Escalation in Middle East intensified for the seventh consecutive night, with Iran reporting three deaths from US strikes and launching attacks on several US military sites in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said early on Saturday that two oil tankers directed by “deceptive American intelligence agencies” exploded after hitting mines in the Strait of Hormuz, which the US military quickly denied.
The Revolutionary Guards also said on state television they “stopped” four ships trying to transit the critical waterway.
US forces, meanwhile, reported attacking Iran with attacks designed to “continue degrading Iranian military capabilities,” according to a statement by US Central Command shared on X.
In the biggest escalation since the foes resumed hostilities, Iran accused US forces of targeting civilian infrastructure, including an airport, a railway station and two bridges, and said it had struck US assets across the region.
US President Donald Trump has previously warned to hit Iranian infrastructure, but there was no confirmation from the US side on Friday that US forces have begun to do so.
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Major General Mohsen Rezaei, a senior military advisor to Iran’s supreme leader, said Tehran will resume “full-scale offensive operations” if US attacks against it continue for another two or three days.
“Iran will no longer limit itself to retaliatory, like-for-like responses…and no political border will be safe,” Rezaei said, according to the Iranian news agency IRIB.
The war began on February 28 with deadly US-Israeli attacks on Iran, which retaliated by effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping channel for much of the world’s oil.
Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday that US attacks killed three people and wounded eight in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan.
Iran’s army said it struck US military targets in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan in response to American attacks, according to a statement carried by the Iranian state broadcaster on Saturday.
