The United States 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. The president had warned that Iran 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 operation targeted Iranian military capabilities linked to the Strait of Hormuz.
Soon after the strikes, 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 on the Juffair naval base in Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is stationed, and said it also struck an air base in Jordan used by U.S. forces.
After the memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran failed and hostilities resumed last week, Trump said the strait would remain open “with or without Iran” and announced that the U.S. would charge a 20% fee to ships transiting the route to cover security costs. Iran’s senior military leadership responded that 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:
Texas crude rises 3.24% to $80
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose 3.24% on Tuesday to $80.67 per barrel after the United States struck Iran again and effectively resumed a naval blockade of the country.
At 09:00 local time (13:00 GMT), WTI futures for August, the U.S. benchmark contracts, were up $2.53 from Monday’s close.
Iranian authorities reported a new wave of strikes attributed to the United States against several southern cities, including Bandar Abbas, Bushehr and Abadan, hours after the early-morning U.S. strikes amid an escalation in hostilities. Projectile impacts were also reported in Abadan in the country’s southwest.
Iran, for its part, struck two Emirati vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, causing one crew death and eight injuries.
The Islamic Republic also responded to the U.S. bombings by launching missiles and drones at U.S. targets in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan in a third consecutive night of cross‐strikes between Washington and Tehran.
The conflict intensified last week after Trump declared the ceasefire framework with Iran, signed on June 17, over due to continued Iranian attacks on vessels in the Hormuz corridor.
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Netanyahu warned Iranian leaders that Israel will respond if attacked
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised a forceful response against Iran if Tehran launches another attack on Israel.
“I tell the Iranian leaders: do not expect the situation to remain calm if you attack us,” Netanyahu said at a conference. He added: “The days when someone attacked us and we did not respond decisively are over.”
Israel says it is willing to withdraw from two areas in southern Lebanon
Israel said it hopes talks in Rome with Beirut will help implement an agreement on two “pilot zones” in southern Lebanon from which Israeli forces would withdraw.
The two countries, formally 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 aimed at ending the war with the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and paving the way for peace.
Hezbollah rejects the deal because it requires the group’s disarmament; implementation would start with an Israeli withdrawal from the two pilot zones in southern Lebanon.
The Lebanese presidency warned on Monday that it will demand that withdrawal as a condition for further negotiations. Israeli 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 vessels
Oman’s Foreign Ministry reiterated that Muscat maintains “transparent and neutral cooperation with all parties” to restore navigation in the Strait of Hormuz after a strike 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 a veiled reference to Iran, to “respect and adhere to international law.”
The Strait of Hormuz lies between Iran and Oman, countries that have held talks in recent months on managing the shipping lane. Tehran wants to impose a transit fee while Muscat opposes that move.
Norwegian tanker exploded off Omani coast
A Norwegian tanker was hit by an explosion caused by an unidentified device off the coast of Oman in the early hours of Tuesday; there were no casualties, the crisis management firm MTI Network reported, citing the shipping company.
Around 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, quoting shipping company Stolt Tankers.
The blast started a fire in the ship’s engine room but, according to the same source, the crew is “fortunately safe and accounted for.”
British agency UK Maritime Trade Operations reported that a tanker indicated it had been “hit by an unknown projectile in the engine room” about 40 nautical miles northeast of Qalhat, Oman.
U.S. sailors conduct flight operations aboard USS George H.W. Bush
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) posted images on its X account showing U.S. sailors conducting flight operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush.
“U.S. sailors conduct flight operations aboard USS George H.W. Bush,” CENTCOM wrote in a brief caption accompanying a video.
Gulf Cooperation Council chief denounced Iran’s “terrorist” attacks
Jasim Mohamed al Budaiwi, Secretary General of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC), condemned Iran’s “terrorist” attacks on Emirati tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, calling them a “blatant violation” and a “serious breach” of international law and maritime navigation norms.
“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 Budaiwi said in a statement.
