Overview
- Iran launched new missile salvos at Israel on Friday, with air defenses activated and damage reported from a cluster munition, according to Israeli authorities and AFP.
- Following Thursday’s strike on a key highway bridge linking Tehran to Karaj, President Donald Trump posted video of the attack and warned that bridges and electric power plants in Iran are next.
- Iranian state media said an American fighter jet was shot down over central Iran and urged citizens to capture any surviving pilot, a claim the U.S. military had not confirmed.
- Gulf governments reported fresh strikes on energy and infrastructure sites, including a fire at Kuwait’s Mina al-Ahmadi refinery and a shutdown at an Abu Dhabi gas complex, while Bahrain confirmed an attack on an Amazon Web Services site.
- The UN Security Council delayed a vote on a Bahrain-led bid to authorize force to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz as objections from China, Russia, and France persisted, and oil prices hovered near $110 after Iran effectively choked the route that carries about one-fifth of seaborne oil.