US Strike Wave Continues as Blockade Enforcement Hits Tankers
After the mid-July blockade restart, US forces disabled tankers running to Iranian ports and kept nightly strikes going, while Iran hit US-linked sites around the Gulf.
After the mid-July blockade restart, US forces disabled tankers running to Iranian ports and kept nightly strikes going, while Iran hit US-linked sites around the Gulf.
Late June attacks on Ever Lovely and tanker Kiku led to US coastal strikes and Iranian hits on Gulf bases, before both sides agreed to hold talks again.
Iranian state TV IRINN broadcast a map showing eight energy facilities across Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Kuwait that will be targeted if the ceasefire collapses. The list includes Abqaiq, the world's largest crude stabilization plant processing 7% of global supply. Analysts warn a simultaneous strike would cause an unprecedented energy shock.
Iranian missile and drone strikes struck critical infrastructure across the Gulf on Day 35 of the US-Israeli war on Iran, hitting a Kuwait desalination plant, the Al-Ahmadi oil refinery, and cloud data centers in the UAE and Bahrain.
Iranian retaliatory strikes hit military and civilian targets across five Gulf Cooperation Council states, killing foreign workers and disrupting economies