Overview
- U.S. Central Command said American aircraft struck Iranian missile and drone storage, coastal radar and related sites in direct response to attacks on merchant vessels following a Panama‑flagged tanker being hit on Saturday.
- Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it launched ballistic missiles and drones at U.S.-linked bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, and Gulf states reported air‑defence activations and at least one residential building damaged in Bahrain.
- Maritime agencies raised threat levels and altered routes after multiple attacks on commercial ships, with the Joint Maritime Information Center calling the security risk in the strait “substantial” and expanding a route near Oman to allow two‑way traffic.
- U.S. officials, including President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, warned of forceful responses to further attacks, while Iran insists it has the right to regulate transit routes through the strait, deepening the core dispute over control and fees.
- The flare-up puts the 60‑day technical window of the June 17 MoU in jeopardy, risks renewed disruption to a waterway that previously carried about one‑fifth of seaborne oil and could trigger wider regional spillover if strikes hit allied bases or cause civilian harm.