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\n A man holds a poster of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a gathering commemorating him at a square in Tehran, Saturday, July 11, 2026.<\/p>\n
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2014 Iran said the Strait of Hormuz was closed once again after a warning shot fired by its military struck a vessel using an unauthorized route in the critical waterway, further jeopardizing the\u00a0already tenuous ceasefire agreement\u00a0with the United States.<\/p>\n
U.S. Central Command said a short time later that its forces began a third round of\u00a0strikes against Iran. There were explosions in Bandar Abbas and Sirik, two towns along the shores of the strait, Iran state media reported.<\/p>\n
“The United States is imposing a heavy cost by continuing to degrade Iran’s ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the strait,” the American military said.
A Cyprus-flagged container ship was hit by Iran and suffered “significant engineroom damage” and a civilian crew member is missing, U.S. Central Command said.<\/p>\n
Senior U.S. officials had previously said in Washington that negotiations to further cement\u00a0last month’s deal\u00a0to end the war will be unable to progress without the strait being secure \u2014 and even said they wanted Iran to offer public statements to that effect.<\/p>\n
Instead, the Revolutionary Guards Corps said multiple vessels “disregarded our warnings and instructions to correct their course and proceed along the approved route.” One of them “was struck by a warning shot and brought to a stop.”<\/p>\n
Iran said that the strait would remain closed “until further notice” and said it would consider targeting “additional enemy bases in the region” if it faced more attacks.<\/p>\n
A little more than an hour later, the U.S. announced its own new round of strikes.<\/p>\n
“Iran made a poor choice. Now they pay,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on social media.<\/p>\n
Attacks followed more diplomatic talks about the strait <\/p>\n
The latest flurry of shots from both sides followed Iran and Oman’s foreign ministers meeting on Saturday to discuss the strait that lies between them, after days of\u00a0Iranian attacks on ships\u00a0and\u00a0U.S. retaliation\u00a0that dealt a blow to the interim deal to end the war.<\/p>\n
Iran’s new supreme leader, still unseen since the war began, also vowed in his first statement since the\u00a0funeral of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei\u00a0that Iranians would avenge his killing in the war’s opening strikes on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n
Such revenge “is the will of our nation and must certainly be carried out,”\u00a0Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei<\/a>\u00a0said in a statement carried on state television, hours after\u00a0President Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0threatened more missile attacks.<\/p>\n Oman said it and Iran agreed to keep talking about the Strait of Hormuz “at the technical and political levels.”<\/p>\n Iran accuses Washington of violating ceasefire deal <\/p>\n Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said before the new round of strikes that he met with his counterpart in Oman to discuss “appropriate mechanisms for ensuring the safe passage of ships.”<\/p>\n The world for decades has considered the strait an international waterway. Iran has insisted that the strait now remain under its control and that it be allowed to charge ships moving through it, a stance it took after the war began. The U.S. urges mariners to transit on a southern route through Oman’s territorial waters.<\/p>\n About a fifth of all traded oil and natural gas passed through the strait before the war began. Iran’s grip on it during the war led to a global energy crisis, though\u00a0oil prices have sharply dropped\u00a0since wartime highs of $120 a barrel.<\/p>\n Iran’s top diplomat also accused the U.S. of violating the interim deal by ending waivers allowing Iran to sell crude oil on the open market in U.S. dollars. Washington ended them in response to the attacks on ships in the strait.<\/p>\n “Reality check: There can only be mutual compliance,” Araghchi wrote on social media.<\/p>\n Trump says he responded to threats to kill him <\/p>\n Trump said he’s personally been the target of an Iranian plot, and he said the U.S. military would automatically retaliate if he was killed.<\/p>\n He wrote on social media early Saturday that “1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat.”<\/p>\n However, such retaliation\u00a0would have to be ordered by\u00a0Vice President JD Vance, who would become commander-in-chief if Trump were to be killed.<\/p>\n Trump said he was responding to threats “to\u00a0assassinate, or attempt to assassinate” him. During Khamenei’s funeral,\u00a0mourners held posters or banners\u00a0calling for Trump to be killed along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. U.S. officials, speaking Friday on condition of anonymity about the\u00a0current situation with Iran, said the resumption of strikes even before the latest round came as a result of what they described as a rogue faction of Iranian hard-liners who were trying to sabotage the ceasefire.<\/p>\n Iran has insisted its theocracy is unified under the new supreme leader.<\/p>\n After the U.S. wrapped up strikes on Thursday, more attacks reportedly hit Iran, raising questions about who else may be targeting the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n Israel didn’t claim them, meaning the Gulf Arab states may have launched them, likely as a means to deter Iran from attacking them again. Iran on Thursday retaliated for U.S. strikes by targeting Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Qatar.<\/p>\n The strikes in Iran over two days \u2014 and prior to the ones in the wake of the warning shot \u2014 killed at least 17 people and wounded 115 others, Iranian Health Ministry spokesperson Hossein Kermanpour said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man holds a poster of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a gathering commemorating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-757814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The U.S. president has declared the ceasefire over but said the U.S. would continue negotiations.<\/p>\n