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Jordan's military said air defences and the Royal Jordanian Air Force intercepted 20 missiles launched from Iran toward the Azraq area of Zarqa governorate at dawn, and that falling debris caused no injuries or damage. The IRGC had said it fired 12 ballistic missiles at U.S. aircraft at al-Azraq air base, and the U.S. Embassy told Americans in Jordan to shelter in place.
Bahrain's interior ministry said an 11-year-old girl was injured and several homes and vehicles were damaged by falling debris after air defences intercepted Iranian drones over Manama and Hamad Town. Iranian state media said the drones targeted the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, which is headquartered in Bahrain.
India's shipping minister Sarbananda Sonowal said three Indian crew members of the Palau-flagged MT Settebello, first reported missing after a U.S. strike, were confirmed dead after their bodies were found and identified. CENTCOM said a U.S. aircraft fired into the tanker's engine room after it violated the blockade on Iranian ports; India lodged a 'strong protest'.
Kuwait's army said air defences engaged 'hostile aerial targets' after the IRGC claimed strikes on U.S. forces at Ali Al Salem and Ahmad al-Jaber air bases, and the civil aviation authority closed the airspace and diverted flights for several hours. The army later said it had handled 24 Iranian drones in two days with limited damage and no casualties, but the aviation authority told ICAO that the attack had hit Kuwait International Airport's radar that morning, injuring people and seriously damaging air-traffic equipment.
U.S. Central Command said its forces had completed strikes on Iranian military surveillance capabilities, communication systems and air defence sites across Iran, with Marine Corps, Air Force and Navy assets firing precision munitions. It called the strikes a response to Iran's 'unwarranted and continued aggression'; Iranian media reported explosions in Tehran, Bandar Abbas and along the Hormuz coast.
As U.S. strikes resumed, Iran's top joint military command said the Strait of Hormuz was closed to the passage of any vessel, including oil tankers, and that ships trying to pass would be targeted; Tasnim then said the IRGC Navy struck two 'violating ships'. CENTCOM said commercial ships were still transiting the strait and that no U.S. warships had been hit.
Speaking outside CENTCOM headquarters in Tampa, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. would be 'hitting Iran hard' that night with 'strong' and 'clear' strikes on key facilities, that 'if we need to negotiate with bombs, we'll negotiate with bombs', and that Iran still had an opportunity to make a deal. He said the U.S. controls the Strait of Hormuz and has been able to move oil in and out 'for weeks and weeks'.
Defence Minister Israel Katz told a ceremony in Jerusalem that 'the campaign against Iran is far from over', that Israel must not think the war was done, and that if Iran attacked Israel again it would suffer a strong response; he also praised the army's blows against Hezbollah.
Trump posted that he had directed a 'secret mission' in which the U.S. military helped oil tankers and other ships through the Strait of Hormuz, claiming more than 200 commercial ships and over 100 million barrels had passed and that the U.S., 'NOT Iran', controls the strait. He gave no evidence; AP said the figure could not be confirmed, and a CENTCOM spokesman said only that U.S. forces 'communicate and coordinate' with commercial ships.
Times of Israel / Reuters, Associated Press live coverage +5 more
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned nine individuals and entities it said supported weapons procurement for the IRGC and Iran's defence ministry, including China- and Hong Kong-based people and companies and a Hong Kong firm in Iran's clandestine banking network that attempted procurement-related transactions.
Trump posted that Iran had 'taken too long to negotiate a deal' and would 'have to pay the price', and later told reporters in the Oval Office that 'we're going to be attacking them, and attacking them very hard', citing the helicopter as grounds and accusing Iran of 'playing us for suckers'. President Masoud Pezeshkian replied that Iran would stand firm against any pressure or threat.
Addressing the UN Security Council, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the week had brought 'wider attacks and further deterioration' that could trigger a full resumption of conflict, warned against letting 'a lesser fire' become 'full war', and said 'a brutal price' was being paid by the region's people and spreading to the wider world through food and fuel costs.
United Nations Secretary-General, The Guardian live coverage +4 more
Consumer prices rose 4.2 percent in May from a year earlier, up from 3.8 percent in April, the Labor Department said, and 0.5 percent on the month; AP attributed the rise mainly to gas prices pushed up by the war.
