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Iran's Health Ministry spokesman Hossein Kermanpour said 'Iran had a peaceful night,' and CENTCOM did not announce a new round after 13 straight nights of strikes. Saudi Civil Defense sounded alerts in Yanbu and Jizan and later lifted them, and Bahrain issued missile alerts, with no casualties reported.
OFAC designated four individuals and nine entities in Babak Zanjani's sanctions-evasion network, including his Iran-based 'Dot One' conglomerate and companies outside Iran supporting his already-sanctioned Zedcex and Zedxion digital asset exchanges. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the regime is paying 'a steep economic price' with the rial at another record low.
The Council of the EU listed five judges of Iran's revolutionary courts who it said imposed death sentences, long prison terms and flogging on dissidents and religious minorities, and Nima Salehi, founder of the 'Ashiyane' cyber group, which it said works with Iran's cyber police and the IRGC.
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Trump wrote on Truth Social that Xi Jinping told him in Beijing in May that China would not 'under any circumstances' supply weapons to Iran and that Vladimir Putin said the same, adding, 'I take him at his word.' Later on Friday he said, 'I trust them,' though Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said China and Russia are 'enabling what Iran is doing' at different levels.
An Omani delegation arrived in Iran to discuss a framework 'to establish appropriate mechanisms for managing ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz,' IRNA reported. Iran's foreign ministry said several rounds were held on Friday and Saturday with some progress and proposals exchanged, and two regional sources told CBS the talks were moving in a positive direction but needed more time.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards told 'the general public in countries where American soldiers are stationed to immediately stay out of a radius of 500 meters' from places where U.S. troops are, 'in order to be safe.' The warning came as Jordan, Gulf states and Iraq's Kurdistan region reported Iranian missile and drone attacks.
Speaking at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation foreign ministers' meeting in Kyrgyzstan, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said 'any participation, cooperation or assistance in committing aggression against Iran will create international responsibility for the relevant parties,' and that Iran reserves the right to take all necessary measures in self-defence.
Trump told Axios he was considering 'a massive attack. Bigger than ever before,' that he was close to a decision and that Iran's leaders 'haven't received enough pain yet.' He said Israel would join 'in two minutes if I ask them to' but that the United States did not need anyone.
The House adopted Rep. Pramila Jayapal's resolution directing Trump to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran without congressional authorization, with Republicans Tom Barrett, Brian Fitzpatrick, Warren Davidson and Thomas Massie voting yes. Later on Thursday the Senate voted 49-47 against advancing a similar Democratic resolution, so the measure cannot take effect.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman signed a peaceful nuclear cooperation agreement and a safeguards agreement, the Energy Department said. U.S. companies would run nuclear power in Saudi Arabia, and uranium enrichment on Saudi soil could follow, controlled by a contracted company and only after a lengthy study.
Trump wrote on Truth Social that from now on, any Iranian missile, rocket or drone attack on a ship in the Strait of Hormuz would bring U.S. strikes to 'bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT,' including in or near Tehran. A military source quoted by Tasnim replied that Iran would strike infrastructure and bridges across the region, including energy facilities in which the U.S. has interests; CENTCOM began a 12th straight night of strikes that evening.
The Defense Department said Army Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, 28, of Ozone Park, New York, missing since Iran's July 17 missile strike on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, is believed to have been killed. She is the third soldier believed killed in that attack; counting a soldier who died in Iraq while disposing of an Iranian drone, 18 U.S. service members are believed to have died in the war.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Senate Appropriations Committee the war with Iran has cost $37.5 billion, including expected costs such as troop pay through the end of the fiscal year, up from $29 billion in May. He and Gen. Dan Caine were defending the administration's request for supplemental war funding, and Hegseth acknowledged some Iranian missiles had survived because they are buried underground.
Hours after hosting Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White House, Trump said on Truth Social he was directing his administration to allow all U.S. airlines to fly directly to Lebanon, a service first suspended in 1985. At the meeting Trump said he would speak to Hezbollah if Aoun wanted him to, and Aoun pressed for continued U.S. support for the Lebanese army, which is meant to disarm the group.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree declared a 'maritime embargo against the criminal Saudi enemy' effective immediately, after the two sides traded fire the previous week, including a strike on Sanaa airport the Houthis blamed on Riyadh. A Houthi media official said the Bab el-Mandeb would be closed to Saudi ships, and Saudi Arabia condemned the move.
