{"id":538697,"date":"2026-07-13T05:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/538697\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T05:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:02:14","slug":"us-strikes-iran-again-tehran-targets-gulf-bases-and-jordan-as-israel-braces-for-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/538697\/","title":{"rendered":"US strikes Iran again; Tehran targets Gulf bases and Jordan as Israel braces for wide"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, said dozens of targets were struck with precision weapons in an operation intended to reduce Iran\u2019s ability to attack vessels passing through the strait, one of the world\u2019s most important energy corridors.<\/p>\n

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Iran said it responded by targeting U.S. military facilities in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait, as well as vessels in the region. According to Tehran, the first stage of its retaliation targeted Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan, followed by Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain and the Ali Al Salem and Ahmad al-Jaber air bases in Kuwait.<\/p>\n

Air-raid sirens were activated in Bahrain following the Iranian warning.<\/p>\n

The renewed exchanges marked another escalation in the conflict between Washington and Tehran, which began after the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran on February 28. A fragile ceasefire later reduced the fighting, but disputes over the Strait of Hormuz and the terms governing commercial passage have pushed the sides back toward direct confrontation.<\/p>\n

An Israeli official said Jerusalem was closely monitoring the exchanges but was not directly involved.<\/p>\n

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Explosions were reported overnight in several parts of Iran, including the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, near the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian reports also described attacks near Ahvaz, a major center of the country\u2019s oil industry in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, as well as explosions in Bushehr province.<\/p>\n

CENTCOM said U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the strikes to punish Iranian forces for restricting freedom of navigation in the strait.<\/p>\n

A CENTCOM spokesman told CNN that Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps had fired again at a commercial vessel passing through the waterway in the hour before the latest American operation. U.S. aircraft intercepted an Iranian cruise missile and an attack drone, he said.<\/p>\n

Shortly before 6 a.m. Israel time, CENTCOM announced that the operation had been completed.<\/p>\n

\u201cDozens of targets were struck with precision munitions to degrade Iran\u2019s ability to conduct attacks in the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Huckabee says Israel warned Washington of a plot to harm Trump<\/p>\n

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The targets included Iranian air-defense systems, coastal radar installations, missile and drone sites and small boats, according to the command.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global commerce,\u201d CENTCOM said. \u201cIran does not control it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry condemned the attacks and accused Washington of violating international law. It also warned neighboring countries against assisting any military operation against Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly 25 days after the memorandum of understanding to end the war was signed, the United States violated almost all of its provisions and committed horrific war crimes,\u201d the ministry said. \u201cWe call on the United Nations and the Security Council to punish everyone who assisted the attacks against us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The claims made by both sides could not immediately be independently verified.<\/p>\n

Israeli officials currently assess that Iran does not want to attack Israel directly<\/a>, fearing that doing so could renew high-intensity fighting with the Israeli military and push the wider escalation beyond Tehran\u2019s control.<\/p>\n

The Israeli official said that calculation could change quickly if Iran attacked Israeli territory or civilians.<\/p>\n

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(Photo: Lev Radin\/Shutterstock, Haim Goldberg\/Flash90)<\/p>\n

According to the official, Israel would enter the fighting if Washington requested its assistance or if Iran brought Israel into the confrontation through a direct attack. For now, Jerusalem expects to remain on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

Iran had claimed Sunday that the IRGC killed three U.S. troops in Kuwait. CENTCOM later denied the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no reports of U.S. service members killed or wounded in the region,\u201d it said, adding that all personnel had been accounted for.<\/p>\n

The latest escalation centers on competing U.S. and Iranian claims over passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.<\/p>\n

Before the war, roughly one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil and liquefied natural gas supplies passed through the strait, most of it exported by Middle Eastern producers. Any prolonged disruption can therefore affect international energy prices and shipping costs far beyond the region.<\/p>\n

For two months, commercial tankers crossing the strait reportedly switched off their location transponders to make it more difficult for Iran to track them. The U.S. military provided limited air cover, while naval officers directed ships to follow a southern route closer to Oman and farther from the Iranian coast.<\/p>\n

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The arrangement allowed the number of vessels using the strait to rise gradually during May and June, according to The New York Times, while an unstable ceasefire remained in place.<\/p>\n

A framework agreement signed by Trump and Iran the following month brought that arrangement to an end. Critics said ambiguously worded provisions effectively granted Tehran formal authority over traffic in parts of the strait.<\/p>\n

Trump celebrated the agreement at the time, writing on social media: \u201cShips of the world, start your engines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Critics argued, however, that the framework gave formal recognition to Iran\u2019s wartime assertion that it controlled access to the waterway.<\/p>\n

Iranian attacks on commercial vessels had effectively closed the strait shortly after the war began. When Washington and Tehran reached an unofficial ceasefire in early April, some tankers resumed travel through a southern corridor farther from Iran.<\/p>\n

U.S. officials now accuse Iran of attempting to force ships into Iranian territorial waters on the northern side of the strait, where Tehran could claim the right to collect tolls or passage fees.<\/p>\n

According to the U.S. military, Iranian forces attacked three ships using the southern route Tuesday, leading Trump to order airstrikes against Iran.<\/p>\n

Tensions rose further over the weekend when the Iranian navy said it had fired at another vessel and was closing the waterway \u201cuntil the end of American intervention in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

CENTCOM said it subsequently struck about 140 Iranian military targets, bringing the reported number of U.S. strikes over the past week to 310.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s military has also attacked commercial vessels and deployed naval mines, bringing shipping through the strait close to a complete halt at points during the war. Some ships were reportedly allowed to travel safely near the Iranian coast only after making large payments to Tehran.<\/p>\n

Trump has since warned that the agreement reached with Iran in June may \u201cno longer exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

The renewed hostilities have driven global energy prices higher and raised fears that the United States and Iran could return to full-scale war, with Arab states hosting American forces once again exposed to Iranian retaliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, said dozens of targets were struck with precision weapons in an operation intended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-538697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}