Iran attacks U.S. sites after American strikes and wedding deaths

Motorists ride past a billboard depicting U.S. President Donald Trump inside a catering container, installed on a building along a street in downtown of Tehran on Aug. 31, 2026. Photo by ATTA KENARE /AFP via Getty Images

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Iran launched a wave of attacks on U.S. sites across the Middle East on Wednesday as violence surged after an extensive American bombardment and the deaths of four people at an Iranian wedding party.

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards announced attacks on U.S. bases in Jordan, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, in the six-month conflict’s heaviest exchange in weeks.

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U.S. President Donald Trump had warned earlier of “much harder and higher” attacks if Iran retaliated to the U.S. strikes, which Iran’s military and state media said killed 18 people.

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The renewed attacks deepen the impasse in the war, as Iran maintains a stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz oil export route while the U.S. presses a counter-blockade of Iranian ports.

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In the latest strikes, the Iranian Red Crescent said on Tuesday that four people including a child were killed and more than 50 were wounded by a U.S. attack at a wedding in Iran’s south.

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A video shared by an Iranian government account showed debris and damage at what it said was the wedding site in Sirik following a U.S. strike, with people heard screaming in the background.

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“Unfortunately, this is a residential building. And unfortunately, this happened during my daughter’s wedding ceremony,” Ali Mallahi, father of the bride and owner of the building, said in a video carried by state TV. “It is a very saddening incident… Thank God the casualties were not higher.”

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Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf lashed out over the wedding attack, calling the United States “Satan.”

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“If a power acts like Satan, picks targets like Satan, and kills like Satan, it’s Satan,” he posted on X.

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The U.S. military did not address the incident directly. U.S. Central Command spokesman Tim Hawkins said “the U.S. military never targets civilians, unlike the IRGC,” referring to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

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The latest round of fighting began when Washington hit Iranian targets on Sunday, the first known strikes in several weeks.

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Tehran’s forces then targeted U.S. troops in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, and projectiles struck two oil tankers in unclaimed attacks.

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Two Filipino sailors died in one of the tanker attacks on Monday, Saudi Arabia’s national shipping company said Wednesday.

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Trump said the U.S. strikes were “in retaliation for the Iranians’ failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait” and firing missiles at the base in Jordan.

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More U.S. attacks came on Tuesday, with Iranian state TV reporting explosions in the south along Hormuz and on an island in the Gulf, and that U.S. forces hit an airport in the southern province of Kerman.

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Seven people were killed and eight others wounded in a missile attack in the southern Khuzestan province, IRNA reported.