Al Jazeera

By Lyndal Rowlands, Zaid Sabah, Yashraj Sharma, Enes Abuomer and Rached El-Moctar

    US Central Command says it concluded latest wave of attacks on Iran, as Iranian media reports explosions across southern cities and on islands off its coast, as well as clashes between US, Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz.

    Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says, in response to US strikes, it attacked US military assets in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan overnight, claiming heavy damage to US Fifth Fleet HQ in Bahrain.

    US President Donald Trump said earlier that attacks on Iran “will continue until I say enough”, with potential targets including power plants and bridges.

    The US reimposed its blockade on Iranian ports, while Trump rolled back a plan to impose a 20 percent tariff on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

Jordanian military says it intercepted three Iranian ballistic missiles

    The Jordanian army says its air defense systems intercepted and shot down three ballistic missiles that entered Jordanian airspace from Iranian territory.

    According to the statement, Royal Engineering Corps teams handled the falling debris across several locations in accordance with approved technical and security procedures, securing the sites to ensure the safety of citizens and property.

    “The Jordanian Armed Forces rejects any violation of the Kingdom’s sovereignty or the use of its airspace to threaten its security and stability, adding that it continues to monitor the skies with the highest level of readiness,” it added.

IRGC urges Jordanians, Kuwaitis to oppose US military presence

    Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has called on Jordanians to oppose the US military presence in their country after claiming a fresh strike on a US air base at Azraq in Jordan.

    In a statement, the IRGC said it had destroyed shelters housing US F-15, F-16 and F-35 fighter jets and several MQ-9 drones during the sixth wave of its Nasr 2 operation.

    Addressing “the people of Jordan”, the IRGC urged them to end the US military presence in the country and “not allow that sacred land to become the launch point for attacks against Islamic countries”. It also called on Jordanians to “seize every opportunity” to expel US forces and target US facilities.

    In a statement addressed to the “esteemed and generous people of Kuwait”, the IRGC also claimed responsibility for attacks on US military targets in Kuwait and urged Kuwaitis to target US facilities in the country and “liberate Islamic lands from the bases of American occupiers”.

More Democrats say they’ll back vote to end funding to Israel

    US Congressman Greg Casar, who leads progressive House Democrats, has publicly voiced his support for an amendment to block some $3.3bn in funding to Israel’s military.

    “It is past time for us to end aid used to commit genocide in Gaza, kill innocents in Lebanon and beyond, and help drag us into war with Iran,” Casar said in a post on X.

    Representative Ro Khanna, who was recently detained by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, has also said he will support the amendment.

    “I cannot vote for aid to a country that committed genocide and has used tax dollars to detain Americans like me,” said Khanna.

Israeli strike kills 3, wounds several in central Gaza

    An Israeli strike on an apartment in Deir-el Balah, central Gaza, has killed three Palestinians and wounded several others, a source at Al-Aqsa Hospital told Al Jazeera.

    Ambassadors are debating “pilot zones”, which Israeli forces would leave and the Lebanese army would deploy to, with Zawtar el-Gharbiyeh and Zawtar el-Charqiyeh under consideration.

Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah warns of joining war

    Abu Mujahid al-Assaf, an official of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Iraqi armed group, has said that the launch of “a new war against Iran would trigger an immediate response from the Iraqi resistance”.

    “If a war is launched against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the participation of the resistance forces will be immediate and certain. This decision is rooted in our ideology and is not open to negotiation,” al-Assaf said in a statement, quoted by Iran’s Fars news agency.

IRGC says destroyed several targets at US Navy Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain

    Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claims it has destroyed the command and control centre, naval support management centre, warehouses, and fuel tanks at the US Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain in a “crushing response” this morning.

US military says it has completed new round of strikes against Iran

    The US military says it has completed an additional round of strikes against Iran at 10pm EST on July 14 (02:00 GMT on July 15).

    It said it hit “dozens of military targets near the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian coastal areas”.

    “US fighter aircraft, drones, and naval vessels launched precision munitions against Iranian missile and drone sites, naval capabilities, and coastal defense systems” during the seven-hour operation, US Central Command said.

    The military said that the strikes were designed “to further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping and civilian crews”.

    The action took place the same day US forces “resumed the naval blockade against vessels transiting to or from Iranian ports and coastal areas”, which “went into effect at 4 p.m. ET today [20:00 GMT on July 14]”, it said.

IRGC warns US allies’ energy export routes at risk

    Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) warned that oil and gas export routes serving the US and its allies could be targeted if the conflict continues.

    In a statement carried by state broadcaster IRIB, the IRGC said energy exports from the region should be “either for everyone or for no one”, signalling the possibility of further action against regional shipping and energy infrastructure.

US expands strikes across southern Iran in fourth night of attacks

By Tohid Asadi

Reporting from Tehran, Iran

    It has been another night of escalation, with continued US air strikes targeting several locations along Iran’s southern coast.

    Explosions have been reported on the islands of Qeshm and Hengam, near the Strait of Hormuz, as well as in the port city of Bandar Abbas. Similar reports have also emerged from Sirik, Ahvaz and Bushehr, where air defence systems were activated.

