{"id":544651,"date":"2026-07-16T16:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/544651\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:43:10","slug":"us-launches-new-attacks-on-iran-as-tehran-targets-gulf-sites-us-israel-war-on-iran-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/544651\/","title":{"rendered":"US launches new attacks on Iran as Tehran targets Gulf sites | US-Israel war on Iran News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States military says it has launched another wave of strikes on Iran<\/a>, while Tehran says it retaliated with missile and drone attacks against US military assets in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan.<\/p>\n

US Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees US military operations in the Middle East, said it concluded an evening wave of strikes against Iran at 9pm ET on Wednesday (01:00 GMT on Thursday), targeting \u201cIranian command centres, air defence sites, missile and drone capabilities, and coastal surveillance facilities\u201d in an effort to reduce Iran\u2019s ability to disrupt shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

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CENTCOM said the 90-minute operation targeted the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, a key Iranian naval hub overlooking the Strait of Hormuz, as well as coastal defence and cruise missile sites on Greater Tunb island, one of three islands near the entrance to the waterway.<\/p>\n

Iranian air defences were activated over the capital, Tehran, as state media reported attacks across much of the country. Explosions were reported in Bandar Abbas and on nearby Qeshm island in the south, as well as in the southeastern coastal towns of Sirik, Chabahar and Konarak. Iranian media also reported attacks further inland in Rask, Khondab, Khorramabad and Semnan.<\/p>\n

Iranian authorities said there were no casualties in Pakdasht or at the Parchin military complex near Tehran.<\/p>\n

In the northern Iranian city of Semnan, the IRIB, citing a senior security official, said there were no deaths or injuries following an attack.<\/p>\n

Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera\u2019s Resul Serdar Atas said this was the second reported US attack on northern Iran within a week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main building of a civilian airport in Semnan was attacked by the Americans,\u201d he said. \u201cThere has been minor damage at the airport. Also, in the same city, a storage facility was hit.\u201d<\/p>\n

In southwestern Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it intercepted and shot down a US MQ-9 drone over Andimeshk in Khuzestan province.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Ministry of Health has said at least 35 people have been killed and more than 300 injured since the latest round of fighting began last week.<\/p>\n

Iran claims attacks on US bases<\/p>\n

Iran says it carried out retaliatory missile and drone attacks against facilities used by the US military in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan, with the army saying it targeted US radar and air defence systems in Kuwait and Bahrain.<\/p>\n

Kuwaiti air defences are confronting attacks by \u201chostile drones\u201d, Kuwait\u2019s\u00a0military said in a statement on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe General Staff of the Army notes that any explosion sounds heard are the result of air defence systems intercepting the hostile attacks\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a statement carried by Iranian state media early Thursday, it said missiles struck Patriot missile batteries and fuel tanks used by US forces at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait.<\/p>\n

Kuwait said it intercepted four cruise missiles and 21 drones launched from Iran from Wednesday to early Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Iranian army said drones targeted communications equipment, Super Hawk radar systems and Patriot air defence installations used by US forces at Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain.<\/p>\n

The Iranian military also claimed missile and drone attacks on Jordan\u2019s al-Azraq Air Base.<\/p>\n

In a statement addressed to the Jordanian people, the IRGC said it had \u201ctargeted and destroyed the American fighter jet storage ramp and the new American command and control centre in West Asia in a very large base in Al-Azraq, Jordan, with Khyber-Shakan ballistic missiles\u201d.<\/p>\n

The statement came after Jordan\u2019s military said it intercepted eight Iranian missiles earlier on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Iranian army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia warned attacks \u201cwill spread to new areas\u201d if the US continues its strikes.<\/p>\n

\u201cA significant portion of the armed forces\u2019 capabilities have not yet been demonstrated. Should any hostile actions against the country continue, Iran\u2019s response will be commensurate with the circumstances and exceed the enemy\u2019s expectations, opening new arenas of confrontation,\u201d he said in a post on Telegram.<\/p>\n

The latest escalation comes less than a month after Washington and Tehran signed a memorandum of understanding extending an April ceasefire and outlining plans for negotiations aimed at ending the war, which began on February 28 with Israeli and US strikes on Iran. The US and Iran have since accused the other of violating the agreement.<\/p>\n

Trump raises prospect of wider strikes<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Rosiland Jordan, reporting from Washington, DC, said US President Donald Trump has increasingly signalled a willingness to broaden the scope of US military operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe US president has said several times this week that he is willing to expand US military action against Iran, not just targeting military facilities \u2013 including storage depots, missile launch sites and vessels that are part of the Iranian navy \u2013 but he has also raised the spectre of targeting what could be considered civilian targets, such as power plants, bridges and other parts of Iranian infrastructure,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is legally very questionable and has brought criticism against the Trump administration before, earlier in this war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, amid the US blockade on Iranian ports and Tehran\u2019s blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, CENTCOM also said US forces disabled an oil tanker attempting to sail towards an Iranian port in the Strait of Hormuz by firing Hellfire missiles.<\/p>\n

\u201cForces observed Curacao-flagged M\/T Belma transiting international waters toward Kharg Island. The commercial vessel ignored multiple warnings as it attempted to violate the US blockade. A US aircraft disabled the vessel after firing Hellfire missiles into the ship\u2019s smokestack. The ship is no longer transiting to Iran,\u201d CENTCOM said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the first 24 hours of enforcement, CENTCOM has redirected two compliant commercial vessels and disabled one non-compliant vessel,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States military says it has launched another wave of strikes on Iran, while Tehran says it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18292,1153,29616,42,87,21453,2286,6606,47,2899,43,40,38,41,39,1032,162198],"class_list":["post-544651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bahrain","tag-conflict","tag-drone-strikes","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","tag-jordan","tag-kuwait","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544651","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=544651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}