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Houthi-run Al Masirah TV reported Saudi air strikes on Hodeidah, and the Saudi-led coalition said it hit Houthi sites 'linked to threats against commercial shipping in the Red Sea' but not the port, which stays open. Houthi media said telecommunications facilities were hit and a woman was wounded on Kamaran Island.
After CENTCOM finished its 13th straight night of strikes, Iran's army said it sent drones at U.S. facilities at Isa Air Base in Bahrain, Al-Azraq in Jordan and camps in Kuwait, and the IRGC claimed a strike on Ali Al Salem Air Base. Jordan said it intercepted seven missiles and six drones with no casualties or damage, and Kurdish officials said coalition forces downed five explosive-laden drones over Erbil between 9:32 and 9:45 a.m.
Brent crude briefly rose above $100 a barrel on Thursday before easing to $99.48 at 9:30 a.m. ET, and WTI reached $90.74, up 4.5 percent, according to FactSet data cited by CBS News. The U.S. average gasoline price hit $4.09 a gallon, up from $3.94 a week earlier.
The Lebanese army said units began deploying on Tuesday morning to Zawtar al-Gharbiya in the Nabatieh region after Israeli forces withdrew, one of three 'pilot zone' villages with Froun and Srifa where the State Department said on Monday operations had begun under the U.S.-brokered Israel-Lebanon framework. Prime Minister Nawaf Salam visited Zawtar the next day and said Beirut seeks a complete Israeli withdrawal from the south.
UKMTO said a tanker was struck by an unknown projectile about 8 nautical miles northeast of Limah, Oman, and that its crew abandoned the vessel into a lifeboat; the IMO later identified it as the Kaifan and recorded two seafarers injured. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said 'massive fires' broke out on two oil tankers that tried to use the southern route and warned that not a drop of oil would leave the region while U.S. attacks continued.
A projectile set the Maltese-flagged tanker Kavomaleas, owned by Greece's Dynacom, on fire about 8 nautical miles northwest of Kumzar, Oman; its crew abandoned ship and was picked up by a tug, UKMTO said. A second vessel, the Acheloos, was hit 17 nautical miles east of Dibba with damage to its steering gear, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards said two tankers on the southern route had 'exploded' and been halted.
After the U.S. strikes, Iran claimed missile and drone attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar and Oman, and the UAE said its air defences engaged Iranian missiles and drones. Qatar said falling debris wounded three people including a child, Oman said drones targeted sites in Musandam and summoned Iran's ambassador, and Kuwait later said three border centres and an offshore drilling platform were hit.
Iran buried Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, killed in the U.S.-Israeli strikes that opened the war on February 28, at the Imam Reza shrine in his home city of Mashhad after a funeral that moved from Tehran and Qom to Najaf and Karbala in Iraq; Iranian media put attendance at 41 to 43 million. His son and successor Mojtaba Khamenei did not appear, and U.S. and Iranian strikes resumed during the ceremonies.
UKMTO reported three tankers hit by projectiles on July 6-7, starting with the Qatari LNG carrier Al Rekayyat, which caught fire after being struck 8 nautical miles east of Oman's Limah; another was hit by a drone, and Saudi Arabia said a Saudi tanker was targeted. No injuries were reported; U.S. officials blamed Iran, while Iranian state TV said the LNG tanker was attacked after ignoring warnings without directly claiming it.
The Evergreen container ship Ever Lovely was hit on the starboard side of its bridge 3.6 nautical miles off Oman's Khawr Naiwah after passing through Hormuz; its crew was unharmed and it continued. IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez paused the UN plan to evacuate about 11,000 seafarers stranded in the Gulf, and Trump said the next day that Iran had launched four drones at ships, one of which hit.
Vice President JD Vance and an Iranian delegation led by parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi began the first high-level round under the memorandum at the Buergenstock resort, with Pakistan's prime minister and Qatar's prime minister mediating. During the session Trump posted that Iran must stop 'their highly paid proxies in Lebanon from causing trouble' or 'we'll hit Iran very hard again', and Iran said its delegation then refused to continue four-way talks.
A senior U.S. official said Israel and Hezbollah had agreed to a ceasefire from 4 p.m. local time, worked out by U.S. and Qatari negotiators with help from Iran, and a senior Israeli official confirmed it. Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli strikes since midnight had killed 47 people in the south and the Bekaa, after four Israeli soldiers were killed in fighting in south Lebanon.
Iran's foreign ministry and the White House confirmed that Presidents Trump and Pezeshkian had signed the memorandum electronically, Trump at the Palace of Versailles after the G7 and Pezeshkian in Tehran, so no signing ceremony would be held in Switzerland. Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the mediator, said the 'Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding' entered into force with immediate effect, beginning with Iran reopening Hormuz and the U.S. lifting its naval blockade.
Israeli warplanes hit what the military called a Hezbollah command centre in the Ghobeiry area of Dahiyeh after Hezbollah drones crossed into northern Israel, killing at least two people and wounding four, Lebanon's National News Agency said. Trump urged all sides to 'stand down', saying the drone attack Israel was answering 'was very small and meaningless' and that 'there should be no more attacks by Israel anywhere in Lebanon'.
