United States launched new airstrikes on Thursday Iran, and Tehran responded by targeting countries in the Persian Gulf, allies of the US where US military bases are located. The new exchange of fire threatens the temporary peace agreement that came into force barely three weeks ago.
Thursday's exchange of fire was even more intense than Wednesday's, with sirens sounding at least three times in Bahrain, home to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, and missiles targeting Kuwait and Qatar.
Sirens also sounded Thursday afternoon in Jordan, where the US has stationed troops and aircraft.
Iranian officials accused the US of launching an airstrike targeting the area around Iran's only nuclear power plant on Thursday, and other explosions were reported in other parts of the country during the afternoon.
Funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Early Friday local time, Iran's late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was buried in his hometown of Mashhad after days of public mourning. Khamenei was killed in the initial attacks on Iran.
Photo: Mohammad Hasan Salavati/Shahraranews via APWomen mourn the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
The attacks over the past few days came just hours after US President Donald Trump said recent Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz signaled the end of a fragile truce and threatened to escalate the conflict unless stopped.
In Iran, at least 14 people were killed and another 78 wounded in two days of US airstrikes, the Iranian Ministry of Health announced on Thursday. Most of them were allegedly members of the armed forces.
Explosions in the vicinity of the nuclear power plant
Iranian state media reported explosions in several locations, including Bushehr, home of Iran's nuclear power plant complex, and southern port cities. State news agency IRNA quoted Ehsan Jahanian, a local official in Bushehr, as accusing the US of attacking an area near the power plant around noon, hours after the US military's Central Command said it had ended its latest round of strikes. Asked for comment on Busher, Central Command referred to a press release that detailed the targets but did not mention the nuclear plant.
In Kuwait, the military said shrapnel wounded one person and that the country's military shot down three ballistic missiles, a cruise missile and 10 drones. Bahrain said it had prevented the airstrikes, but the details are not known, and so has Jordan.
Iranian state television announced that the country's Revolutionary Guards had fired missiles at a US base in Jordan.
The US military's Central Command said it hit 90 targets across Iran. They released black-and-white footage of what appeared to be attacks on an airport runway and missile launch systems.
The US said the strikes were aimed at "further diminishing" Iran's ability to "threaten freedom of navigation" in the strait, through which a fifth of the world's oil and natural gas trade passed before the war began with US and Israeli strikes on February 28.
Traffic has picked up somewhat since a preliminary agreement last month included the opening of the waterway. Maritime data company Lloyds List Intelligence said on Thursday that preliminary figures showed that at least 576 ships passed through the strait in June, compared with 233 in May. More than 3.100 people passed through the strait in June 2025.
Source: AP
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