{"id":545487,"date":"2026-07-17T04:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/545487\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T04:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:15:08","slug":"iran-says-seven-killed-in-latest-us-strikes-warns-war-will-spread-us-israel-war-on-iran-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/545487\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says seven killed in latest US strikes, warns war \u2018will spread\u2019 | US-Israel war on Iran News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tehran reported several deaths as the United States attacked Iran<\/a> for a sixth consecutive night, with strikes targeting infrastructure in the country\u2019s south.<\/p>\n

Iranian media reported explosions and attacks in Qeshm Island, Bandar Abbas, Chabahar, Iranshahr and Bandar-e Khamir.<\/p>\n

US Central Command said the latest assaults<\/a> began at 18:00 GMT on Thursday, describing the operation as an effort \u201cto further degrade Iranian military capabilities\u201d.<\/p>\n

A US attack on the Bandar-e Khamir bridge in the Hormozgan province killed at least seven people and injured nine, according to Iran\u2019s Fars news agency.<\/p>\n

The strikes, which come days after US President Donald Trump threatened to hit Iranian infrastructure,<\/a> are the latest sign of peril for an interim US-Iran deal the two countries\u2019 leaders signed last month. Both sides have since accused the other of violating the memorandum of understanding (MoU) amid a week of spiralling hostilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The US military also said forces under Central Command had redirected three commercial vessels attempting to bypass its blockade of Iran in the Gulf of Oman, disabling one vessel that failed to comply and boarding another.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Aksel Zaimovic, reporting from Doha, Qatar, said that Gulf states are strengthening their air defences and military preparedness around crucial infrastructure \u201cin this time of uncertainty\u201d.<\/p>\n

Countries including Qatar, Jordan and Bahrain have been targeted recently.<\/p>\n

Doha said it had intercepted an Iranian strike on Friday, and that a child suffered a shrapnel injury.<\/p>\n

\u2018Time of uncertainty\u2019<\/p>\n

Earlier on Thursday, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed an attack on an airbase used by US forces in Bahrain, saying it was in response to a \u201cbarbaric\u201d US attack<\/a> that forced the evacuation of a children\u2019s cancer hospital in the southwestern city of Ahvaz.<\/p>\n

The IRGC also claimed further attacks on Kuwait and Jordan.<\/p>\n

Kuwait said it was responding to continued Iranian missile and drone attacks after the military earlier reported that 32 drones had targeted vital facilities, causing material damage.<\/p>\n

Iranian officials have signalled that they are prepared to widen the confrontation. Army spokesman Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia warned that Iranian attacks \u201cwill spread to new areas\u201d if US strikes continued. Another military spokesman accused Washington of destabilising security in the Strait of Hormuz, saying the situation in the strategic waterway \u201cwill never return to how it was before\u201d the war.<\/p>\n

Ali Ahmadi, executive fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, said Tehran had so far treated the prospect of widening the conflict as leverage rather than an immediate military objective.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s better essentially used as a threat than something that one would actually do,\u201d Ahmadi told Al Jazeera, referring to the threat of expanding attacks on regional shipping.<\/p>\n

US \u2018always open to diplomacy\u2019<\/p>\n

Sina Azodi, assistant professor of Middle East Politics at George Washington University, said Washington and Tehran are \u201ctrying to force the other side to blink first and capitulate to the other side\u2019s demands\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe US side wants the Iranians to come back to the negotiations and yield to the American demands,\u201d Azodi told Al Jazeera. \u201cOn the Iranian side, they want the United States to first lift the blockade and also fully implement that MoU that was reached.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week, Trump threatened to target Iran\u2019s power plants and bridges if Tehran did not return to the negotiating table, which Iranian Brigadier General Ebrahim Zolfaghari warned would be met with a \u201ccrushing blow\u201d on regional infrastructure.<\/p>\n

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that Trump would hold Iran \u201caccountable\u201d, but \u201cis always open to diplomacy\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey [Iranian officials] have expressed they still want to make a deal to the president. We\u2019re talking to them, but again, the president is not going to allow them to fire on ships in the strait without paying a consequence for that,\u201d said Leavitt.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday that Tehran has no plans to engage in talks<\/a> with Washington and is focused solely on defending the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tehran reported several deaths as the United States attacked Iran for a sixth consecutive night, with strikes targeting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1153,85,87,46,47,43,1032,1156,162198],"class_list":["post-545487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-conflict","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-news","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\/545487","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=545487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}