The Israeli military ordered residents of 20 towns and villages in the Nabatieh and Jezzine districts, including Deir al-Zahrani and Nabatieh al-Fawqa, to move north of the Zahrani River. Strikes that followed killed at least five people, including one in Maarakeh, the mayor of Rihan and two in Deir al-Zahrani, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.
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CENTCOM said it began 'additional self-defense strikes' at 5:15 p.m. ET against multiple targets in Iran at Trump's direction, in response to Iran's 'continued aggression'; Iranian media reported explosions on Qeshm and Hengam islands, in Bandar Abbas, Kangan and Sirik.
The IAEA Board of Governors passed a resolution submitted by the U.S., UK, France and Germany demanding that Iran urgently declare its remaining enriched uranium and give inspectors all the access they need, by 21 votes to three with 10 abstentions; Russia, China and Niger voted against. Iran's mission in Vienna called it 'political' and said Iran would protect its 'inalienable rights', and its ambassador said the resolution was an obstacle to talks with Washington.
UKMTO reported an engine-room fire on a Palau-flagged tanker about 20 nautical miles northeast of Oman's Sohar, and CENTCOM later said a U.S. aircraft fired precision munitions into the engine room of the M/T Settebello, which it said was carrying Iranian oil and had repeatedly ignored U.S. directions, the eighth ship disabled under the blockade. India said 21 of its sailors were rescued and three were missing, and summoned a senior U.S. diplomat; the IMO secretary-general condemned any act endangering seafarers.
CENTCOM said Air Force and Navy jets began 'self-defense strikes' at 5 p.m. ET on Iranian air defence, ground control and surveillance radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz, calling them a proportional response to the Apache's downing and to attacks on shipping, and declared them completed about four hours later. Iranian media reported explosions in Sirik, Bandar Abbas, Qeshm, Jask and Minab across second and third waves, and Fars said two water tanks in Sirik's Bemani district were destroyed.
An Israeli strike on the al-Masaken residential area of Tyre killed eight people and wounded 35, including three children, and a separate strike on el-Buss in the Tyre district killed three and wounded nine, Lebanon's National News Agency and Health Ministry said. Two Lebanese Red Cross paramedics were wounded when a vehicle near their base in Tyre was hit.
A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache went down off Oman near the Strait of Hormuz on the evening of June 8, U.S. time, and CENTCOM said an unmanned surface vessel from Task Force 59 rescued both crew members within about two hours, the first such rescue by a drone; the crew were in stable condition. CENTCOM said the cause was under investigation.
Israeli forces led by the Golani Brigade captured the Beaufort ridge and its Crusader-era castle near Nabatieh, about 15 km from the border, after crossing the Litani River in an operation the military said had begun days earlier under a news blackout; Defence Minister Israel Katz said troops would stay there as part of Israel's security zone. Israel last held the castle from 1982 until its withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000.
The Israeli army said it carried out a "targeted strike" on an apartment in Choueifat, south of Beirut; Israeli media reported the target as Ali al-Husseini, head of Hezbollah's missile unit, while the Times of Israel named Ali al-Husni of the Iran-linked Imam Hossein Division. Lebanon's Health Ministry said a woman, her baby daughter and a Syrian child were killed and 15 wounded.
CENTCOM said Iran launched a ballistic missile toward Kuwait that Kuwaiti forces intercepted, calling it an "egregious ceasefire violation". The IRGC said it struck the "American airbase" used in the Bandar Abbas attack; no damage to U.S. facilities was reported, and the GCC condemned the "criminal Iranian attacks" on Kuwait.
Fars reported three explosions east of Bandar Abbas at about 1:30 a.m. local time. CENTCOM said Iranian forces launched five one-way attack drones in and near Hormuz, all intercepted, and that U.S. forces prevented a sixth launch from a ground site in Bandar Abbas; a U.S. official said four drones were downed and a ground station about to launch a fifth was hit.
Israel ordered residents of Nabatieh, the south's second-largest city, to move north of the Zahrani River and issued warnings for at least 50 towns, as troops clashed with Hezbollah along the Litani and pushed toward Zawtar al-Sharqiyah. Lebanon's Health Ministry said strikes killed 31 people, 14 of them in Burj al-Shamali near Tyre.
CENTCOM said U.S. forces carried out self-defense strikes in southern Iran on missile launch sites and boats trying to lay mines, while "using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire"; explosions were reported around Bandar Abbas. An IRGC-affiliated channel named four navy personnel it said were killed south of Larak Island, and Iran's Foreign Ministry called the strikes a "grave violation of the ceasefire".
When trading resumed on Sunday evening Brent futures fell $4.64 to $98.90 a barrel by 22:03 GMT and U.S. crude to $92.18; by Monday afternoon Brent was down nearly 7% at $96.30. CBS reported that a draft proposal had Iran reopening the strait immediately and restoring pre-war traffic within 30 days.
The four-week review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ended without consensus, its president Do Hung Viet of Vietnam said, citing as "a very important reason" a draft provision that Iran "can never seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons". It was the third consecutive review conference to fail.
Field Marshal Asim Munir arrived in Tehran and met Foreign Minister Araghchi late into the night, then Speaker Ghalibaf, President Pezeshkian and Interior Minister Momeni. Pakistan's military said on May 23 the intensive talks had brought "encouraging progress towards a final understanding", and Reuters said Iran and Pakistan then sent a revised proposal to Washington.