The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) carried out, in the early hours of Tuesday, a third consecutive wave of strikes against Iran ordered by President Donald Trump, after the president warned the country would be hit “very hard” and said, “There is nothing they can do about it. They have nothing.” Hours later, the U.S. military command reported that the offensive targeted Iranian military capabilities linked to the Strait of Hormuz.
Soon 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, further missile and drone attacks against the Jufair naval base in Bahrain, home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet, and said it also struck an airbase in Jordan used by U.S. forces.
After the breakdown of the 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 that route to cover security costs. In response, Iran’s senior military leadership said Washington has no authority over the strait’s future, while Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi wrote on X: “Tehran will always be the guardian of the strait.”
Below is minute-by-minute coverage:
A Norwegian tanker exploded off the coast of Oman
A Norwegian tanker was struck by an explosion caused by an unidentified device off the coast of Oman in the early hours of Tuesday, with no casualties reported, MTI Network, a crisis management firm, said citing the shipping company.
At approximately 00:40 local time, the Stolt Magnesium, sailing in the Arabian Sea off Omani waters, “was struck by the explosion of an unidentified external device,” MTI Network said in a statement, quoting information provided by the shipowner Stolt Tankers.
The explosion caused a fire in the vessel’s engine room but, according to the same source, the crew is “fortunately safe and accounted for.”
The British agency UK Maritime Trade Operations indicated that a tanker reported being “hit by an unknown projectile in the engine room,” 40 nautical miles northeast of Qalhat, Oman.
U.S. sailors conduct flight operations aboard the USS George H.W. Bush
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) posted images on its X account showing American sailors conducting flight operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush.
“U.S. sailors conduct flight operations aboard the USS George H.W. Bush,” CENTCOM wrote in a brief caption accompanying a video.
The Gulf Cooperation Council secretary-general condemned Iran’s “terrorist” attacks
The secretary-general of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, Jasim Mohamed al Budaiui, condemned Iran’s “terrorist” attacks on Emirati tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, stressing that they represent a “blatant violation” and “serious breach” of the principles of international law and freedom of navigation.
“He expressed his strongest condemnation and denunciation of the Iranian attack against the tankers ‘Mombasa’ and ‘Al Bahia,’ owned by the United Arab Emirates, which caused the death of a crew member and injuries to several others,” Al Budaiui said in a statement.
He added that the “terrorist attack” against the Emirati vessels “constitutes a blatant violation and a serious breach of the principles of international law and the rules on freedom of maritime navigation,” and violates United Nations Security Council resolutions.
“The GCC stands united with the United Arab Emirates and supports all measures it takes to protect its security, sovereignty, facilities and vital interests,” the regional bloc’s secretary-general said, calling on the international community to “assume its legal and moral responsibilities and adopt a firm and deterrent stance against these serious and repeated Iranian attacks.”
Three Bahrainis sentenced to life imprisonment for spying for Iran
Bahrain’s High Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced three Bahraini nationals to life imprisonment after finding them guilty of spying for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and collaborating with that “terrorist group” to carry out “hostile actions” against the small Gulf kingdom.
The Terrorism Prosecution said in a statement that the sentences relate to two separate cases, but that the rulings were issued in a session held today in Manama by the cited court, part of a series of recent trials of dozens of Bahrainis accused of spying for or sympathizing with Iran.
The three convicted individuals, one tried in absentia, were charged “with espionage for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its collaborators, with the aim of aiding its hostile and terrorist acts against the Kingdom of Bahrain and harming its interests. The court sentenced them to life imprisonment and ordered the confiscation of seized items,” the statement said.
It detailed that among the accusations was “the provision to an electronic account managed by the terrorist group Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of videos of Iranian missile attacks against Bahrain,” as well as “locations and coordinates of vital sites inside the country so they could be attacked by the enemy.”
Iran reported U.S. strikes in a border area near Iraq and Kuwait
U.S. strikes hit an Iranian border area near Iraq and Kuwait on Tuesday, local authorities reported, amid intense fighting between the two countries.
The cities of Abadan, home to the Middle East’s oldest oil refinery, and the port city of Mahshahr were targeted by the attacks, Valiollah Hayati, deputy governor of Khuzestan province, told the state news agency IRNA.
Iranian authorities said the US struck the port city of Bushehr
U.S. strikes hit the port city of Bushehr on Tuesday, where Iran’s only civilian nuclear power plant is located, local authorities reported amid the escalation between Tehran and Washington.
“Four points in the city of Bushehr were hit by enemy projectiles at noon (08:30 GMT),” deputy provincial governor Ehsan Jahanian told the official news agency IRNA, attributing the attacks to the United States.
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The Iranian Army said it will not yield “an inch” on the Strait of Hormuz
The Iranian Army said the Armed Forces will not yield “an inch” on the Strait of Hormuz after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the reestablishment of a naval cordon against Iran and said the United States would assume the role of “guardian” of the waterway.
“The Armed Forces will not yield an inch on the Strait of Hormuz,” Army spokesman Brigadier General Mohamad Akraminia said, according to the Tasnim news agency.
The military spokesman said “the Strait of Hormuz will never be reopened through war, aggression or U.S. attacks” and added that respect for the rights of the Iranian people is the only path to reopening one of the most important sea routes for global energy trade.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Sunday declared a new closure of the Strait of Hormuz “until the end of U.S. interference in the region” and warned that any attempt to reopen the waterway would receive a military response.
In recent days, Iran has attacked several vessels near that strategic passage. The most recent of those attacks occurred early this morning against two United Arab Emirates tankers and caused one death and eight injuries.
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India summoned an Iranian diplomat after an attack in the Strait of Hormuz that left a sailor dead
The Government of India summoned the deputy head of the Iranian Embassy in New Delhi, Mustafa Goharifar, after an attack on two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz left one Indian sailor 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 the strategic waterway.
“We strongly condemn these attacks and acts of violence directed against seafarers and which 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. On the MT Mombasa there were 18 Indians, of whom nine were injured, two of them seriously, the Ministry of External Affairs said.
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Iran introduced a bill to manage the Strait of Hormuz and warns it will defend its “red lines”
Iran introduced a bill in 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 presented in the Iranian Parliament.”
The lawmaker said, “We remain firm in defending our red lines, particularly regarding management of the Strait of Hormuz.” He also anticipated further measures, stating: “This is the first step; subsequent 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 followed reports from the United Arab Emirates that two Emirati-flagged tankers were struck by Iranian missiles in the Strait of Hormuz, causing the death of a seafarer.
Jordan shot down four missiles originating from Iran
Jordan says 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 attacks against the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
It reported that the attacks caused a fire in the base’s fuel depots 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 uncrewed surface vessels (USVs).
“The reprisal operation continues,” the statement added.
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