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<\/a><\/p>\nPublished On 18 Jul 202618 Jul 2026<\/p>\n
A seventh consecutive night<\/a> of attacks by United States forces on targets across Iran has left 10,000 people without water after a desalination plant was hit, with Iran retaliating by launching another wave of drones and missiles at US-allied Gulf states.<\/p>\n Hamzeh Pour, chief executive of the Hormozgan Water and Wastewater Company, was quoted by the Tasnim news agency on Saturday as saying that a seawater pumping station and a power transformer at the Bunji desalination plant in Jask in southern Iran were \u201ccompletely destroyed\u201d, depriving 20 villages of water.<\/p>\n Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s retaliation also targeted civilian infrastructure, a war crime under international humanitarian law.<\/p>\n In the early hours of Saturday, Kuwait announced the closure of its airspace and said two power and water desalination plants were hit by Iranian attacks. Several Kuwaiti firefighters were wounded while responding to a fire sparked by the strikes, the country\u2019s firefighting force said.<\/p>\n Air raid sirens also sounded repeatedly in Bahrain, where authorities urged residents to seek shelter.<\/p>\n In Jordan, authorities said they intercepted 10 Iranian ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said its naval forces had targeted a US military fuel pier at Kuwait\u2019s al-Ahmadi port and a US warplane assembly site at Bahrain\u2019s Sheikh Isa Air Base. The IRGC also said it attacked a US base in Azraq in Jordan, claiming to have destroyed two American fighter jets.<\/p>\n The Iranian attacks came after the US military\u2019s Central Command, or CENTCOM, announced it had carried another wave of overnight strikes targeting \u201csurveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities\u201d in Iran.<\/p>\n US President Donald Trump declared at the NATO summit in Ankara 10 days ago that a memorandum of understanding signed in mid-June by Washington and Tehran was \u201cover\u201d<\/a> following Iranian attacks on tankers near the Strait of Hormuz. He reimposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports and revoked a waiver of sanctions on Iranian oil exports.<\/p>\n Iran insists that under the interim peace deal agreed with the US, it has the right to control maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz and dictate which routes ships should take when transiting the narrow waterway \u2013 a vital channel for global energy exports.<\/p>\n Trump says the strait must be open to all traffic \u2013 but the US Navy is now blockading Iranian vessels.<\/p>\n Trump is in a rush to push down oil and gas prices ahead of crucial midterm elections in November. But his repeated threats and attacks on Iran have so far failed to persuade Tehran to surrender to his terms or even to return to negotiations.<\/p>\n US attacks have expanded in scope and intensity over the past week. Tehran has accused Washington of targeting civilian infrastructure and committing war crimes.<\/p>\n