{"id":556349,"date":"2026-07-18T17:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556349\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:39:09","slug":"iran-renews-attacks-on-gulf-states-after-another-night-of-us-strikes-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556349\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran renews attacks on Gulf states after another night of US strikes \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran<\/a> launched \u200crenewed attacks on US<\/a> Gulf allies on Saturday after a seventh straight night of US strikes, escalating the war one week after a fragile ceasefire agreement fell \u200bapart.<\/p>\n

Kuwait came under sustained attack, with a desalination plant hit and operations at Kuwait International Airport suspended due to repeated missile and drone threats.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards said they struck a US military support centre at Camp Arifjan and destroyed a radar facility at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait.<\/p>\n

Iranian state media reported that in Bahrain, the Revolutionary Guards targeted a site where combat \u200baircraft were gathered at Sheikh Isa Air Base and an intelligence data centre.<\/p>\n

Reuters was not able to verify the reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince there is no international institution to prevent the savagery of the US military, we \u2060have no path before us except the Quranic command: \u2018Whoever attacks you, attack it in the same manner\u2019,\u201d the Guards said in a statement warning \u200cUS \u200callies \u200bin the region to expect more strikes.<\/p>\n

In an interview broadcast on Iranian state television, Mohsen Rezaei, a senior adviser to Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei<\/a>, warned that if US attacks continued for two or three more days, Iran would enter \u201ca phase of full-scale offensive and destructive operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fighting has all but shut down maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, a major conduit for the global oil and gas trade. Only eight ships passed through the strait Thursday, compared with the more than 130 ships that navigated the waterway each day before the war. Oil prices have remained high as the war has dragged on with few public signs of diplomacy.<\/p>\n

On Friday, both sides took aim at shipping traffic, with the US saying it was enforcing a naval blockade while Iran said it targeted vessels that violated its rules on navigating the Strait of \u2060Hormuz, which is a vital waterway for one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil supply. <\/p>\n

Oil \u200bprices climbed more than 4 per cent on Friday to their highest level in more \u200bthan a month, applying political pressure on US president Donald Trump as his Republican Party tries to hold on to power in November congressional elections.<\/p>\n

Washington and \u200cTehran have been testing the limits of escalation since their \u200bceasefire agreement collapsed last week, raising the prospect of a return to all-out war.<\/p>\n

Civilian infrastructure was increasingly being subjected to attack despite concerns about potential \u2060war crimes.<\/p>\n

Iranian media reported that several missiles struck power facilities and \u2060desalination pumps in the southern city of \u200bJask on Saturday, citing a local official. Some 10,000 people in 20 villages were without water, Tasnim news agency reported.<\/p>\n

A power generation and water desalination plant in Kuwait was hit in an Iranian attack, the country\u2019s Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy Ministry said in a statement. It was the second attack on Kuwaiti water desalination sites in two days.<\/p>\n

The US military\u2019s Central Command earlier said it concluded its seventh consecutive day of strikes by hitting Iranian surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage and maritime capabilities.<\/p>\n

UN secretary general Antonio Guterres was concerned about escalation in the conflict, particularly \u201cattacks on civilian infrastructure in Iran and across the region,\u201d his spokesperson said on Friday.<\/p>\n

Iranian media reported strikes early on Saturday in Hormozgan Province on \u200cthe Strait of Hormuz. State TV said \u2060three people were killed and eight wounded while two bridges and a road tunnel were damaged.<\/p>\n

A day earlier, Iranian state media said US strikes hit at least five bridges in the south. Seven people were reported killed in attacks on bridges in the southern port \u200cof Bandar Khamir, where a train station was also hit. <\/p>\n

An airport was reported hit further east in Iranshahr. <\/p>\n

Trump has threatened to launch broad-based air strikes on Iran\u2019s infrastructure and has also declined \u200bto rule out a ground assault on Iran\u2019s coast or islands. <\/p>\n

US officials have said attacks on southern Iran \u200bare designed in part to give Trump options. Such moves risk provoking Iran to attack the vital infrastructure of vulnerable Gulf states, or having its allies in Yemen further disrupt global energy supplies by attacking shipping from the Red Sea. \u2013 Reuters\/New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran launched \u200crenewed attacks on US Gulf allies on Saturday after a seventh straight night of US strikes,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[969,42,11829,150432,43,150177,40,38,41,39,115],"class_list":["post-556349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-israel-iran-conflict","tag-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}