{"id":356136,"date":"2026-06-11T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356136\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:01:09","slug":"iran-responds-to-second-day-of-us-strikes-by-firing-at-gulf-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356136\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran responds to second day of US strikes by firing at Gulf states"},"content":{"rendered":"

By JON GAMBRELL, MICHELLE L. PRICE and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN<\/p>\n

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 The U.S and Iran traded strikes for a second day, pushing the Middle East closer to the resumption of a\u00a0full-scale war<\/a>. The American attack, which lasted into Thursday morning in Iran, appeared more intense and wider than the day before, but Tehran released little information on the extent of the damage.<\/p>\n

Also, the U.S. military said it used missile fire to disable an oil tanker near trying to break its blockade of Iranian ports. The announcement came after an Indian official said a prior U.S. strike on a different vessel nearby killed three Indian mariners, underscoring the danger to seafarers.<\/p>\n

It was the third time this week that back-and-forth strikes have rattled the Middle East. The first involved\u00a0attacks between Iran and Israel<\/a>, followed by the two rounds of fire between the U.S. and Iran, which hit countries in the region that host American bases.<\/p>\n

The new exchange of fire came as efforts to negotiate an end to the war appeared stuck, with President Donald Trump warning that Tehran would \u201cpay the price\u201d for stalled negotiations<\/a>. Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday that the U.S. attacks had \u201ceffectively rendered the ceasefire \u2026 meaningless,\u201d without saying it was abandoning it.<\/p>\n

Central to the negotiations is Iran\u2019s stranglehold on the\u00a0Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, which has disrupted global energy supplies, driven up fuel prices and made\u00a0food and other basics<\/a>\u00a0more expensive well beyond the region.<\/p>\n

Iran announced Thursday that the strait was closed \u2014 but it was unclear what that meant since it has severely restricted traffic through the waterway since early in the war and only a trickle of ships have gotten through. The U.S. military\u2019s Central Command disputed the claim \u2014 and Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. has undertaken a secret mission in recent weeks to sneak ships through the passage.<\/p>\n

The two sides also remain at odds over Iran\u2019s nuclear program, which Tehran insists is peaceful but which the U.S. and Israel fear could be used to build an atomic weapon due to its stockpile of highly enriched uranium. The U.S. and Israel said a major reason they went to war on Feb. 28 was to ensure that Iran would never be able to do that.<\/p>\n

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\nUS strikes Iran and Iran fires back at Gulf states<\/p>\n

Central Command said its latest round of airstrikes came \u201cin response to Iran\u2019s unwarranted and continued aggression\u201d and targeted \u201cIranian military surveillance capabilities, communication systems and air defense sites.\u201d It did not elaborate on the damage done by the strikes, which it said ended just before sunrise Thursday in Iran.<\/p>\n

Explosions from the strikes echoed around Iran\u2019s capital, as well as the port city of Bandar Abbas and other southern areas along the Strait of Hormuz. Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard later said sites hit included a manufacturing complex, a military barracks and a local Guard base outside of Tehran.<\/p>\n

Iran said it fired back at Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan, as it had a day before.<\/p>\n

Kuwait closed its airspace for several hours because of the attack, but did not elaborate on any damage. Jordan said it intercepted 20 Iranian missiles fired toward an area that is home to a base hosting U.S. troops, though no one was hurt.<\/p>\n

Bahrain\u2019s Interior Ministry said an 11-year-old girl was hurt and cars and homes were damaged by debris from interceptions responding to the Iranian attack.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Israel warned residents in the country\u2019s north to seek shelter after the detection of suspected incoming fire from Lebanon, where Israel is fighting the Iran-allied Hezbollah militant group.<\/p>\n

Trump says the US is sneaking oil through the Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s ability to control the Strait of Hormuz has proved a strong bargaining chip since the narrow waterway\u2019s effective closure has severely disrupted the global economy.<\/p>\n

Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. military has undertaken a mission since last month to sneak oil shipments past Iran\u2019s forces in the strait, aided by the destruction of Iranian radar equipment.<\/p>\n

Trump said as a result more than 100 million barrels of oil have evaded Iran\u2019s chokehold. There was no immediate confirmation of that figure, which equals roughly five days of oil shipments through the waterway before the war began.<\/p>\n

But the seas remain dangerous for mariners.<\/p>\n

The U.S. military\u2019s Central Command said Thursday that it struck an oil tanker in waters just outside the Strait of Hormuz to enforce its blockade on Iranian ports. It said Hellfire missiles were launched at the ship in the Gulf of Oman late on Wednesday after its crew failed to comply with U.S. orders.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the ninth merchant vessel the U.S. military says it has disabled since imposing the blockade in waters off Iran.<\/p>\n

Indian Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister Sarbananda Sonowal announced on X that three Indians missing after a prior American strike on the tanker Settebello had been killed.<\/p>\n

CENTCOM had accused the Settebello of having \u201cviolated the ongoing blockade by attempting to transport oil from Iran.\u201d American forces fired into the ship\u2019s engine room to stop it Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The leader of the International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency, condemned the attack. India\u2019s foreign ministry summoned a senior U.S. diplomat to convey its \u201cdeepest concerns\u201d over the attack and formally protest the strike, spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.<\/p>\n

Big disagreements stand in the way of a quick peace deal<\/p>\n

Trump suggested earlier this week that an agreement with Iran could be close \u2014 but the exchanges of fire have called that into question, and big differences remain.<\/p>\n

The U.S. wants to see Iran give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which is a short technical step from weapons-grade levels.<\/p>\n

Iran is refusing to give up the uranium and demanding relief from sanctions. It also wants the release of frozen assets even before a final agreement is in place, something Trump rejected.<\/p>\n

Iran has insisted that any deal to end the war must also end fighting between its ally Hezbollah and Israel. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears\u00a0intent on pursuing his goal<\/a>\u00a0of destroying the militant group.<\/p>\n

A Qatari diplomatic delegation, negotiating in coordination with the U.S., left Tehran on Thursday morning after holding talks, according to an official with knowledge of the team who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the mediation. Pakistan, meanwhile, expressed deep concern over rising tensions and urged both Iran and the U.S. to adhere to the ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Price and Toropin reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Sheikh Saaliq in New Delhi, Munir Ahmed in Islamabad and Victoria Eastwood in Cairo contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By JON GAMBRELL, MICHELLE L. PRICE and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 The U.S and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93309,9066,74,76,75,65989,98825,145121],"class_list":["post-356136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-iran-war","tag-middle-east","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us-iran","tag-us-strikes-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}