7:03 a.m. – US military says it has carried out a new series of strikes in Iran
The US military hit some 90 “military targets” in Iran, including air defense systems, in its latest series of strikes, the US Middle East Command (Centcom) announced on Wednesday evening.
“The United States completed a new series of strikes against Iran on July 8 to further degrade Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping and innocent civilian mariners in the Strait of Hormuz,” Centcom detailed in a statement published on X.
7:02 a.m. – Iran struck US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards announced that they had struck American bases in Kuwait and Bahrain on Thursday in response to strikes carried out by Washington in Iran, and threatened to extend their attacks to other countries in the region.
In a statement broadcast by the official Irib television, the Revolutionary Guards claimed to have launched drone and missile attacks against “infrastructure and installations” at the American bases of Arifjan and Ali Al-Salem in Kuwait and Juffair and Sheikh Isa in Bahrain. They also threatened to expand their response to other bases in the region if the United States carried out further strikes.
6:50 a.m. – Strait of Hormuz will only be opened under “Iranian terms”
Iran’s top negotiator in talks with the United States, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz would only be opened on “Iranian terms” after exchanges of strikes between the two sides in the Middle East.
“The United States has still not understood that intimidation and non-compliance with its commitments no longer remain without consequences,” said Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, in a statement published on
6:40 a.m. – Kuwaiti army says it is responding to drone and missile attacks
The Kuwaiti military announced early Thursday that it had repelled “hostile missile and drone attacks” after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards vowed to retaliate for US strikes against the Islamic Republic.
“The general staff of the army specifies that the explosions heard result from the interception of hostile projectiles by air defense systems,” the armed forces indicated in a press release on X, without specifying the origin of the attacks.
6:32 a.m. – Explosions heard in Bahrain
Several explosions were heard during the night from Wednesday to Thursday by an AFP journalist in Bahrain, where the authorities had triggered air alert sirens.
The explosions came after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards vowed to retaliate for US strikes against the Islamic Republic.
6:25 a.m. – Trump threatens Iran with “much worse” strikes if its attacks continue
Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened Iran with “much worse” strikes in the event of further attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
“This is a response to yesterday’s ship bombings by Iran. If it happens again, it will be much worse! », Wrote the American president on his Truth Social platform, in the caption of a photo showing a fire near a town.
6:17 a.m. – Iran reports several explosions on its coasts
Explosions were heard at several locations along Iran’s coast as the United States launched new strikes against Iran on Wednesday evening, state media said.
Fighter jets were heard over Kish island and several explosions rocked the port towns of Bandar Abbas, Konarak and Chabahar, some of which suffered power cuts, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported.
6:15 a.m. – US military announces it has launched new strikes against Iran
The US military announced it had launched new strikes against Iran on Wednesday to “weaken Tehran’s ability” to target commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, after Donald Trump declared that Washington would “strike hard” overnight.
“US forces have begun carrying out new strikes against Iran to further weaken its ability to impede freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. The United States holds Iran responsible for recent unjustified assaults on commercial vessels and civilian crews transiting freely through a vital international shipping lane,” the US military wrote on X.
“We are going to hit them hard tonight,” the American president said earlier in the day, following the NATO summit in Ankara, while assuring that the new clashes would end “very quickly” and leaving the door open to continuing diplomatic negotiations with Tehran.
6:00 a.m. – The night’s recap
– Donald Trump said that the United States was going to hit Iran “hard” tonight, following the NATO summit in Ankara.
– The latest attacks launched by Iran did not cause any American casualties and did not cause any major damage to installations, a US military official said.
– Eight members of the Iranian armed forces were killed in the latest US strikes against Iran, state television announced.
– An Israeli drone strike killed two people in southern Lebanon despite a truce between Israel and pro-Iranian Hezbollah, the National News Agency said.
