Iranian armed forces launched strikes on U.S. military infrastructure in Gulf states on Thursday. The attacks followed U.S. strikes on Iran's southern coastal and eastern provinces. A three-week-old ceasefire was broken. Iranian media later reported multiple explosions across southern Iran, including Bushehr, where a nuclear plant is located, along with Konarak, Choghadak, and Bandar Abbas. A U.S. official said there had been no American strikes in recent hours.
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Subscribe Sekarang →The violence came as Iran buried its slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a shrine in Mashhad. It was the end of a week of funeral processions and rallies. Khamenei was killed in an airstrike on February 28 during a U.S.-Israeli barrage against Iran. That barrage set off a months-long conflict that has killed thousands and choked global energy supplies. Attacks on Qatari and Saudi shipping vessels earlier this week upended the truce. U.S. President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire "over."
According to a second U.S. official, Washington remains committed to a resolution and technical talks continue. The inability to end the war has frustrated the American president. His Republican Party faces midterm elections later this year amid high gas prices and voter discontent. At the holiest shrine in Mashhad, the crowd was large and dense. Some carried banners denouncing the American president. The banners read, "We Will Kill Trump."
The Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy said U.S. attacks and intervention in the Strait of Hormuz were disrupting the reopening of the waterway. The Guards stated that the number of vessels transiting the strait under Iranian supervision had recovered to about 50% of pre-war levels. Permission was being granted only to ships using routes designated by Tehran. Any further U.S. intervention will draw a "crushing response," the Guards said. The U.S. military said its strikes aimed to keep the strait open after accusing Iran of attacking three tankers.
Based on statements from U.S. Central Command on Wednesday, American forces struck approximately 90 Iranian military targets. These included air defense systems, coastal surveillance assets, and missile and drone storage sites. "This is in retribution for yesterday's bombing of ships by Iran. If it happens again, it will get much worse!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. The U.S. attacks killed 14 people and injured 78 across five provinces on July 8 and 9, Iranian state media reported. Fars news agency said one strike hit a rail bridge used for trade with Russia and China.
Bushehr is home to a Russian-built nuclear power plant. A local official told state media that a U.S. projectile hit the perimeter area of the facility. The perimeter had been hit several times before the April 8 ceasefire. Iran's army said in a statement that it had launched attacks on U.S. Patriot systems in Kuwait, an early-warning site in Qatar, and a U.S. Army fuel depot in Bahrain. Kuwait said its forces engaged a cruise missile, three ballistic missiles, and 10 drones in its airspace. One person was injured by falling shrapnel.
Sirens sounded in Jordan after missiles launched from Iran were detected, the state news agency reported. Eight were intercepted with no injuries or damage. The Revolutionary Guards later said Iran fired 10 ballistic missiles at Jordan's Azraq military base, which is used by U.S. forces, and at a U.S. military control center. Qatar condemned the attacks on commercial shipping but called for diplomacy. The foreign ministers of Turkey and Oman also stressed the need to avoid further military escalation in calls with their Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araqchi.
The Strait of Hormuz handled about a fifth of global oil supplies before the war. Tehran has since taken control of the strait, forcing a stalemate with the American military. "The Strait of Hormuz will be reopened only under Iranian arrangements, not through U.S. threats," Iran's top negotiator, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, wrote on X. Oil prices fell back on Thursday after a brief spike caused by concerns over global supplies.