U.S. 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 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.
After the overnight strikes, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed in the morning new missile and drone attacks against the Juffair 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.
Following the collapse 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 the United States would charge a 20% fee to vessels transiting the waterway 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, minute-by-minute coverage:
Netanyahu warned Iranian leaders that Israel will respond if attacked
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged a forceful response against Iran if Tehran carries out another attack against his country.
“I tell Iran’s leaders: do not expect calm if you attack us,” Netanyahu said at a conference. He added, “The days when someone attacked us and we did not respond with a decisive strike are over.”
Israel said it is willing to withdraw from two areas in southern Lebanon
Israel said it expects its talks in Rome with Beirut to help implement an agreement on two “pilot zones” in southern Lebanon, from which Israeli troops would withdraw.
Both countries, officially at war for decades, are negotiating under U.S. auspices amid a regional escalation between Washington and Tehran.
On June 26 they reached a framework agreement intended to end the war between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah and to pave the way toward peace.
But Hezbollah rejects the deal, which calls for the group’s disarmament and would begin with an Israeli withdrawal from two “pilot zones” in southern Lebanon.
The Lebanese presidency warned on Monday it will demand that withdrawal as a condition for further negotiations. Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, said his country is “willing to move forward with implementing those two pilot zones.”
“I hope and want to believe that this round of talks in Rome will facilitate that,” Saar told reporters in Jerusalem.
Oman reaffirmed its cooperation to restore navigation in Hormuz after attacks on ships
Oman’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated that Muscat maintains “transparent and neutral cooperation with all parties” to restore navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, following the bombing that caused significant damage to two Emirati tankers.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman reaffirms that Oman maintains its transparent and neutral cooperation with all parties to restore freedom of navigation in the strait, in full compliance with international law,” the ministry said in a brief statement.
It also confirmed its “firm commitment to its obligations as a signatory state to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea” and urged “all parties”—in an implicit reference to Iran—to “respect and abide by international law.”
The Strait of Hormuz lies between Iran and Oman, two countries that have held talks in recent months about managing this natural maritime passage. Tehran seeks to impose a transit fee while Muscat opposes it.
A Norwegian tanker exploded off the coast of Oman
A Norwegian tanker was hit by an explosion from 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 quoting the shipowner.
At about 00:40 local time the Stolt Magnesium, sailing in the Arabian Sea off Oman, “was struck by the explosion of an unidentified external device,” MTI Network said in a statement, citing information from 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.”
UK Maritime Trade Operations said 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 said in a short caption accompanying a video.
Gulf Cooperation Council chief denounced Iran’s “terrorist” attacks
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 they represent a “blatant violation” and a “serious breach” of international law and principles of maritime navigation.
“He expressed his strongest condemnation and denunciation of the Iranian attack on the tankers ‘Mombasa’ and ‘Al Bahia,’ owned by the United Arab Emirates, which resulted in the death of a crew member and injuries to several others,” Al Budaiui said in a statement.
He stressed that the “terrorist attack” on the Emirati vessels “constitutes a blatant violation and a serious breach of the principles of international law and the rules governing freedom of maritime navigation,” and also violates United Nations Security Council resolutions.
“The GCC stands united with the United Arab Emirates and supports all measures it adopts 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 take a firm and deterrent stance against these serious and repeated Iranian attacks.”
Three Bahrainis sentenced to life in prison for spying for Iran
Bahrain’s High Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced three Bahrainis to life imprisonment after finding them guilty of spying for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and collaborating with that “terrorist group” to carry out “hostile actions” against the small Gulf kingdom.
The Terrorism Crimes Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement these were two separate cases, but the sentences were handed down in a session held today in Manama by the court, part of a series of trials in recent weeks against 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 Iranian Revolutionary Guard and its collaborators, with the aim of assisting it in hostile and terrorist acts against the Kingdom of Bahrain and harming its interests. The court sentenced them to life imprisonment and ordered confiscation of seized items,” the statement said.
It detailed that the accusations include “providing to an electronic account managed by the terrorist group Revolutionary Guard videos of Iranian missile attacks against Bahrain,” as well as “locations and coordinates of vital sites inside the country to 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 close to Iraq and Kuwait on Tuesday, local authorities reported, amid heavy fighting between the two countries.
The city of Abadan, home to the oldest oil refinery in the Middle East, and the port city of Mahshahr were targeted, Valiollah Hayati, deputy governor of Khuzestan province, told the state news agency IRNA.
The Iranian regime said the U.S. 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 midday (08:30 GMT),” said provincial deputy governor Ehsan Jahanian to the official IRNA news agency, attributing the attacks to the United States.
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The Iranian military said it will not give “an inch” over the Strait of Hormuz
Iran’s Army said the armed forces will not give “an inch” on the Strait of Hormuz, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the reinstatement of a naval blockade against Iran and said the United States would act as the “guardian” of that maritime passage.
“The Armed Forces will not yield an inch over the Strait of Hormuz,” Army spokesperson Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia said, according to Tasnim news agency.
The military spokesman said “the Strait of Hormuz will never be reopened through war, aggression or attacks by the United States” and added that respecting the rights of the Iranian people is the only way to reopen one of the world’s most important energy trade routes.
The Revolutionary Guard declared a new closure of the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday “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 latest of those attacks occurred at dawn against two United Arab Emirates tankers and caused one death and eight injuries.
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India summoned an Iranian diplomat over an attack in Hormuz that left a sailor dead
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 an Indian sailor dead and ten others injured, a diplomat from the Iranian mission told EFE.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs later said it had lodged a “strong protest” with the Iranian diplomat over the attacks on the MT Al Bahiyah and MT Mombasa, which were transiting that strategic waterway.
“We strongly condemn these attacks and acts of violence directed at 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 carried a total of 30 Indian seafarers out of 46 crew members.
Of the 12 Indian citizens on board the MT Al Bahiyah, one died and another was injured. The MT Mombasa had 18 Indians on board, nine of whom were injured, two seriously, the Foreign Ministry said.
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Iran introduced a bill to manage the Strait of Hormuz and warns it will defend its “red lines”
Iran submitted a bill to Parliament to manage the Strait of Hormuz and warned it will defend its “red lines,” Ebrahim Azizi, chairman of the legislature’s National Security Commission, said.
In a message posted on 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 the management of the Strait of Hormuz.” He also anticipated further measures, saying: “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 announcement came after the United Arab Emirates reported 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 coming 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 on 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.
According to the IRGC, the attacks caused a fire in fuel storage at the base and struck and destroyed a Patriot radar, the fleet’s air traffic control radar, a C-RAM early-warning radar system and the control and monitoring center for unmanned surface vessels (USV).
“The retaliatory operation continues,” the statement added.
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