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Yemen's internationally recognised government said its forces struck the runway at Houthi-held Sanaa airport to prevent an Iranian aircraft from landing, and all Yemeni airports were closed. The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted ballistic missiles the Houthis fired at southern Saudi Arabia, and a Houthi official threatened Saudi 'vital infrastructure'.
The UK said it would designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards under new proscription-like powers for state-backed threats, making it a criminal offence to support, assist or benefit from the group, with potential life sentences; the Iran-linked HAYI group, tied to attacks on Jewish targets in Britain, is also to be designated.
CENTCOM said it hit about 140 military targets, including missile and drone sites, naval capabilities, ammunition storage, communications and coastal surveillance, holding Iranian forces 'accountable' for the attack on the GFS Galaxy, and that more than 300 targets had been struck over three nights that week. Iranian media reported explosions along the coast, including Bandar Abbas, Qeshm and Sirik.
The IRGC Navy said the Strait of Hormuz was closed 'until further notice' and until U.S. interference ends, saying a vessel that switched off its systems on an 'illegal route' was stopped with warning shots; Fars said a cruise missile was used. CENTCOM said the IRGC attacked the Cyprus-flagged container ship GFS Galaxy, which caught fire east of Oman and could not continue, and UKMTO said its crew abandoned ship; one crew member was missing.
In his first message since his father's funeral, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei pledged to 'avenge [his] innocent blood', saying 'revenge is the will of our nation', and thanked the millions who attended the ceremonies.
Trump said Washington had agreed to continue talks after Tehran asked, while insisting the ceasefire was 'over'; Iran's foreign ministry said it had not requested negotiations but had accepted a Qatari mediators' trip. The Treasury sanctioned Ali Ansari, whom it described as overseeing a global network of assets benefiting Mojtaba Khamenei and other regime elites, citing Iran's 'resumption of attacks on international shipping'.
Iran's military said it fired 10 ballistic missiles at Jordan's Muwaffaq Salti air base, which U.S. forces use, and Jordan's army said it intercepted eight Iranian missiles with no casualties or damage. The IRGC also claimed attacks on Camp Arifjan and Ali Al Salem in Kuwait and on Juffair and Sheikh Isa in Bahrain; Kuwait said one person was wounded.
CENTCOM said it struck about 90 Iranian military targets along the coast, including air defences, coastal surveillance, missile and drone storage, naval capabilities and logistics sites. Iranian officials said the strikes killed a firefighter at Iranshahr airport, three people in Ahvaz and three at a fishing pier in Sirik, cut power in Chabahar, and satellite images later showed damage at the port of Sarkhur Tahruyi in Hormozgan.
IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez said about 6,000 seafarers remained stranded on hundreds of ships in the Gulf, condemned the attacks on ships crossing Hormuz over the previous two days as having placed them 'in grave danger', and urged flag states and owners to avoid the strait while crews' safety could not be assured.
Speaking to reporters at the NATO summit, Trump said he thought the memorandum with Iran was 'over' and that 'it's just a waste of time dealing with them', calling Iran's leaders 'sick' and 'vicious, violent people'. Later that day he said the U.S. would likely strike again that night, might reimpose the naval blockade and threatened to 'take over' Kharg Island.
CENTCOM said it hit more than 80 targets, including air defences, command networks, coastal radar and anti-ship missile sites and more than 60 IRGC small boats, in response to the attacks on three tankers; explosions were reported at Sirik, Bandar Abbas and Qeshm. The IRGC said it answered with missiles and drones at 85 sites at the Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain and Ali Al Salem air base in Kuwait, where air defences engaged.
OFAC said General License X, dated June 21, which authorised sales of Iranian oil, was revoked and superseded by General License X1 effective July 7; U.S. officials told Reuters that Iran's actions in Hormuz were 'wholly unacceptable'. Brent rose $1.87 to $76.03 in post-settlement trade.
Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya military command said any failure to comply with Iran's navigation protocols or deviation from its designated routes through the Strait of Hormuz 'will be met with an immediate and forceful response', after Iranian state TV said a ship ran aground using a route Iran had not approved.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Israel had attacked Iran twice with pre-emptive strikes and 'if necessary, we will strike a third time', and that its forces would stay indefinitely in 'security zones' in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, responding to Israeli media reports that Katz had called Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei 'marked for death', said any threat to Iran's leadership would get an 'immediate powerful response' and that Trump had committed the U.S. to restraining Israel.
