U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) carried out a third consecutive wave of strikes against Iran in the early hours of Tuesday on orders from President Donald Trump, after he warned the country would be hit “very hard” and stated, “There is nothing they can do about it. They have nothing.” Hours later, the U.S. military command said the offensive targeted Iranian military capabilities linked to the Strait of Hormuz.
Shortly after the bombings, the United Arab Emirates reported that Iranian cruise missiles struck two Emirati tankers transiting the southern lane of the Strait of Hormuz, in Omani territorial waters. The attack left one crew member dead and eight people injured.
Following the nighttime strikes, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed on Tuesday morning to have launched additional missile and drone strikes against the Juffair naval base in Bahrain, the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, and said it also hit an air base in Jordan used by U.S. forces.
After the breakdown of a memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran and the resumption of hostilities last week, Trump said the strait would remain open “with or without Iran” and announced that the United States would charge a 20% fee to ships transiting the waterway to cover security costs. In response, Iran’s senior military leadership said Washington has no authority over the strait’s future, and Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi wrote on X: “Tehran will always be the guardian of the Strait.”
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India summoned an Iranian diplomat over an attack in Hormuz that left a sailor dead
The Government of India summoned the deputy head of Iran’s embassy in New Delhi, Mustafa Goharifar, after an attack on two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz left one Indian seaman dead and ten others injured, a diplomat from the Iranian mission told the EFE news agency.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs later said in a statement that it lodged a “strong protest” with the Iranian diplomat over the attacks on the vessels MT Al Bahiyah and MT Mombasa, which were transiting that strategic waterway.
“We strongly condemn these attacks and acts of violence directed against seafarers and that obstruct free and safe navigation through international waterways such as the Strait of Hormuz,” the Indian Foreign Ministry said.
According to New Delhi, the two ships together carried 30 Indian seafarers out of a total crew of 46.
Of the 12 Indian citizens aboard the MT Al Bahiyah, one died and another was injured. The MT Mombasa carried 18 Indians, of whom nine were wounded, two seriously, according to the Ministry of External Affairs.
A ship was struck by a missile off the coast of Oman
A tanker was struck by a missile off the coast of Oman amid the crossfire between the United States and Iran over control of the Strait of Hormuz, the U.K. maritime agency UKMTO reported on Tuesday.
“A tanker reported being struck by a missile while transiting outbound on the southern route. Authorities are investigating,” the agency said in a statement about the incident on Monday.
It was initially unclear whether this attack was the same one previously reported by the United Arab Emirates, which said two of its tankers were hit by Iranian missiles in the strait and that one crew member died.
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Iran submitted a bill to manage the Strait of Hormuz and warns it will defend its “red lines”
Iran has submitted a bill to parliament to manage the Strait of Hormuz and warned it will defend its “red lines,” Ebrahim Azizi, president of the Parliament’s National Security Commission, said.
In a message posted on the social network X, Azizi said: “Last night, coinciding with the downing of U.S. drones, the bill ‘Strategic Action for the Security and Sustainable Progress of the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf’ was formally submitted to the Iranian Parliament.”
The lawmaker said, “We remain firm in defending our red lines, particularly regarding the management of the Strait of Hormuz.” He added that “this is the first step; further measures will follow.”
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U.S. diplomatic missions in the United Arab Emirates cancel appointments
The U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi and the U.S. Consulate General in Dubai have canceled consular appointments through Wednesday due to the regional security situation, the embassy said in a security alert.
The notice came after the United Arab Emirates reported that two Emirati-flagged tankers were struck by Iranian missiles in the Strait of Hormuz, resulting in one sailor’s death.
Jordan shot down four missiles from Iran
Jordan said it intercepted and shot down four missiles that entered Jordanian airspace from Iranian territory, the state news agency reported.
Iran said it launched attacks against the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it launched missile and drone strikes against the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
It reported that the attacks caused a fire in the base’s fuel storage and struck and destroyed a Patriot radar, the fleet’s air control radar, a C-RAM early-warning radar system, and the control and monitoring center for unmanned surface vessels (USVs).
“The retaliatory operation continues,” the statement added.
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