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President Masoud Pezeshkian wrote on X: 'If Americans are warriors, let them face our valiant military forces. Why wage war on civilian infrastructure, food supplies, and livelihoods?' He accused Washington of denying Iranians water, food and medicine and said: 'Iran won't surrender.'
Iranian state media reported two explosions off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz. Early on Sep 13, Qeshm's governor said an Iranian commercial vessel had been struck near Hengam Island and the Qeshm coast, killing one person and wounding three, and state TV blamed the 'US terrorist enemy.'
Chinese President Xi Jinping told the BRICS summit in New Delhi that the war in the Middle East and Gulf 'has caused serious losses to people across the region and does not serve the common interests of the international community,' and said China was willing to work with BRICS partners to play a role in achieving peace.
Iraq closed the Shalamcheh, al-Shib and Mandali crossings with Iran, officials said, as part of efforts to track those behind the drone attack launched from Maysan province on Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline. Reuters had first reported the Shalamcheh closure overnight.
Asked in Dublin whether Iran was responsible for the drone attack that shut Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline, Trump said 'probably, they are,' and said the Houthis had 'called us' asking the US not to get involved in Yemen. Asked about moving shipping through Hormuz, he said everything would 'work out just fine.'
The US has asked tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz to sail only at set times to be sure of military protection after Iran stepped up night attacks, the Financial Times reported. Air defence offered since May for ships hugging the Omani coast was cut to two daily time slots around the start of September, according to emails from the US naval coordination centre.
Iran used high-resolution Chinese satellite images of Jordan's Muwaffaq Salti air base for its July attack that killed three US soldiers, US officials told The Wall Street Journal. They did not identify the suppliers or allege direct Beijing involvement; Chinese officials pushed back and demanded proof.
The next round of US-brokered Israel-Lebanon talks, planned for Rome next week, was pushed to October, a US official said, citing scheduling constraints, particularly the UN General Assembly; Axios reported the Jewish holidays and a Paris conference on the Lebanese army were also factors. The two countries' ambassadors were still expected to meet at the State Department next week.
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi ordered an urgent investigation into the attack on Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline; his office later said a drone had been launched from Maysan province, dismissed the province's operations commander and set up an inquiry into the command.
The Saudi-backed government's armed forces spokesman said a bombing campaign had begun in what he called the 'kill box', the areas that had fallen to the Houthis from Mocha to Bab al-Mandeb, and warned civilians away from the Taiz-Mocha road. Over the next two days the government said its jets destroyed Houthi vehicles, weapons and fighters in Mocha and Dhubab.
At a Pentagon ceremony marking 25 years since the 9/11 attacks, Trump saluted troops working 'to ensure the world's number one sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran, will never, ever have a nuclear weapon.' Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said: 'We control the strait. We will finish this fight.'
An official from Yemen's internationally recognized government said the Houthis had taken Greater and Lesser Hanish in the southern Red Sea after seizing Perim, completing their hold on the Bab al-Mandeb approaches. Government and Houthi officials confirmed the capture to AP on Sep 14.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said maritime navigation is safe for all companies except Saudi vessels, which will only be allowed through Bab al-Mandeb when the blockade on Yemen ends, and pledged to 'enforce blockade for blockade and escalation for escalation.'
Israeli forces withdrew from the Ali al-Taher heights and repositioned to rear lines in the Shaqif area, Israel Army Radio reported; the military said it would keep fire control over the heights and confront any Hezbollah attempt to return.
Average US diesel prices passed $6 a gallon for the first time on record, according to GasBuddy data released Thursday and cited by Reuters, beating the previous week's record of $5.85.
The master of a vessel reported seeing four unknown projectiles strike two unidentified vessels about 4 nautical miles west of Khasab, on Oman's Musandam peninsula, setting one on fire, UKMTO said. The status of the second vessel was unknown.
The next round of US-brokered talks between Israel and Lebanon will be held in Rome next week over two days, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel; L'Orient Today, citing Israeli media, put the dates at Sept. 15 and 16. The State Department urged Beirut to draw up a plan to disarm Hezbollah across Lebanon.
More than 100 US military advisers are in Saudi Arabia providing intelligence and targeting support for the kingdom's campaign against the Houthis, as part of a newly formed joint forces command, CNN reported citing five sources; one US official put the number at about 200. The US is not taking part in strikes.
Iran is assembling liquid- and solid-fuel ballistic missiles from stockpiled components at several underground sites, including the Khojir complex, and is building new underground plants to avoid being struck again, US and Middle Eastern officials told The Wall Street Journal.
Brent crude futures spiked to $109.20 a barrel on Thursday, from $105.26 at midday, and settled up 6.3% at $107.63; WTI topped $100 for the first time since May and closed at $103.82. The moves followed the biggest wave of attacks on Gulf shipping of the war and the Houthi capture of Mocha.
Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdul Salam said navigation and trade in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandeb 'remain safe and uninterrupted' and called the group's offensive 'defensive' and limited to specified targets; its shipping coordination centre said its ban on Saudi vessels stays in place.
Iran temporarily suspended a 10% charge on freight fees for foreign vessels carrying oil, gas and liquid petroleum products to and from the country, Fars reported, until the government approves a list of products subject to the charge.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog met with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides and said he hopes for a future trilateral meeting including a president of Lebanon, stating: 'My dream is for the president of Israel and the president of Cyprus to meet together with the president of Lebanon here.'
Iran's overnight missile strikes on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base damaged multiple US aircraft, CBS News reported, citing sources with direct knowledge: about eight F-15s suffered light damage and returned to service, and an A-10 lost a wing. No US deaths were reported and US forces fired more than 30 Patriot interceptors.
Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other senior advisers have privately warned Trump that Iran could hold out against the blockade and military pressure, and that the war could last through the end of his term in January 2029, The Wall Street Journal reported. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
IRNA reported a loud explosion on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, and Fars reported multiple explosions in Sirik and Minab County; Hormozgan officials said the sounds came from the sea, and IRNA later said 'several areas' of Sirik were hit by 'enemy' projectiles.
Trump told reporters: 'I think war is going to end immediately after the election because they can't hold out any longer. They're desperate to try and affect the election.' He said the US was not looking for a deal with Iran but that negotiations 'could happen.'
UKMTO said several merchant vessels were hit by 'disabling fire' in the northern Gulf and Gulf of Oman. One seafarer was killed and another was missing aboard the products tanker Hercules Star at anchor off Dubai, its charterer said, and Iraqi officials said the tanker New Andros, carrying 2 million barrels of fuel oil, caught fire after a drone strike in Iraqi waters.
MarineTraffic data compiled by Al Jazeera showed 42 tankers waiting to transit the Strait of Hormuz as of Sep 7, 18 of them carrying oil with a combined capacity of about 11.1 million barrels.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in Colombia: 'Iran continues to try to hit U.S. naval ships, and for every time they do that or try to do that, they're going to lose tankers.' He repeated on Sep 9 that Iran 'pays a price in tankers' and said Washington aimed to squeeze Tehran economically.