Overview
- U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday it restarted a naval blockade of Iranian ports and carried out multiple waves of air, drone and naval strikes that targeted dozens of coastal and missile sites.
- CENTCOM reported that U.S. forces redirected two commercial vessels trying to reach Iranian ports and disabled the Curacao‑flagged tanker M/T Belma after it ignored warnings.
- Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed retaliatory attacks on U.S. military facilities in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan and threatened to keep the Strait closed and to disrupt other Middle East export corridors.
- Iranian state sources reported strikes hit an army barracks with at least seven troops killed and more than 260 wounded, and officials gave higher totals of recent civilian casualties across southern Iran.
- The escalation has sharply raised oil prices into the mid‑$80s per barrel, cut shipping through Hormuz, weakened the recent 60‑day interim truce, and left regional mediators racing to prevent broader war and further economic shock.