He emphasized 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 on freedom of maritime navigation,” and also contravenes UN Security Council resolutions.
“The GCC stands united with the United Arab Emirates and supports all measures it takes to protect its security, sovereignty, installations and vital interests,” the regional bloc’s secretary general said, urging 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 for spying for Iran
Bahrain’s Supreme Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced three Bahrainis to life imprisonment after finding them guilty of spying for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and collaborating with what the court called that “terrorist group” in hostile actions against the small Gulf kingdom.
The Terrorism Crimes Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement that the cases were separate, but the sentences were handed down in a single session in Manama. The rulings are the latest in a series of trials in recent weeks 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 Iranian Revolutionary Guard 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 accusations included “providing videos of Iranian missile attacks against Bahrain to an electronic account managed by the terrorist group Islamic Revolutionary Guard,” as well as “locations and coordinates of vital sites within the country for potential enemy attacks.”
Iran reported U.S. strikes in a border area near Iraq and Kuwait
U.S. strikes hit a border area in Iran near Iraq and Kuwait on Tuesday, local authorities reported, amid intense fighting between the two countries.
The cities of Abadan, home to the oldest oil refinery in the Middle East, and the port city of Mahshahr were targeted, Valiollah Hayati, vice governor of Khuzestan province, told state news agency IRNA.
Iran 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 said 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 Ehsan Jahanian, the provincial vice governor, to state news agency IRNA, attributing the strikes to the United States.
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Iranian military says it will not yield “an iota” over the Strait of Hormuz
The Iranian military said its armed forces will not yield “an iota” over the Strait of Hormuz after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the reinstatement of a naval cordon against Iran and said the United States would act as the “guardian” of the strait.
“The armed forces will not yield an iota over the Strait of Hormuz,” said Army spokesperson Brigadier General Mohamad Akraminia, according to Tasnim news agency.
The military spokesman added that “the Strait of Hormuz will never be reopened by war, aggression or U.S. attacks” and that respect for the rights of the Iranian people is the only way to reopen one of the world’s most important energy trade routes.
The Islamic 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 the strategic passage. The most recent was an early‐morning strike on two United Arab Emirates tankers that left one dead and eight wounded.
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India summoned an Iranian diplomat over an Ormuz attack that killed a sailor
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 sailor dead and ten others injured, a diplomat from the Iranian mission told news agency EFE.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs later said it lodged a “strong protest” with the Iranian diplomat over the attacks on the MT Al Bahiyah and MT Mombasa, which were transiting the strategic waterway.
“We strongly condemn these attacks and acts of violence directed at seafarers 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 vessels carried a total of 30 Indian seafarers out of 46 crew members.
Of the 12 Indian nationals aboard the MT Al Bahiyah, one was killed and another injured. The MT Mombasa carried another 18 Indians, nine of whom were injured, two seriously, the Foreign Ministry said.
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Iran submitted a bill to manage the Strait of Hormuz and warns it will defend its “red lines”
Iran presented a bill to parliament to manage the Strait of Hormuz and warned it will defend its “red lines,” Ebrahim Azizi, chair of the parliamentary National Security Committee, said.
In a message 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 submitted to Iran’s parliament.”
The lawmaker said, “We remain firm in defending our red lines, particularly regarding management of the Strait of Hormuz.” He also added: “This is the first step; further measures will follow.”
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U.S. diplomatic missions in the UAE 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, causing the death of a seafarer.
Jordan shot down four missiles from Iran
Jordan said it intercepted and shot down four missiles that entered Jordanian airspace originating from Iranian territory, state media reported.
Iran said it struck the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it launched missile and drone attacks on the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
According to the IRGC, the strikes caused a fire in fuel storage tanks at the base and struck and destroyed a Patriot radar, an air control radar for the fleet, a C-RAM early-warning radar system, and the control and monitoring center for surface unmanned vessels (USV).
“The retaliation operation continues,” the statement added.
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