Overview
- U.S. forces struck two rocket launchers on Larak Island Sunday after CENTCOM said IRGC units were observed preparing rockets fitted with sea mines for launch into the Strait of Hormuz.
- Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it suffered casualties on Larak and then launched ballistic missiles at U.S. bases in Jordan, and Jordan reported intercepting eight missiles that entered its airspace.
- The White House has paired limited military strikes with a stepped-up economic campaign and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled new weekly secondary sanctions focused first on banks and financial links to Iran.
- Commercial transits through the Strait of Hormuz have fallen to single-digit visible commodity crossings and oil prices climbed, with Brent moving back above $90 after reports of the strikes.
- The exchange marks a renewed kinetic phase in a six-month confrontation that has tightened fuel supplies in Iran, raised danger for merchant crews and naval forces, and increased diplomatic pressure on Gulf states to prevent wider escalation.