Kuwait's national oil company reported today that there were injuries and property damage following an Iranian attack that targeted an oil facility, according to the official news agency KUNA.
“A vital oil industry facility was targeted by repeated, brutal Iranian attacks, which caused several injuries and significant property damage,” the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation said, according to KUNA, clarifying that the facility was evacuated and the injured received medical care.
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Bombings continued to rage in the Middle East for the seventh consecutive night, with U.S. strikes killing at least three people in southern Iran and Tehran retaliating by targeting military sites in Kuwait and Jordan.
The U.S. military announced via X yesterday, Friday (Washington time; today at 04:39 Cyprus time) that it had “completed” a new wave of strikes in Iran, specifying that it had targeted “surveillance facilities,” “military logistics infrastructure,” “underground weapons depots,” and “naval capabilities.”
Authorities in Hormozgan Province, in southern Iran, announced that U.S. strikes had killed at least three people and wounded eight others, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported via Telegram.
Explosions were also heard in various other areas of southern and central Iran, according to Iranian media.
In retaliation, the Iranian military announced that it had targeted U.S. military bases in Jordan and Kuwait.
The day before, the U.S. military had reported that it had struck “dozens” of targets.
Eight people were killed in yesterday’s bombings, according to IRNA.
Iranian authorities reported damage to the power grid in the south and urged residents to reduce their electricity consumption, They also reported airstrikes targeting bridges, a port, an airport, telecommunications infrastructure, and a railway station. Washington has not confirmed this information.
Tankers “Caught Fire”
The Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s ideological army, announced that two oil tankers “exploded” and “caught fire” when they struck mines while crossing a mined area in the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. military denied this.
Donald Trump threatened this week to order the bombing of bridges and power plants in Iran, if the leaders of the Islamic Republic do not return to the negotiating table.
Tehran will launch a “full-scale offensive” if U.S. bombings continue for more than “two or three days,” Mohsen Rezaei, military affairs adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, warned yesterday.
The Revolutionary Guards warned that their strikes would “continue” until “calm is restored to the southern (Iranian) coast and the Strait of Hormuz.”
“The Strait of Hormuz is on the verge of becoming a trap for the two opposing sides. The logic of escalation is spiraling out of control,” says David Halfa, a Middle East expert at the Jean Jaurès Foundation, who is concerned about the “risk of a broader regional conflict.”
“My house was shaking”
In Qatar, a country that is mediating, the Revolutionary Guards reported that they targeted the U.S. base at Al Udeid, destroying radar systems and military aircraft to “punish” the U.S.
“I was in bed, I had almost fallen asleep when I heard the alarm,” Abu Bakr, a 27-year-old Sudanese government employee living in Qatar, told Agence France-Presse. “I was hoping it was out over the sea, but then explosions started to sound and my house was shaking,” he added, expressing concern that “this war is dragging on.”
Hostilities resumed on July 7, following attacks on commercial ships in the Gulf attributed to Iran. The bombings since then have been the most extensive since the ceasefire was declared in April and are undermining diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the armed conflict.
The war, which broke out on February 28 with U.S.-Israeli airstrikes against Iran, has claimed the lives of thousands of people, the vast majority of them in Iran and Lebanon, and continues to shake the global economy.
Oil prices continue to rise amid ongoing hostilities. North Sea Brent crude for September delivery was trading yesterday at $88.10 per barrel (+4.60%). A barrel of the U.S. benchmark WTI (West Texas Intermediate) for August delivery reached $82.49 (+4.48%).
The foreign ministers of China and Pakistan—the latter of which is also mediating the negotiations between Washington and Tehran — urged the two sides to resume talks under the “memorandum of understanding” they signed on June 17, which has now fallen apart.
Islamabad also reiterated its call for “the restoration of normalcy in the Strait of Hormuz,” which Tehran closed again last weekend. In retaliation, Washington announced that it is once again imposing a blockade on Iranian ports in the Gulf.
In another development, the President of Lebanon departed Beirut this morning for Washington, where he is expected to meet with Donald Trump on July 21, as announced by the presidency, following negotiations between Lebanon and Israel that concluded on Wednesday in Rome.
Joseph Aoun will also meet “with several U.S. officials to discuss the situation in Lebanon and ways to consolidate the ceasefire,” particularly in the south, as well as “Israel’s withdrawal from the Lebanese territories it occupies,” the presidency said in a statement.
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