CENTCOM said a U.S. service member died on July 18 in northern Iraq during the controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone, and that another was wounded.
An Israeli military official said the U.S. had decided to reinforce its fleet of aerial refuelling aircraft stationed in Israel, and another senior official said dozens more were expected; Axios had reported the move was ahead of a potential expansion of operations against Iran.
Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said multiple projectiles hit the under-construction Darkhovin nuclear power plant site in Khuzestan at 3:39 a.m. local time. The IAEA said it was looking into the reports, that the site was in the very early stages of construction and held no nuclear material when last visited, and that no radiological risk was expected.
CENTCOM said U.S. forces began new strikes at 6 p.m. ET at Trump's direction to degrade Iran's ability to threaten shipping in Hormuz and to 'swiftly punish' the IRGC forces it blamed for killing U.S. troops in Jordan; it later said coastal surveillance, air defence, maritime and missile and drone storage sites were hit. Iranian media reported explosions at Qeshm, Bandar Abbas, Sirik, Hajiabad and Shadegan.
CENTCOM said two U.S. service members in Jordan were killed in action on July 17 as U.S. and partner forces defended against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks, and that another was missing in action.
Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said Iran had suspended its commitments and implementation of the Islamabad memorandum because the U.S. had violated and suspended all of its own, and that Iran was 'busy defending the country'. Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written statement that repeated U.S. breaches showed the U.S. president's signature was 'worthless and invalid'.
Kuwait's electricity ministry said a fire broke out at a power and water desalination plant after a new round of Iranian attacks, forcing it to disconnect generating units, a day after another plant was damaged. Kuwait Petroleum Corporation said a vital oil site was hit, injuring several people, and Kuwait Airways suspended flights at Kuwait International Airport.
U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil exports came back into full effect on July 17, the date U.S. officials gave when Washington revoked the licence that had allowed Iranian oil sales under the memorandum.
CENTCOM said it carried out a sixth consecutive night of strikes on Iran, with Iranian media reporting hits on a bridge at Bandar-e Khamir, where seven people were killed, and on Qeshm, Bushehr and Ahvaz. Iran's army and the IRGC claimed attacks on U.S. sites in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Jordan and on the al-Tanf base in Syria, which Syria denied.
CENTCOM said a U.S. aircraft fired Hellfire missiles into the smokestack of the unladen, Curacao-flagged tanker Belma after it ignored warnings while sailing toward Kharg Island. An Iranian official said the tanker was hit again by two U.S. missiles two days later, and U.S. Marines released video of boarding a tanker in the Gulf of Oman.
After two days of U.S.-brokered talks in Rome, Israel and Lebanon agreed to enforce two pilot zones in southern Lebanon that Israel says are clear of Hezbollah and will hand to the Lebanese army; the U.S. said the sides agreed the structure and guidelines for a limited Israeli troop withdrawal. No timeline was set, and Israel wants a verification process.
The Treasury and State Department designated more than 50 individuals, entities and vessels in the sanctions-evasion network of Iranian shipping magnate Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani, which Washington called a major enabler of Iran's oil exports, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said wallets tied to Iran's central bank holding over $130 million were frozen. The next day the Treasury sanctioned a network in Iran, Russia and Nigeria it said helped the IRGC procure weapons.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said Iran was under no obligation to adhere to the memorandum because the U.S. had 'not only violated' it 'but also dismantled it', and that Iran would exert full control over the Strait of Hormuz.
The UAE's defence ministry said Iranian cruise missiles targeted two of its oil tankers in Omani waters in the Strait of Hormuz, killing an Indian crew member aboard the tanker Mombasa and wounding eight people; ADNOC said two of its tankers were hit. The IRGC said it attacked two supertankers crossing with their transponders off.
Trump posted that the U.S. was 'reinstating' the blockade of Iran and, as 'THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT', would be reimbursed 20% on all cargo shipped. The U.S.-led maritime centre said enforcement on all Iranian ports and coastal areas would begin at 20:00 GMT on July 14 while neutral transit continued; the next day Trump dropped the fee in favour of 'trade and investment' deals with Gulf states.