Iran attacked U.S. military bases in the Middle East in the early hours of the morning, following a new wave of U.S. strikes on its territory—the second in just 24 hours.
“U.S. forces struck targets belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” including “air defense installations, radar systems, naval assets and facilities, mine-laying capabilities, and communications facilities,” according to a statement on X by the U.S. Joint Forces Command responsible for the Middle East (CENTCOM, “Central Command”), announcing the end of the bombing campaign.
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Iran announced that it had carried out “a decisive retaliatory operation,” targeting U.S. “bases and interests” in the region with missiles and attack drones, according to the state-run Tasnim News Agency.
The Revolutionary Guards subsequently announced that they had attacked U.S. bases in Jordan, Iraq, and Bahrain.
"If Tehran retaliates against this entirely justified attack, it will be struck again, much harder and more forcefully," U.S. President Donald Trump threatened via Truth Social.
The Jordanian armed forces announced that they had destroyed ten ballistic missiles launched from Iran, adding that three others fell in remote, uninhabited areas, with no injuries reported.
Kuwait also announced that it had been targeted by a missile and drone attack, while air raid sirens sounded in Bahrain early this morning, according to Agence France-Presse correspondents.
A spokesman for Iran’s central military command, Ebrahim Zolfaghari, promised “greater and more devastating retaliation” should U.S. attacks continue, warning “any country that cooperates with the attacking U.S. military.”
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According to the Iranian Red Crescent, four people, including a child, were killed and more than fifty others were injured as a result of a U.S. missile strike in southern Iran.
The U.S. bombings began a few hours after Iranian President Masoud Pezeskian proposed a return to diplomacy —even though negotiations have been at a complete impasse for some time now.
He assured that if the U.S. honors the commitments it made under the so-called Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, which was signed in mid-June but fell apart a few weeks later, “the Islamic Republic will immediately take reciprocal measures.”
State television reported yesterday on multiple explosions in the southern part of the country, near Bandar Abbas and on the island of Qeshm, in the Gulf, where one of Iran’s key oil export terminals is located.
Iranian state media also reported that an airport in southern Iran, in Kerman Province, was targeted.
Yesterday’s U.S. airstrikes took place after two very large oil tankers were struck by “missiles of unknown origin” as they were passing through this strategically vital strait, according to the Greek maritime risk management company MARISKS.
Hydrocarbon prices surged following the renewed hostilities. The price of a barrel of U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude surpassed the symbolic $90 mark for the first time since late July. In Europe, the price of natural gas reached a three-year high.
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The U.S. military also launched airstrikes on Sunday, for the first time after a month of relative calm, targeting military sites on an Iranian island. Iran retaliated with attacks against U.S. facilities in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
Iran intends to impose fees for services provided to ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz—where navigation was free before the war broke out.
For its part, the Trump administration is promising a campaign to bring about an economic “stranglehold” on Iran through sanctions, the form of which remains to be clarified.
Iranian authorities yesterday called for a reduction in fuel consumption, particularly gasoline, in the country, as Tehran faces difficulties with imports due to the naval blockade of Gulf ports imposed by the U.S. Navy.
Thousands of kilometers away, the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in Thailand this morning after more than nine months at sea, Agence France-Presse reporters confirmed.
After initially being deployed to the South China Sea, it was then ordered to sail to the Middle East at the start of the war in late February. The severe deterioration in living conditions for its crew members has recently sparked intense criticism in the U.S.
Source: APE-MPE
Four dead, including a child, and more than 50 injured due to a U.S. missile strike that hit a house where a wedding was taking place in southern Iran (Red Crescent)
