Overview
- U.S. Central Command said U.S. forces carried out a large strike operation that hit roughly 140 Iranian military targets on Sunday to degrade Iran’s ability to attack commercial vessels.
- Iran’s Revolutionary Guard announced the Strait of Hormuz was closed after it struck a Cyprus‑flagged container ship that caught fire and suffered severe engine‑room damage, leaving one crew member missing and several others rescued.
- Tehran then launched missile and drone attacks against U.S. facilities and sites in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Jordan, prompting air‑defence intercepts and reports of a small number of civilian injuries.
- There is a factual dispute over the strait’s status because U.S. Central Command and maritime agencies report some commercial traffic still transiting via a widened southern route while insurers and operators reroute ships and raise premiums.
- The latest exchanges have effectively broken the fragile interim ceasefire, forced urgent mediation by regional actors such as Oman and Qatar, and raised the risk of wider regional escalation and sustained pressure on global energy markets.