Technical-level negotiations between Iran and the U.S. began in Doha with at least three working groups, on the nuclear issue, diplomacy, and the financing and return of frozen funds, and no face-to-face meetings between top officials. Qatar's foreign ministry said 'positive progress' was made and that the next meeting would be held after the funeral of Ali Khamenei.
The Terrorist Financing Targeting Center, which groups the U.S. with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman, jointly designated five entities and 16 individuals in Hezbollah's financial infrastructure, including its Al-Qard Al-Hassan lending institution, Bayt al-Mal and their senior leaders.
The UN Conference on Trade and Development published 'Strait of Hormuz Disruptions: Beyond reopening, lasting impacts on vulnerable economies', assessing the damage to import-dependent developing countries from the closure of the strait.
CENTCOM said Navy and Air Force jets struck 10 Iranian military targets in and near the Strait of Hormuz, including surveillance, communications, air defence, drone storage and minelaying capabilities, in response to the Kiku attack. The IRGC said it fired ballistic missiles and drones at Ali Al Salem air base in Kuwait and the Fifth Fleet at Bahrain's Port Salman after U.S. strikes on five coastal sites; a U.S. official said there were no American casualties.
In a televised statement, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem called the framework signed in Washington 'humiliating, shameful and a surrender of sovereignty' and 'null and void', rejected linking Israeli withdrawal to Hezbollah's disarmament and said the group would not abandon armed resistance.
Bahrain's foreign ministry condemned Iranian drone attacks on its territory in the early hours as a 'serious violation' of sovereignty that endangered civilians, and Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait and the GCC condemned them. Iran's foreign ministry said its military had struck targets linked to U.S. forces in response to U.S. strikes on its southern coast.
CENTCOM said an Iranian one-way attack drone hit the Panama-flagged tanker Kiku at 4:30 a.m. ET (08:00 GMT) as it transited near the Strait of Hormuz carrying more than 2 million barrels of crude; no crew were hurt and no leak was reported.
CENTCOM said U.S. aircraft struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites because Iran hit the Ever Lovely with a one-way attack drone on June 25, 'unwarranted aggression' that it said 'clearly violated the ceasefire'. Explosions were reported around Sirik on Iran's Hormuz coast.
After a fifth round of talks at the State Department, Israel and Lebanon signed a framework under which Israel's military would 'progressively redeploy out of the Lebanese territory' once non-state groups such as Hezbollah are disarmed; Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it set 'a clear and structured process to restore Lebanon's sovereignty'. Hezbollah was not a party, and its MP Hassan Fadlallah rejected it.
Oman's Maritime Security Centre said it was providing a temporary transit corridor through the strait in coordination with the International Maritime Organization, in line with toll-free navigation, as a UN plan to evacuate about 11,000 stranded seafarers began. The IRGC Navy said only Iran-designated routes were authorised and that ships using the new lane would be in danger.
The Treasury issued a general licence authorising the production, delivery and sale of Iranian-origin crude oil, petrochemicals and petroleum products through August 21. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Iran had committed to free and open transit of Hormuz and to admit IAEA inspectors, though Iran later said inspections would come only with a final deal.
A joint statement from Pakistan and Qatar after a 12-hour session said the sides formed a high-level committee with working groups on the nuclear file, sanctions, and monitoring and dispute resolution, agreed a roadmap to a final deal within 60 days, a communication line to avoid incidents in the Strait of Hormuz, and a de-confliction cell with Lebanon to ensure military operations there end.
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Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya central headquarters said the Strait of Hormuz was closed to vessel traffic as a 'first step' in response to Israel's attacks in Lebanon, which it called a breach of the U.S.-Iran agreement, and the IRGC Navy warned ships not to approach. CENTCOM said 55 merchant ships carrying more than 17 million barrels of oil transited that day and that Iran does not control the strait.
The White House said Vance would not fly to Switzerland because plans for the talks had not been finalised, and the Swiss foreign ministry confirmed that the meeting set for June 19 at the Buergenstock resort would not take place; Iran said it had been postponed.
The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Hezbollah-aligned Lebanese officials it said had used their influence to obstruct Lebanon's peace process and delay Hezbollah's disarmament, along with members of a Hezbollah-associated business network overseen by Alaa Hassan Hamieh.
In a written statement, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said he had 'a different opinion' on the agreement but granted permission because President Pezeshkian gave commitments on safeguarding the rights of the Iranian nation and the 'resistance front' and explicitly accepted responsibility for it. He added that face-to-face talks with the U.S. would not mean accepting 'the enemy's position'.