{"id":417781,"date":"2026-07-30T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417781\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:00:26","slug":"iranian-strike-hits-chinese-firms-building-in-kuwait-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417781\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian strike hits Chinese firm\u2019s building in Kuwait \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Iranian<\/a> strike hit a Chinese<\/a> company’s building in northern Kuwait Thursday morning, severely damaging the structure and killing a worker, Kuwait\u2019s military said, hours after Jordan\u2019s air defenses shot down five missiles launched from Iran.<\/p>\n

The attacks came after the U.S. military<\/a> said it had completed \u201ca heavy wave of strikes against Iran,\u201d conducted in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack on a U.S. base in Jordan.<\/p>\n

Central Command said in a social media post that the U.S.<\/a> had struck \u201cdozens\u201d of targets belonging to Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps, including military command centers as well as missile and drone facilities, and coastal surveillance and defense sites.<\/p>\n

No casualties were reported from Jordan’s interception of the missiles, Jordan\u2019s state-run Petra news agency said, quoting the spokesman for the country\u2019s armed forces. <\/p>\n

The flare-ups on multiple fronts after several days of relative calm raised the risk of a return to all-out war<\/a>. It also underscored the difficulty of winding down a five-month conflict that has jolted the world economy and is unpopular among Americans. The fighting was likely to add to concerns that the U.S. is further drawing down already diminished stockpiles of sophisticated munitions needed to defend its bases and allies.<\/p>\n

U.S. strikes Iran<\/p>\n

The U.S. Central Command said in a social media post that the United States had struck \u201cdozens\u201d of targets belonging to Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps, including military command centers as well as missile and drone facilities, and coastal surveillance and defense sites.<\/p>\n

The new strikes came hours after President Donald Trump<\/a> vowed to hit Iran \u201cvery hard\u201d after it targeted a base in Jordan that hosts U.S. troops.<\/p>\n

Iran’s official IRNA news agency said three people were killed and two were wounded in a strike on the island of Qeshm, which lies just off the Iranian mainland in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

The latest barrage came after the U.S. partnered with Saudi Arabia to strike Iran-backed militias in neighboring Iraq, killing at least 20 fighters and six Iranian advisers on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Fires reported on two natural gas vessels in Egyptian port<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, British maritime security firm Ambrey said drone strikes ignited fires on two natural gas vessels at the Egyptian port of Damietta on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the strikes on a U.S.-owned floating storage facility and a Greek-owned tanker. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

The office of the Egyptian prime minister said initial investigations showed the fires on the two vessels had been caused by a drone.<\/p>\n

Egypt, a close U.S. ally and regional mediator, is one of the only countries in the Middle East to have been spared direct military action during the war. A strike by Iran or its allies, if confirmed, would mark a significant widening of the conflict.<\/p>\n

Asked during an Oval Office event if Iran was responsible for the strikes on the natural gas vessels, Trump responded: \u201cIt\u2019s a little more of the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the meantime, we\u2019re going to be hitting them very hard because it\u2019s our turn to hit them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHouse Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, said Tuesday that he will not use the War Powers Act against the Trump administration amid the ongoing war in Iran, instead calling on allied nations in NATO and Middle East to play a larger role in the conflict.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia accuses Iraq militias of targeting its oil facilities<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia had accused the Iraqi militias of firing drones against its oil facilities<\/a> over the past days. An umbrella group of Iraqi militias initially denied the allegations, while another Iran-backed group \u2014 the Houthi rebels in Yemen \u2014 said they had attacked Saudi energy facilities as part of a separate but related conflict.<\/p>\n

Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman met separately on Wednesday with Trump and Vice President JD Vance, according to two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to comment publicly about the private meetings.<\/p>\n

They said the Saudi decision to join the U.S. attacks against the Iraqi militias was meant to send a message to Iran that it wouldn\u2019t tolerate Iran or its proxies targeting the Saudi oil industry and other critical infrastructure. At the same time, the defense minister underscored to Trump and Vance that the Saudis want to see a de-escalation in the war and for Washington and Tehran to return to negotiations.<\/p>\n

Before the latest eruption, mediators had expressed optimism about bringing the U.S. and Iran back to the negotiating table. An interim agreement collapsed in recent weeks over renewed fighting in the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway for global energy supplies that Iranian attacks have again effectively closed.<\/p>\n

A regional official said mediators are \u201cstill trying with both sides\u201d to restore calm and get the ceasefire back on track. He gave no details on whether progress was being made and spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door diplomacy.<\/p>\n

Attacks on Saudi oil facilities could worsen global energy crisis<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia is also locked in a renewed conflict with the Houthis. The rebels have declared a blockade of Saudi shipping that could choke off another crucial Middle East trade route, the Bab el-Mandeb strait from the Red Sea into the Gulf of Aden.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the Houthis said they had launched drones targeting oil facilities used to transport oil across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea port city of Yanbu, a key bypass for Saudi exports blocked by Iran\u2019s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

The rebels said the attack was in response to a Saudi drone they said had breached Yemen\u2019s airspace.<\/p>\n

Planet Labs satellite imagery from Monday analyzed by The Associated Press showed damage to Saudi Aramco\u2019s Abqaiq oil-processing facility. The massive facility is capable of processing approximately 7 million barrels of crude oil per day.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Becatoros reported from Athens, Greece. Associated Press writers Konstantin Toropin in Washington and Qassim Abdul-Zahra in Baghdad, Iraq, contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Iranian strike hit a Chinese company’s building in northern Kuwait Thursday morning, severely damaging the structure and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[19378,74,76,75,99258],"class_list":["post-417781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-iran","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-war-with-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417781","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=417781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}