin of the warfare.
President Trump reiterated his threats to Iran to not assault vessels within the strait or face U.S. strikes towards Iranian civilian infrastructure. “From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT, including those located next to, or in, the Capital City of Tehran,” he wrote on-line.
Contributing to market nervousness over international oil and fuel provides, Yemen’s Houthi rebels, backed by Iran, declared that Bab el-Mandeb, a Pink Sea waterway essential to Saudi Arabia’s exports, could be off limits to that nation. The group additionally warned worldwide delivery corporations to keep away from this waterway. It connects the Pink Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, and to the Suez canal and the Mediterranean Sea.
The Houthis’ Ansar Allah (Partisans of God) army and political motion controls the north and middle of Yemen, together with the capital Sanaa. An internationally acknowledged Yemeni authorities, supported by Saudi Arabia, controls the south.
The Shia Muslim Houthis are backed by Iran and a key a part of Iran’s “axis of resistance,” which has joined in assaults on U.S. and Israeli targets.
The Houthi-run information company mentioned six ships within the Pink Sea turned course on Tuesday after it issued the warning. Business delivery trackers mentioned a number of tankers loaded with Saudi oil backed out of the waterway to keep away from assault.
The newest spherical of strikes got here after President Trump instructed reporters Tuesday that the U.S. was planning to focus on a fortified underground web site close to one in all Iran’s predominant uranium enrichment services. Iranian state media mentioned Iran would take into account any assault on nuclear or “other sensitive facilities” a serious escalation.
Trump additionally mentioned that the Iranians “want to meet desperately to try and end it because they are getting decimated.” He added, “until they’re ready to meet in a meaningful way, we have no interest.”
In the meantime, Iran has mentioned that whereas it’s doubtlessly open to negotiations in the event that they safeguard Iran’s nationwide pursuits, it doesn’t belief the US.
Iran mentioned Wednesday it once more focused an air base in japanese Jordan the place three U.S. army personnel have been killed in an assault final week. Iran additionally hit the Sheikh Isa air base in Bahrain, a logistical hub for the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet.
The Pentagon recognized on Tuesday the third service member who was killed in Jordan as Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, 28, of Ozone Park, N.Y., bringing the variety of U.S. casualties killed throughout the Iran warfare to 18. She had been reported as lacking after the direct missile hit on Friday.
Iran’s authorities says about 3,000 folks in Iran, a lot of them civilians, have been killed within the warfare.
Iranian media reported that physique fragments of 32 victims of a bombing on an Iranian elementary ladies’ faculty practically 5 months in the past, recognized after DNA checks, have been laid to relaxation Wednesday. Iranian state-run Press TV mentioned they have been buried within the Minab cemetery.
Iranian tv footage confirmed a procession of pall-bearers carrying what seemed to be cardboard packing containers lined with Iranian flags.
Among the physique fragments have been simply tiny items of kids killed within the Feb. 28 airstrike, pieced collectively after months of trying to find stays and DNA testing.
Within the video, a sobbing girl sitting on the ground cradles and kisses a tiny shroud wrapped in white netting. Different mourners maintain photographs of among the lifeless youngsters.
Iran blames the U.S. for the missile strike on the primary day of the U.S.-Israeli warfare on Iran and says it killed at the very least 156 folks, together with 120 youngsters.
Impartial investigations, together with one carried out by Goldsmiths, College of London-based analysis group Forensic Structure and Sky Information, say that U.S. weapons apparently concentrating on a close-by army compound destroyed the varsity. The U.S. army has not launched outcomes of its investigation.
Iran says 168 college students and lecturers have been killed in a U.S. missile strike on the varsity in southern Iran on Feb. 28. The U.S. army says it’s investigating the assault.
Jordan mentioned it intercepted six Iranian missiles on Wednesday, with two of them falling in distant, uninhabited areas.
The Israeli army mentioned it detected an assault Wednesday on Aqaba, the Pink Sea resort in Jordan, instantly subsequent to the Israeli metropolis of Eilat, however didn’t intervene because the missile didn’t threaten Israel.
Iran attacked U.S. army targets on the Aqaba airport earlier this week.
Trump in remarks Tuesday appeared accountable Jordan – a small kingdom which is a U.S. safety ally – for the deaths of U.S. personnel on the distant Muwafaq al-Salti air base in north-eastern Jordan.
“They did slip something through in Jordan,” he mentioned, referring to Iranian missiles. “And if we had other operators, you know, would not have happened unfortunately.”
The U.S. operates its personal air defenses inside the Jordanian base, backed by the Jordanian air drive. It was not clear what Trump was referring to.
