Strikes, attacks, interceptions, deployments, and security incidents.
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Energy Minister Eli Cohen told Ynet that if Iran tries to revive its nuclear or ballistic missile programs, "even if there is an agreement with the United States, we will be there to attack". He said the war had set Iran's nuclear program back by two to four years.
In a video posted Thursday evening, CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper said Navy divers and SEALs, backed by U.S. aircraft, had cleared Iranian sea mines from the Strait of Hormuz's international shipping lanes, declaring that 'today, international shipping lanes are open.' He said U.S. forces had helped nearly 1,500 commercial vessels carrying about 750 million barrels of crude through the strait, while the blockade of Iranian ports stays in force.
A U.S. defense official in Europe and a NATO official told AP that American forces in Europe face a "beyond critical" shortage of advanced interceptors, especially Patriots, after stocks were moved to the Middle East to counter Iranian missiles and drones.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group is expected to leave San Diego in the coming weeks for a deployment of more than seven months, relieving the USS George Washington, which recently replaced the USS Abraham Lincoln in the region, U.S. Naval Institute News and CNN reported.
Hezbollah launched two explosive drones at Israeli troops on the Ali al-Taher ridge overnight, causing no injuries, the IDF said, and Israel then struck what it called Hezbollah weapons stores in the Nabatieh area. Lebanon's state media reported strikes on the ridge, Mansouri, Zawtar al-Sharqiyah and Mayfadoun, and the health ministry said a woman was killed and six wounded in and around Arab Salim.
Lebanon's National News Agency reported overnight air strikes on al-Qantara in Marjayoun, tank shelling of Mansouri south of Tyre, demolition blasts on the outskirts of Srebbine in Bint Jbeil and artillery fire near Haddatha early on Wednesday.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told foreign counterparts that Washington does not plan new offensive strikes on Iran for now and will focus on economic pressure and moving oil through the Strait of Hormuz, Axios and Israel's Channel 12 reported, citing sources; he did not rule out force if Iran attacks first.
President Trump said on Truth Social that "all mines have been removed and/or detonated from within the International Waters of the Strait of Hormuz" and that any ship or boat placing new mines "will be immediately and systematically destroyed" under a "Zero Tolerance" policy. U.S. officials told Axios the Navy had cleared mines from the strait's main traffic separation scheme.
Israeli warplanes struck a house in the al-Deir neighbourhood of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, and Israeli forces shelled the area around the Ali al-Taher ridge and the heights of Doha Kfar Remman, Lebanon's National News Agency said; casualties were unclear. The same area had been hit by overnight air strikes and shelling the night before.
A day after his television interview, security council secretary Mohsen Rezaei wrote on X: 'If the economic war continues, not a single drop of oil will be exported, neither through the Strait of Hormuz nor from anywhere in the Persian Gulf. Iran will regard any country's participation in or support for America's economic war against the Iranian people as an act of war.'
Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, said on state television that 'any country participating in the imposition of economic restrictions against us is considered an enemy' and that Iran would harm its interests. If neighbours joined the U.S. 'economic war,' he said, 'we will not allow a single drop of oil to pass through the Persian Gulf,' and he threatened the alternative routes Gulf states use to export around Hormuz.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said two drones hit a 'sensitive' target at Najran airport and a facility of Saudi Aramco in the same city, in response to Saudi drone flights over Yemen's Saada province. Saudi Arabia did not confirm any strike.
CENTCOM said the USS George Washington carrier strike group was operating in the Middle East 'after arriving in the CENTCOM theater yesterday,' to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln after its nearly nine-month deployment. A U.S. official said later that day the Lincoln had begun heading home.
The Financial Times reported, citing two people close to Iran's leadership, that Iranian forces had assessed striking U.S. assets in Europe if Trump escalated, naming Bulgaria's Bezmer air base, used by U.S. refueling aircraft, as well as Cyprus and undersea cables in Hormuz. A NATO official said the alliance is 'prepared to address any threat,' noting it intercepted Iranian ballistic missiles heading to Turkey four times earlier this year.
The UAE Defense Ministry said its air defenses detected two ballistic missiles launched from Iran that were 'targeting maritime navigation,' one falling outside and one inside UAE territorial waters, with no damage or casualties reported. Iran's foreign ministry called the accusation 'baseless' and warned of 'false-flag operations.'
Trump told Fox News' Trey Yingst, 'If Oman gets in the way, we'll bomb the s--- out of them,' hours after Iran said it had agreed a transit route map with Oman. Later in the Oval Office he said Oman had not 'behaved very well' but the U.S. would 'handle them very easily'; he had made a similar threat against Oman in May.
