{"id":540400,"date":"2026-07-14T05:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/540400\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T05:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:06:07","slug":"us-iran-exchange-attacks-around-strait-of-hormuz-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/540400\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Iran exchange attacks around Strait of Hormuz | Conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US military has concluded a third consecutive night of strikes against Iran<\/a>, hours before a reinstated naval blockade of Iranian ports takes effect, as Washington and Tehran both stake claims to control the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

US Central Command, the military\u2019s regional command known as CENTCOM, said its latest strikes began at 4:45pm ET (20:45 GMT) on Monday, and were aimed at degrading Iran\u2019s capacity to attack \u201cinnocent civilians and commercial shipping\u201d in the strait.<\/p>\n

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CENTCOM later announced the conclusion of its strikes and said<\/a> the latest round of attacks on Iran lasted five hours. It added that US forces \u201csuccessfully struck military targets across Iran including Bushehr, Chah Bahar, Jask, Konarak, Abu Musa, and Bandar Abbas\u201d.<\/p>\n

Iranian state television and semi-official news agencies reported explosions throughout the night across the country\u2019s southern coast, including the port city of Bandar Abbas, and on Kish and Qeshm islands, as well as the town of Jam in Bushehr province.<\/p>\n

A projectile that struck western Bandar Abbas caused no casualties, the Fars news agency reported, citing the regional governor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Tasnim news agency reported that Iranian forces had struck several \u201cviolating\u201d vessels in the strait, and that a US-made drone had been shot down near Bandar Abbas.<\/p>\n

Iranian strikes<\/p>\n

The United Arab Emirates<\/a> said that two of its oil tankers had been hit by Iranian cruise missiles in Omani waters in the Strait of Hormuz. The UAE added that one Indian national crew member had been killed on one of the tankers, and that eight other people were wounded.<\/p>\n

For its part, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had also launched a wider retaliatory campaign against US allies and interests across the Gulf.<\/p>\n

The Iranian army said on Monday<\/a> that it had carried out a drone attack on US military targets in Kuwait. In a statement posted by state broadcaster IRIB, the army said it launched drones at a US Patriot missile system, fuel tanks, a watchtower, an ammunition depot and communication systems.<\/p>\n

The IRGC said<\/a> it targeted \u201cseveral weapons storage depots, a satellite communications center, and a building housing US forces\u201d at al-Juffair Base in Bahrain. It also said<\/a> it had targeted the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain with missiles and drones.<\/p>\n

Jordan\u2019s army said<\/a> it shot down four missiles in Jordanian airspace that were fired from Iran, according to the official Petra news agency.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Monday, Iran struck targets<\/a>\u00a0in Bahrain, Jordan, and Kuwait again.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump formally notified Congress on July 10 that fighting with Iran had resumed on July 7, invoking his authority to keep US forces in combat for another 60 days without lawmakers\u2019 approval.<\/p>\n

Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer criticised the decision to resume hostilities. \u201cThe House and Senate both voted to remove our forces from harm\u2019s way and end this war now. Trump must comply,\u201d he said in a post on X.<\/p>\n

The US blockade on Iran, confirmed by the US Navy-led Joint Maritime Information Centre (JMIC), is due to begin at 20:00 GMT on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It marks the rapid collapse of a ceasefire reached in June under a US-Iran memorandum of understanding, as the two sides now fight over a waterway through which roughly a fifth of the world\u2019s oil passed before the US and Israel began their war on Iran in February.<\/p>\n

The US\u2019s blockade covers Iran\u2019s ports and terminals along the entire southern coastline, according to JMIC.<\/p>\n

Vessels headed to destinations other than Iran will still be allowed through the strait, and humanitarian shipments will be permitted after inspection, it said, but ships suspected of helping Iran evade the blockade through ship-to-ship transfers face boarding, and those that fail to comply risk being disabled or destroyed.<\/p>\n

The Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n

The war of words over who controls the Strait of Hormuz continued on Monday, with Trump insisting again that the strait was open and announcing a 20 percent toll on cargo shipped through it in exchange for US protection.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, rejected the US president\u2019s claim, saying Tehran \u201chas always been the guardian of the strait and will remain so forever\u201d.<\/p>\n

At a news conference on Monday, Trump said Iran\u2019s offensive capabilities were being dismantled, but he still thinks a \u201cdeal is possible\u201d despite the return to open fighting.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Mike Hanna, reporting from the White House, said<\/a> the fighting did not necessarily rule out a return to talks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ceasefire is over, but the negotiations are still there,\u201d he said, adding that Washington wanted to keep alive \u201cthe concept of negotiations\u201d even if none were under way, because the administration remained eager to secure a deal.<\/p>\n

Trump also repeated his demand that Gulf nations help cover the cost of protecting shipping, saying Washington was \u201cprotecting a very rich portion of the world\u201d and expected to be paid for it.<\/p>\n

The current escalation follows weeks of tit-for-tat strikes<\/a> that steadily wore down the June ceasefire<\/a>, as Iran and the US clashed over who has authority to control traffic through the strait.<\/p>\n

Oil prices rose more<\/a> than 9 percent on Monday, with Brent crude climbing to about $81 a barrel, its highest level since mid-June.<\/p>\n

Kpler, the ship-tracking firm, said crossings through the strait fell by about 52 percent between July 10 and July 12 compared with the previous week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US military has concluded a third consecutive night of strikes against Iran, hours before a reinstated naval…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1153,42,87,47,43,40,38,41,39,1032,1156,162198],"class_list":["post-540400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-conflict","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540400","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=540400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}