The United States attacked Iran early Sunday over an Iranian strike on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz that set it ablaze and left one crew member missing. Iran responded with attacks targeting several countries in the Middle East, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan and Oman — the country on the other side of the strait that Tehran wants to join it in managing traffic there.
The fighting raised new questions about the interim deal Iran and the U.S. reached on June 17, beginning a 60-day period aimed at reaching a permanent end to the war. The midway point of that period comes within the week.
The strait, a key route for the global supply of oil and natural gas, has become the key sticking point in negotiations, and fighting over the past week has left negotiations in danger of collapse.
The U.S. military’s Central Command said it hit some 140 targets in Sunday’s strikes including missile and drone launch sites, ammunition dumps, communication equipment and other sites. It said the attacks, heavier than in recent days, would weaken Iran’s ability to threaten shipping.
“We bombed the hell out of them last night,” President Donald Trump told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Semiofficial Iranian news agencies reported that a navy officer was killed. Iran retaliated by attacking nations in the region hosting U.S. military forces, while insisting it alone must control the strait and potentially charge vessels for traveling through it.
“The era of one-sided deals is OVER,” Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s parliament and a main negotiator, wrote. “We told you: keep your word or pay the price. Reality is knocking.”
The U.S. has launched three rounds of airstrikes targeting Iran in the last week over Iranian attacks on ships heading through the strait using a route off Oman, seeking to avoid the Islamic Republic’s territorial waters.
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About a fifth of all traded oil and natural gas passed through the strait before the war began. Iran’s grip on it led to a global energy crisis, though oil prices have sharply dropped since wartime highs of $120 a barrel.
The U.S. military and Trump asserted that the strait remained open Sunday. Iran said the strait was closed until calm is restored, and it would consider targeting “additional enemy bases in the region” if it faced more attacks.
Oman summons Iranian envoy to protest attack
Missile alerts sounded across several Gulf Arab countries early Sunday.
Qatar’s military said it intercepted incoming Iranian fire, with explosions heard in the neighboring United Arab Emirates. Three people, including a child, were wounded as a result of shrapnel from the interception of Iranian attacks, Qatar’s Interior Ministry said, giving no further details on their condition.
Missile alerts sounded in Bahrain, an island kingdom in the Persian Gulf home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet. Kuwait’s military also said it was intercepting incoming fire.
The Omani state news agency said drones struck sites in an area that sits on the Strait of Hormuz and issued a shelter-in-place warning for residents in the region. The attack came a day after Oman and Iran held talks on the strait.
Oman summoned the Iranian ambassador to protest the strikes, the first such move since the war began, calling Iran’s acts “irresponsible.”
Three Iranian missiles struck areas across Jordan, causing minor damage but no injuries, Jordan’s state news agency reported.
Sirens also sounded in the UAE, but the government said missiles did not cross into its territory.
Iranian strike on ship harms Indian crew
A Cyprus-flagged container ship was hit by Iran and suffered “significant engine room damage,” the U.S. Central Command said.
Oman’s maritime authority said it rescued 23 crew members but one was missing. India’s Ministry of External Affairs said the missing man is an Indian national and it was working with Oman to locate him.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center, overseen by the British military, said the ship had been hugging Oman’s shoreline.
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said multiple vessels “disregarded our warnings” and ignored instructions to follow what it called an approved route. One “was struck by a warning shot and brought to a stop.”
Iranian state media later reported U.S. strikes across the country, including southern Iran in the province closest to the strait and military sites in a province near Tehran.
Attacks followed more diplomatic talks about the strait
The strait sits in both Iran and Oman’s territorial waters but has long been considered an international waterway.
Oman on Saturday said it and Iran agreed to continue discussing the strait “at the technical and political levels.” Iran offered no statement about the strait being open to all, something sought by the Trump administration.
Trump suggested last week that the interim deal in the war was “over.” But mediators, including Pakistan, Qatar and Egypt, have continued efforts to reach an agreement. A regional official involved in the mediation, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss those talks, said efforts to shore up the ceasefire continued Sunday.
Iran’s new supreme leader, still unseen since the war began, on Saturday vowed in his first statement since the funeral of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that Iranians would avenge his killing in the war’s opening strikes on Feb. 28.
Such revenge “is the will of our nation and must certainly be carried out,” Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said in a statement carried on state television.
Put some lipstick on carney I will make you my wife
My sister, mother and grandmother are three of my wives
I have to say, that while I do not like any of Trump’s actions, I do think the World would be a better place if Iran’s Caliphate were destroyed.
Hmmm…I guess I failed to realize that after the U.S. bombs Iran to oblivion, the people there will rise and finish off whatever might be left of the existing regime which they hate with a passion, and there would be a stop to the terrorism and funding of terrorist groups like Hezbollah and the Houthi’s.
I’m not that bright, but I do get paid above minimum wage by the Iranian IRCG.
My wives are two pigs, and two sheep
To those who think with their little head, bombing is always the answer. Hypothetically, let’s say the US bombs Iran into oblivion. Does that stop the drones? Does that not create the conditions for future terror attacks? We are dealing with a regime which is divided here and need to think strategically. Not sure if that’s possible for Trump and Hegseth tho.
And suddenly we can no longer comment on Israhell and its g*nocide. Global is going c*mmunist.
Why do you think folks hate Israhell? Could it be the mass g*nocide in which thousands of children have died? What better way to end a people than kill its children and women. That shouldn’t bring any h*te on should it?
President taco keeps saying iran has no military I guess he’s delusional like all the mega people
To the MAGA moron known as “iranian” – it’s past your bedtime, little boy. Turn off your mama’s computer and go upstairs.
Hi ima muslamb pig facker, please be my friend
Do you have any pigs for me to marry?
Do you have any pigs you need docked?
These f *ucking muslim pigs again and their death wish, atacking another ship. Just drop a few nukes on Tehran and vaporize them. Kill them all.
Let all the mourners join their supreme leader in hell, they can eat their gods anus out
@TryThis
You will have to look elsehwere for attention
I habe better things to do
Iran did not attack Arab states. It attacked US facilities in Arab states. It also attacked US supply depot, creating havoc.
Why the spin? You just give misinformation to people like Dave.
Time to wipe Iran off of the planet
Arab states have as much to gain as anyone else from their eradication