Iraq's Kurdistan counterterrorism service said drones launched from the Iranian border targeted Prime Minister Masrour Barzani's office and the home of the head of the Parastin intelligence agency, with no casualties. Barzani said the attacks were Iranian and a 'serious escalation'; Iran's foreign ministry called the incident 'highly suspicious' and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned of 'false-flag ploys.'
Army chief Maj. Gen. Amir Hatami said at a ceremony in Tehran that anyone who kills or captures and hands over 'an invading American military personnel' will receive the equivalent of $30,000, or 5 billion tomans, doubled if the act is carried out by a woman. He also said U.S. forces will not be allowed back into the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman or the Strait of Hormuz, calling control of the strait a 'sacred' lever for ending the war.
Israeli dawn strikes on a house near Ansar and on Deir ez-Zahrani in the Nabatieh district killed at least 11 people, including women and children, and wounded 19, Lebanon's Health Ministry said. Israel said it was responding to a Hezbollah explosive-drone attack that wounded three soldiers, and said it killed Radwan Force battalion commander Ali Samir al-Haj Hassan at Ansar; on Aug. 16 it said it had also killed Abu Hassan Alaa, a senior commander in Hezbollah's Badr unit.
At a rally in Nassau County, New York, Trump said: 'After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I'll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,' and that 'no ships get through unless we want them to.' On gasoline, which averaged $4.07 a gallon, he said 'You're at $4. It's okay... I'll never apologize.'
Trump told Fox News the United States would hit Iran hard economically. The night before, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Newsmax to 'watch this space for more announcements coming next week' and promised 'economic isolation like the world has never seen before' combined with the naval blockade.
Yemen's government said the Houthis fired six ballistic missiles at Mokha port on Friday evening; a military official told AFP five hit commercial ships unloading there and six people were killed, while the port director put the toll at three, including two marines. The director said on Saturday that operations were suspended after more than 25 missiles in recent attacks caused about $16 million in losses.
Asked at Joint Base Andrews whether the carrier's deployment had lasted too long, Trump said 'Not nearly long enough' and that the ship was about to be replaced. A day earlier CENTCOM called reports that seven sailors died in a brawl aboard 'false,' saying no one aboard had died and a sailor who fell overboard on Aug. 3 was recovered; CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper visited the crew on Aug. 15.
A Houthi military source told the Saba news agency the group hit an Aramco refinery in Saudi Arabia's Jizan region with two drones, in response to Saudi 'violation of Yemeni airspace' over Saada and Hajjah. The next day Saba said the Houthis also struck an Aramco facility in Najran. Saudi Arabia and Aramco did not confirm either strike.
After meeting CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper, Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi said Sept. 30 is the 'fixed and final date' for ending the anti-ISIS coalition's mission and withdrawing its forces, and a U.S. official confirmed the U.S. expects to finish its pullout by then. U.S. forces now remain mainly in the Kurdistan region, where their bases have been attacked repeatedly since the war began.
The Saudi-led coalition said a Houthi attack late Thursday on the Najran border region wounded at least 11 civilians, seven of them Saudis including a woman and a four-year-old child, along with two Egyptians, a Yemeni and a Pakistani. Earlier that day Houthi missile and drone strikes killed at least 58 Yemeni government troops, according to a military source.
An explosive device killed Maj. Harel Birenstock and Sgt. Maj. Tamir Vaknin and seriously wounded four soldiers in Majdal Zoun, the first Israeli deaths since the truce began nearly two months earlier. Israel called it a 'blatant violation of the ceasefire,' ordered residents of Mansouri to leave and struck southern Lebanon, and U.S.-mediated Israel-Lebanon talks in Rome ended three hours early.
CENTCOM said strikes began at 8 p.m. ET as 'a powerful response' to Iran's missile attack and that the 'heavy wave' hit dozens of IRGC targets, including command centers, missile and drone facilities and coastal defenses. Iranian media reported explosions at Qeshm, Kish, Bandar Abbas, Abadan and Bushehr, and the IRGC said the strait would stay closed and 'the aggressor will be punished today.'
CENTCOM said U.S. and Saudi fighter aircraft struck militia logistics and weapons sites across eastern Iraq in response to more than 30 IRGC-directed drone attacks in 72 hours on U.S. forces and Saudi energy sites, and Saudi Arabia called its role 'limited, targeted strikes.' The Popular Mobilisation Forces said at least 20 fighters were killed and 32 wounded at headquarters in Baghdad, Basra, Kirkuk and other provinces.
CENTCOM said IRGC forces launched multiple ballistic missiles from Iran at U.S. forces in the Middle East at 5:45 p.m. ET and that all were intercepted; a U.S. official told CNN there were no more than four. Jordan said it shot down five Iranian missiles overnight.