New Iran strikes on Gulf as US attacks escalate: What we know

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has targeted US subject facilities successful Bahrain, claimed it has destroyed radar systems successful Oman and deed Jordan and Kuwait successful its latest circular of overnight retaliatory strikes against the United States.

Tehran’s attacks connected Monday came arsenic a effect to Washington’s escalating strikes as prospects of bid betwixt the 2 countries recede.

Here is simply a recap of the latest attacks:

Where were the latest Iran attacks?

Oman: The IRGC said it attacked Oman arsenic portion of its latest signifier of retaliation. It said it targeted “the FPS long-range aerial radar and the vas detection radar successful Oman”, adding that these radar systems were destroyed.

Bahrain: The IRGC besides said it launched rocket and drone attacks targeting “installations and infrastructure of the assertive US army” successful Juffair, Bahrain.

Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said connected Monday that sirens had been sounded successful the state arsenic it warned radical to stay calm and caput to the nearest harmless place.

The IRGC earlier said it targeted respective facilities astatine the Sheikh Isa Air Base successful Bahrain.

Jordan: Jordan’s subject said connected Monday that it intercepted and downed “four missiles that entered Jordanian airspace” and came from Iranian territory.

Earlier, the IRGC said it targeted Jordan’s Prince Hassan Air Base with missiles and drones and acceptable occurrence to respective substance depots and ammunition retention facilities.

Kuwait: The IRGC said connected Monday that it besides targeted a US surface-to-surface rocket basal successful Kuwait, “setting occurrence to 2 HIMARS rocket launchers and missile-packed warehouses, wholly destroying them”.

HIMARS stands for precocious mobility artillery rocket systems, which are mobile rocket launchers manufactured by the US.

Earlier, the General Staff of Kuwait’s Army said aerial defence systems were engaging “hostile aerial targets” wrong the country’s airspace.

It said immoderate explosions heard were the effect of aerial defence systems intercepting the attacks and urged the nationalist to travel information and information instructions.

Where was Iran hit?

The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) earlier said it deed “dozens of targets astatine aggregate locations with precision munitions to degrade Iran’s quality to proceed attacking planetary shipping flowing done the Strait of Hormuz”.

These targets included “Iranian subject air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, rocket and drone capabilities, and tiny boats”, it said.

CENTCOM said it deployed “US combatant aircraft, naval vessels, one-way onslaught aerial drones, and one-way onslaught oversea drones for the archetypal time”.

Valiollah Hayati, the lawman politician for information and instrumentality enforcement successful occidental Iran’s Khuzestan province, told the semiofficial ISNA quality bureau connected Monday that US forces attacked astatine slightest 8 locations crossed Khuzestan overnight.

Hayati besides said 1 idiosyncratic was killed and 4 were injured erstwhile a projectile deed an cultivation water-pumping presumption successful Mahshahr, according to the IRNA quality agency.

Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported connected Monday that a US-manufactured LUCAS (low-cost uncrewed combat onslaught system) termination drone was “accurately deed and changeable down” successful Bandar Abbas, a metropolis connected the Strait of Hormuz.

What has each broadside said?

The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a connection connected Monday condemning the US strikes connected targets successful Iran.

US President Donald Trump insisted that the Strait of Hormuz was unfastened during an quality connected the NBC TV network’s Meet the Press programme connected Sunday.

“They’re very, precise evil and sick people. We had meetings with them. They agreed to a woody yesterday, a cleanable woody for us. No nuclear, nary this, nary that, nary nothing. They gave up everything. And past aft that, they near the room. And past wrong an hour, they launched a drone astatine a ship,” Trump said.

When did the struggle reignite?

On July 6, the IRGC struck 3 commercialized vessels, including a Qatari liquefied earthy state tanker, disconnected Oman. Iran accused the ships of trying to walk done the Strait of Hormuz without its permission. Tehran’s mentation of a cardinal clause successful the June memorandum of knowing (MoU) with the US gives it the authorization to negociate postulation done the waterway.

The pursuing day, the US said it carried retired strikes connected Iranian subject targets. Tehran successful crook responded with rocket and drone attacks connected subject bases crossed the Gulf wherever US forces are deployed.

On Wednesday, Trump told reporters the MoU was over, and connected Saturday, the IRGC said the Strait of Hormuz was closed yet again.

How has this impacted the Strait of Hormuz and shipping?

The fig of vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz has fallen to its lowest level successful 5 weeks, according to shipping data.

Six ships sailed done the strait connected Sunday, according to information from the commercialized quality steadfast Kpler, including the Humanity and the Capetan Andreas, transporting 2 cardinal barrels of Iranian lipid and 500,000 barrels of Kuwaiti petroleum products, respectively.

Three bare tankers besides entered the Gulf to load oil, according to the data.