{"id":547339,"date":"2026-07-18T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/547339\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:04:00","slug":"july-17-2026-iran-and-us-widen-attacks-as-renewed-conflict-shows-no-sign-of-de-escalating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/547339\/","title":{"rendered":"July 17, 2026 \u2014 Iran and US widen attacks as renewed conflict shows no sign of de-escalating"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The United States launched a new wave of airstrikes against Iran<\/a> a short while ago, intending to \u201ccontinue degrading Iranian military capabilities,\u201d according to the US military.\n <\/p>\n

\n This comes after the US destroyed a surveillance tower<\/a> yesterday belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Iran\u2019s southeastern coast, the military said.\n <\/p>\n

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Daytime footage shows damaged bridge in Iran’s Bandar Khamir\n <\/p>\n

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Daytime footage shows damaged bridge in Iran’s Bandar Khamir<\/p>\n

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\n Here\u2019s what to know about the US strikes, now on their seventh consecutive day:\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2022 A pattern: US strikes on Iranian bridges<\/a>, railway junctures and power lines connecting key coastline cities appear to suggest a wider pattern by Washington<\/a> intended to seize control of the Strait of Hormuz from Tehran.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2022 Iran\u2019s response: Mohsen Rezaei, a top IRGC official and military adviser to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, warned of a \u201cfull-scale offensive<\/a>\u201d if the US persisted with military strikes against Iran. Tehran, so far, has been striking US allies in the region<\/a>, which several Arab nations have fiercely criticized<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2022 Impact on people: The cities currently under attack are among Iran\u2019s poorest and most ethnically diverse<\/a>, home to large populations of minority communities distinct from Persian-majority centers like Tehran. Despite being home to much of Iran\u2019s energy industry and commercial ports, these provinces have historically suffered from underinvestment, high unemployment and weaker infrastructure.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2022 Caught in the crosshairs: An Indian seafarer<\/a> who went missing after an Iranian attack on his ship Sunday has been confirmed dead, the Forward Seamen Union of India said in a statement. This week, India ordered shipowners and operators not to deploy Indian seafarers on vessels traveling through the Strait of Hormuz amid renewed hostilities.\n <\/p>\n

\n India is the world\u2019s third-largest supplier of seafarers, with more than 300,000 sailors working across global shipping fleets, according to the government.\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN\u2019s Mostafa Salem, Tim Lister, Leila Gharagozlou, Aida Karimi, Magdalena Sofia Vitores Moreno, Eyad Kourdi, Fadel Allassan, Davis Winkie, Dalia Abdelwahab and Sana Noor Haq contributed to the report.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States launched a new wave of airstrikes against Iran a short while ago, intending to \u201ccontinue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-547339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547339","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=547339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}