{"id":763290,"date":"2026-07-14T23:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763290\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T23:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:39:12","slug":"united-states-carries-out-fourth-day-of-strikes-on-iranian-targets-as-naval-blockade-resumes-14-sources-western-mainstream-11-newscord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763290\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Carries Out Fourth Day of Strikes on Iranian Targets as Naval Blockade Resumes: 14 Sources (Western Mainstream: 11) | NewsCord"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strikes and blockade restart<\/p>\n

CNN reported that President Donald Trump warned the U.S. would strike Iranian bridges and power plants \u201cnext week\u201d unless Tehran returned to the negotiating table, while the Guardian said Trump told Fox News that next week would be \u201creally bad for them\u201d because \u201cnext week comes the power plants. Next week comes the bridges.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Iranian state media reported explosions in Bandar Abbas and locations near Sirik, and CNN said Iran targeted U.S. allies in the region including Kuwait.<\/p>\n

In the same reporting, CNN cited Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei saying a U.S. strike in southern Iran killed three members of a park ranger\u2019s family in the village of Seyyed Jowzar in Hajjiabad county, Hormozgan province.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Central Command said the strikes were intended to \u201ccontinue degrading Iranian capabilities used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d as the blockade went into effect at 4 p.m. ET. <\/p>\n

Sanctions, warnings, and politics<\/p>\n

Alongside the military escalation, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on \u201cmore than 50 individuals, entities, and vessels\u201d tied to the Shamkhani network, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent saying, \u201cTreasury is shutting down the financial infrastructure that allows the regime to continue its threats to U.S. national security and global shipping.\u201d<\/p>\n

ABC News said the blockade on Iranian shipping action targeted at least eight oil tankers linked to Iranian oil businesses, while the Treasury Department\u2019s action also targeted individuals and firms supporting financial services used to evade sanctions.<\/p>\n

\"Image\"APAP News<\/a><\/p>\n

In Washington, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats will \u201cnot go along\u201d with Donald Trump\u2019s continuing hostilities with Iran, warning that Trump was \u201cdragging America deeper into a war in Iran with no authorization, no plan, and no exit strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump told Fox News that Iran has \u201cno choice\u201d but to make a deal, saying \u201cThey want to make a deal, but every time they make a deal, they break it,\u201d and he warned, \u201cYou better make a deal. You’re not going to have anybody left.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Guardian also reported that Iran\u2019s deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi said the Strait of Hormuz is part of Iran\u2019s national security and that Iran would exercise sovereignty \u201cwhat ever that costs.\u201d<\/p>\n

What comes next<\/p>\n

CNN said Trump\u2019s administration froze more than $130 million in cryptocurrency it says is linked to Iran, and it described the freeze as part of a broader effort to ratchet up pressure after the memorandum of understanding meant to end the war collapsed.<\/p>\n

The Guardian reported that the U.S. expected American companies to play a role in reconstructing a crude oil pipeline between Iraq and Syria, and it said the revitalized pipeline would run from Iraqi oilfields near Kirkuk to Syria\u2019s western coast.<\/p>\n

In the region, NPR said the U.S. resumed the naval blockade at 4 p.m. ET and that there were \u201ccurrently more than 20 U.S. Navy warships and hundreds of military aircraft operating across the Middle East,\u201d while Iran retaliated by striking U.S. allies in the region.<\/p>\n

NPR also reported that the U.S. issued a license allowing companies a temporary window to disentangle business involving sanctioned shipping companies and vessels tied to Iran, as the blockade and sanctions tightened pressure on the parties\u2019 ability to reach a final deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strikes and blockade restart CNN reported that President Donald Trump warned the U.S. would strike Iranian bridges and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,801,322367,31776,3,322366,322365,21,326523,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-763290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-iran","tag-media-analysis","tag-media-bias","tag-news","tag-news-compared","tag-news-comparison","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-carries-out-fourth","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\/763290","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=763290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}