A person holds a poster of the late Iranian Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a gathering commemorating him at a sq. in Tehran, Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — America attacked Iran early Sunday morning over an Iranian strike on a vessel within the Strait of Hormuz that set the container ship ablaze and compelled its crew to desert it. Iran apparently responded with assaults focusing on Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
The strait has develop into the important thing sticking level in any additional negotiations between Iran and the USA to discover a everlasting finish to the struggle that started again on Feb. 28. A couple of fifth of all traded oil and pure gasoline handed via the strait earlier than the struggle started. Iran’s grip on it throughout the struggle led to a worldwide vitality disaster, although oil costs have sharply dropped since wartime highs of $120 a barrel.
The U.S. army’s Central Command mentioned it hit some 140 targets within the strikes, way over the final two spherical, and went after missile and drone launch websites, ammunition dumps, communication gear and different websites.
The assaults “degrade Iran’s ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial vessels freely transiting the strait,” it mentioned.
The brand new crossfire within the Persian Gulf comes days after U.S. President Donald Trump prompt an interim deal within the Iran struggle was “over.”
U.S. Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on-line: “Iran made a poor choice. Now they pay.”
Bahrain, Qatar and UAE all attacked
The United Arab Emirates warned the general public Sunday of an incoming missile and drone assault as explosions could possibly be heard in close by Qatar. A missile alert sounded in Qatar shortly after the blasts. Qatar’s army mentioned in a press release it intercepted the incoming Iranian hearth.
In the meantime, missile alerts sounded in Bahrain, an island kingdom within the Persian Gulf dwelling to the U.S. Navy’s fifth Fleet.
It wasn’t instantly clear what places had been below assault within the UAE, which to this point hadn’t been focused within the newest spherical of assaults by Iran. The newest assault on the Emirates, dwelling to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, got here in Could when a drone sparked a hearth on the sting of the nation’s sole nuclear energy plant.
Within the Strait of Hormuz assault, a Cyprus-flagged container ship was hit by Iran and suffered “significant engineroom damage” and a civilian crew member is lacking, U.S. Central Command mentioned.
The UK Maritime Commerce Operations middle, overseen by the British army, mentioned the ship had been touring in a route hugging the shoreline of Oman. That is been the way in which ships have gotten out and in of the Persian Gulf whereas avoiding Iranian territorial waters. The ship’s crew deserted the vessel because it was ablaze, the middle mentioned.
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard mentioned a number of vessels “disregarded our warnings and instructions to correct their course and proceed along the approved route.” One in all them “was struck by a warning shot and brought to a stop.”
Iran mentioned that the strait would stay closed “until further notice” and mentioned it could think about focusing on “additional enemy bases in the region” if it confronted extra assaults.
The U.S. assaults on Iran apparently focused Bandar Abbas and Sirik, in addition to different areas, alongside the shores of the strait, Iran state media reported. Iran supplied no speedy details about casualties or injury.
Assaults adopted extra diplomatic talks in regards to the strait
The newest violence adopted Iran and Oman’s overseas ministers assembly on Saturday to debate the strait, after days of Iranian assaults on ships and U.S. retaliation that dealt a blow to the interim deal to finish the struggle. The slim strait sits in each Iran and Oman’s territorial waters, however lengthy has been thought-about a world waterway.
Oman mentioned it and Iran agreed to maintain speaking in regards to the Strait of Hormuz “at the technical and political levels.” Nevertheless, Iran supplied no assertion in regards to the strait being open to all — one thing sought by the Trump administration.
Iran’s new supreme chief, nonetheless unseen because the struggle started, additionally vowed in his first assertion because the funeral of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that Iranians would avenge his killing within the struggle’s opening strikes on Feb. 28.
Such revenge “is the will of our nation and must certainly be carried out,” Supreme Chief Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei mentioned in a press release carried on state televisions.
US questions who’s in cost in Iran
U.S. officers, talking Friday on situation of anonymity in regards to the present state of affairs with Iran, mentioned the resumption of strikes even earlier than the most recent spherical got here because of what they described as a rogue faction of Iranian hard-liners who had been making an attempt to sabotage the ceasefire.
Iran has insisted its theocracy is unified below the brand new supreme chief.
After the U.S. wrapped up strikes on Thursday, extra assaults reportedly hit Iran, elevating questions on who else could also be focusing on the Islamic Republic.
Israel did not declare them, which means the Gulf Arab states might have launched them, seemingly as a method to discourage Iran from attacking them once more. Iran on Thursday retaliated for U.S. strikes by focusing on Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Qatar.
The strikes in Iran over two rounds of strikes final week killed at the least 17 individuals and wounded 115 others, Iranian Well being Ministry spokesperson Hossein Kermanpour mentioned.
