{"id":1523624,"date":"2026-07-12T05:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1523624"},"modified":"2026-07-12T05:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:09:23","slug":"us-attacks-iran-over-ship-being-hit-in-strait-of-hormuz-tehran-lashes-out-again-at-gulf-arab-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1523624","title":{"rendered":"US attacks Iran over ship being hit in Strait of Hormuz; Tehran lashes out again at Gulf Arab states"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A pro-government demonstrator wears an Iranian flag as she holds a religious flag in a gathering commemorating the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a square in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo\/Vahid Salemi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 The United States attacked Iran early Sunday morning over an Iranian strike on a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz that set the container ship ablaze and forced its crew to abandon it. Iran responded with attacks targeting several countries in the Gulf, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman.<\/p>\n

The outburst of fighting raised new questions about efforts to reach a permanent end to a war that began on Feb. 28. The strait, a key transit route for oil and natural gas, has become the key sticking point in negotiations, and repeated fighting over the past week has left negotiations in danger of collapse.<\/p>\n

The U.S. military\u2019s Central Command said it hit some 140 targets in Sunday\u2019s strikes, far more than in the two previous rounds of attacks, and went after missile and drone launch sites, ammunition dumps, communication equipment and other sites. It said the attacks would weaken Iran\u2019s ability to threaten civilian shipping.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran made a poor choice. Now they pay,\u201d U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote online.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has launched three rounds of airstrikes targeting Iran in the last week over Iranian attacks on ships heading through the strait using a route seeking to avoid the Islamic Republic\u2019s territorial waters. Iran retaliated by attacking nations in the region hosting U.S. military forces, while insisting it alone must control the strait and potentially charge vessels for traveling through it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe era of one-sided deals is OVER,\u201d Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, the speaker of Iran\u2019s parliament and a main negotiator, wrote Sunday. \u201cWe told you: keep your word or pay the price. Reality is knocking.\u201d<\/p>\n

About a fifth of all traded oil and natural gas passed through the strait before the war began. Iran\u2019s grip on it during the war led to a global energy crisis, though oil prices have sharply dropped since wartime highs of $120 a barrel.<\/p>\n

Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman get attacked<\/strong><\/p>\n

Missile alerts sounded across several Gulf Arab nations early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Qatar’s military said it intercepted incoming Iranian fire, with explosions heard in the neighboring United Arab Emirates. Three people, including a child, were wounded as a result of falling shrapnel from the interception of Iranian attacks, Qatar’s Interior Ministry said, giving no further details on their conditions.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, missile alerts sounded for the third time on Sunday in Bahrain, an island kingdom in the Persian Gulf home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet. Kuwait’s military also said it was intercepting incoming fire.<\/p>\n

The Omani state news agency said drones struck sites in northeastern Oman, in the area that sits on the Strait of Hormuz. Iran had previously claimed attacks on Oman. The attack came after the two countries held talks on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Sirens also sounded in the United Arab Emirates, but the government said missiles did not cross into UAE borders. The UAE so far hasn’t been targeted in the most recent round of Iranian attacks. The last attack on the Emirates, home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, came in May when a drone sparked a fire on the edge of the country’s sole nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n

Iran also made a series of claims about attacks elsewhere that were not immediately confirmed.<\/p>\n

In the Strait of Hormuz attack, a Cyprus-flagged container ship was hit by Iran and suffered \u201csignificant engineroom damage\u201d and a civilian crew member was missing, U.S. Central Command said early Sunday morning. All of the crew, including the missing member, were Indian nationals, according to India’s Ministry of External Affairs.<\/p>\n

India condemned the attack and said it was working with Oman on a search-and-rescue operation. It called for \u201cfree and unimpeded\u201d navigation through the strait.<\/p>\n

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center, overseen by the British military, said the ship had been traveling on a route hugging the shoreline of Oman. That’s been the way ships have entered and exited the Persian Gulf while avoiding Iranian territorial waters.<\/p>\n

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said multiple vessels \u201cdisregarded our warnings and instructions to correct their course and proceed along the approved route.\u201d One of them \u201cwas struck by a warning shot and brought to a stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran said that the strait would remain closed \u201cuntil further notice\u201d and said it would consider targeting \u201cadditional enemy bases in the region\u201d if it faced more attacks.<\/p>\n

Iranian state media reported U.S. strikes across swathes of the entire country, including southern Iran in the province closest to the Strait of Hormuz, and military sites in a province near Tehran.<\/p>\n

Attacks followed more diplomatic talks about the strait<\/strong><\/p>\n

The latest violence followed Iran and Oman\u2019s foreign ministers meeting on Saturday to discuss the strait. The narrow strait sits in both Iran and Oman’s territorial waters, but has long been considered an international waterway.<\/p>\n

Oman said it and Iran agreed to continue discussing the Strait of Hormuz \u201cat the technical and political levels.\u201d However, Iran offered no statement about the strait being open to all \u2014 something sought by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested last week that an interim deal in the Iran war was \u201cover.\u201d But mediators, including Pakistan, Qatar and Egypt, have continued efforts to reach an agreement.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s new supreme leader, still unseen since the war began, also vowed in his first statement since the funeral of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that Iranians would avenge his killing in the war\u2019s opening strikes on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n

Such revenge \u201cis the will of our nation and must certainly be carried out,\u201d Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said in a statement carried on state television.
\nUS questions who is in charge in Iran<\/p>\n

U.S. officials, speaking Friday on condition of anonymity about the current situation with Iran, said the resumption of strikes even before the latest round came as a result of what they described as a rogue faction of Iranian hard-liners who were trying to sabotage the ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Iran has insisted its theocracy is unified under the new supreme leader.<\/p>\n

The strikes in Iran over two rounds of strikes last week killed at least 17 people and wounded 115 others, Iranian Health Ministry spokesperson Hossein Kermanpour said.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Weissert reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Samy Magdy in Cairo and Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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