The Israeli military confirmed that Ramat David air base in northern Israel was hit during Iran's missile fire earlier in the week, after satellite images appeared to show damage. A military official told AFP the impact was in a non-critical area, most likely from a large piece of shrapnel, with no damage to equipment or personnel, and that it was under investigation.
Times of Israel citing IDF, Times of Israel / AFP satellite analysis +5 more
Sirens sounded in Shlomi in northern Israel over a suspected drone from Lebanon, and the Israeli military said the drone was intercepted over southern Lebanon near its troops without crossing into Israel.
The Israeli military said troops detained two suspects who approached forces operating in southern Lebanon and transferred them to Israel for questioning 'to rule out any threat'.
Foreign Minister Joe Rajji told a French National Assembly hearing that direct negotiations between the Lebanese government and Israel were 'the only way' to restore peace, that Hezbollah was trying to block them, and that the military option had proved ineffective.
The U.S., UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and 18 other countries condemned lethal plotting in Europe, North America and Australia by Iran's IRGC intelligence organisation, Quds Force and intelligence ministry against dissidents, journalists and Jewish and Israeli communities. The statement singled out attacks claimed by the Iran-linked group HAYI, including arson and stabbings targeting Jewish communities in the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands.
GOV.UK (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), The Guardian live coverage +1 more
Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the U.S. was harming the diplomatic process with 'contradictory messages, frequent changes in positions and demands, and frequent violations of the ceasefire', that Israel was doing the same in Lebanon, and that 'following overnight events, we need to reassess'.
The Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesperson told residents of Ghassaniyeh and Houmine al-Faouqa to move at least one kilometre away, and minutes later ordered Ansarieh evacuated north of the Zahrani River, citing Hezbollah ceasefire violations.
Times of Israel citing IDF, Times of Israel citing IDF (2) +4 more
Iran's foreign ministry said regional countries, particularly in the Gulf, had a 'legal and moral responsibility' to prevent the U.S. and Israel from using their territory or facilities to attack Iran, hours after Iranian drones and missiles were fired at U.S. bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan.
Vice President JD Vance told CBS News that a deal with Iran 'could happen in the next week, but the deal could also happen months from now', that the U.S. was 'very close' to its goal but 'still got some wood to chop', and that much would be clear before the November midterm elections.
The IRGC said it launched drones at the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and missiles at an air base in Jordan hosting U.S. forces, claiming 21 targets hit including F-35 hangars, while Bahrain sounded sirens and Kuwait's air defences engaged 'hostile aerial targets'. Jordan said it shot down five Iranian missiles aimed at al-Azraq with no casualties, a U.S. official said nearly all the missiles and drones were intercepted, and a missile fell in a field near Damascus.
As U.S. strikes hit southern Iran, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted that 'our powerful armed forces will leave no attack or threat unanswered' and told the U.S.: 'Leave our region if you want to be safe.'
Israel's Home Front Command issued a precautionary alert for northern communities over launches from Lebanon, and the military said air defences intercepted a Hezbollah rocket fired at troops in south Lebanon; the launch triggered an early warning in the Kiryat Shmona area but no sirens.
Iran's deputy foreign minister told Al Jazeera that Iran did not deliberately target the U.S. Apache and was not behind the incident, but that such incidents could happen 'unintentionally' given the tension in the area. A military source told Iranian state media that no offensive air operations had been carried out in the Strait of Hormuz in the previous 24 hours.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration said Middle East oil producers had cut output by more than 11 million barrels a day with the Strait of Hormuz blocked, lowered its forecast so that global demand this year is 1.1 million barrels a day below last year, and said OECD oil inventories were expected to fall to their lowest since 2003.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on X that foreign forces near Iran's territory were 'at constant risk on account of their own human errors, plain accidents, or potentially being caught in crossfire', and repeated that Hormuz is an Iranian-Omani waterway, not international waters. Shortly before Trump's post, parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf wrote: 'We prefer the language of diplomacy, but we speak other languages far more fluently.'
IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez said he was increasingly concerned that ships kept trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz without credible security guarantees, that 'safe passage cannot be considered to exist', and that no commercial consideration justified exposing seafarers to such danger. The same day U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said ship traffic through the strait was rising 'very meaningfully'.
Lebanon's presidency said President Joseph Aoun and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the situation in Lebanon and the region and the U.S.-mediated negotiations between Lebanon and Israel in a phone call that afternoon.