    In Dehloran, in western Ilam province, a bottled water facility was reportedly struck. Iranian sources also say a military base in Bampur, in southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province, was targeted with projectiles said to have hit soldiers’ accommodation quarters. There has been no confirmation of casualties, but there are concerns because soldiers may have been inside at the time.

    This latest round of attacks comes as Washington says its military has carried out a fourth wave of strikes against Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz.

    Iran, meanwhile, says it is continuing retaliatory operations against US military positions across the region. The Iranian army says it targeted the Azraq military base in Jordan and damaged US military assets there. Iranian sources have also reported attacks on other US bases in the region.

    The continuing exchanges are further raising tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has tightened measures and is signalling that it intends to maintain control over the strategic waterway.

Hormuz Strait to remain closed until ‘America’s evils’ end, IRGC warns

    Iran’s IRGC has said that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed “until the end of America’s evils”.

    In a statement, the IRGC said that the US military hit Iranian bases “under the pretext of hitting offending ships”, referring to the vessels attempting to transit the critical waterway, “to hide its defeat and inability”.

    However, the IRGC noted that “no ship dared to violate [the Iranian blockade] or accompany the US”. Therefore, “naturally, there were no hits”, the statement noted.

Kuwait says responding to Iranian drone attacks

    The Kuwaiti Defence Ministry says it is responding to Iranian drone attacks, adding that loud sounds heard across the country are due to interceptions.

    We will bring you more as information emerges.

IRGC claims US logistics hub in Kuwait set ‘ablaze’

    Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it has targeted “the US military’s main logistics and support centre in West Asia”, located in Mina Abdullah, Kuwait.

    In a statement carried by IRIB, the Guard said the facility was set “ablaze and destroyed” during the fourth wave of its “Nasr 2” operation.

Ilhan Omar will back vote to cut off US aid to Israel

    US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has said that she will vote yes in support of an amendment to block some $3.3bn in military aid to Israel.

    “It is unconscionable we continue to fund this genocidal apartheid regime. Voting YES,” Omar wrote on X.

    House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who opposes the measure, has said he will allow Democrats to vote their conscience on the proposal, brought forward by Republican Thomas Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna.

Iran says launched strikes on US F-18 aircraft positions at Jordan’s Azraq base

    Iran’s army says it has launched the eighth phase of its “Saeqeh” operation, carrying out a new wave of drone attacks against “US military bases” in the region.

    In a statement carried by state broadcaster IRIB, the army said explosive drones targeted areas housing F-18 fighter jets and large equipment hangars at Jordan’s Azraq airbase for the second time.

Oil prices rise as US blockades Iranian ports and Iran launches retaliatory strikes

    Oil prices have risen early on Wednesday as Trump reimposed a naval blockade on all Iranian ports and Iran launched retaliatory strikes on US bases in the region.

    Brent crude rose by $1.46, or 1.72 percent, to $86.19 a barrel as of 00:29 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) climbed $1.11, or 1.4 percent, to $80.40 a barrel.

US freezes $130m in Iran-linked crypto wallets under new sanctions

    The US Treasury Department has sanctioned “multiple wallets tied to the Central Bank of Iran, resulting in the freeze of over $130 million”, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a post on X.

    Washington is “committed to disrupting and degrading Iran’s illicit financial activities, including its abuse of digital assets”, he said.

    “We will continue to aggressively follow the money and deny the Iranian regime access to the proceeds of its illicit revenue schemes.”

Hegseth presses Iraq to disarm paramilitary groups linked to Iran

    US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hosted Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi at the Pentagon and laid out Washington’s conditions for a deeper partnership with Baghdad.

    In a post on X shortly after the meeting, Hegseth said Iraq “must assert its sovereignty and disarm the Iran-aligned militias” that he blames for frequent attacks on US forces amid the US-Israel war on Iran.

US-Israel war has granted hardliners in Iran’s government more influence

    Sina Azodi, an assistant professor of Middle East politics at George Washington University, says that the war has made hardliners within Iran’s government more powerful than those who want to negotiate a deal with the US.

    “There are factions within Iran’s political system, including the Foreign Ministry – the chief nuclear negotiator himself, Ghalibaf – and some groups within the IRGC, who argue that Iran won the war, but it needs to settle down with the United States and reach an agreement,” he told Al Jazeera.

    He says, however, that another faction, the hardliners, argues that Iran should “use its win in the war and push for kicking the United States out of the region once and for all”.

    He adds that while Iran has always been “notorious” for being slow in decision-making and factional politics, the US-Israel war has “changed everything”.

    “I believe that those who are arguing for more conflict have more power and influence at the moment.”

US Senator Schumer: ‘Democrats will not go along’ with Trump’s unauthorised war

    US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has criticised Trump for dragging the nation deeper into conflict with Iran without authorisation from Congress or an exit strategy.

    “Donald Trump is dragging America deeper into a war in Iran with no authorization, no plan, and no exit strategy. Democrats will not go along,” he wrote on X.

    He argued that the president is expecting Congress to ignore an “illegal war” just days after abandoning a ceasefire agreement and escalating the fighting.

    “We will not proceed as if business is usual while our servicemembers’ lives are at risk and Trump drives costs for groceries and gas out of control,” he added.