The U.S. reimposed a naval blockade on Iran and intensified its airstrike campaign Wednesday in retaliation for Tehran's attacks on ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The American strikes hit an Iranian army barracks, killing at least seven troops and wounding more than 260 people across the country.
The U.S. reimposed a naval blockade on Iran and intensified its airstrike campaign Wednesday in retaliation for Tehran's attacks on ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
The American strikes hit an Iranian army barracks, killing at least seven troops and wounding more than 260 people across the country. Days of back-and-forth strikes by the U.S. and Iran across the Middle East have shredded the interim deal to end the conflict, and the region could tip back into all-out war.
The U.S. first imposed a blockade in April and then lifted it last month after signing the interim deal that paused the fighting and set a 60-day period for negotiations over issues such as Iran's nuclear program. The talks have stalled as fighting over the Strait of Hormuz has intensified.
When the U.S. and Israel launched the war on Iran on Feb. 28, Tehran effectively closed the waterway to shipping traffic, a move that sent the price of oil, fertilizer, and many other goods soaring far beyond the region and gave Iran major leverage in negotiations. The rising prices pose a particular challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump and his Republican Party, which hopes to retain control of Congress in elections in November.
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened Wednesday to halt all energy exports from the Middle East over the blockade. The U.S. carried out a wave of strikes, hitting dozens of targets overnight, and then resumed striking Iran during daylight. Iran took control of three islands — Abu Musa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb — from what would become the United Arab Emirates in 1971. The UAE has sought to reclaim them.
Some analysts have suggested that if the U.S. seized the islands, they could allow it to control the strait. Another strike targeted a barracks for Iran's 388th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, which operates tanks and armored vehicles, in Sistan and Baluchestan province. The report said the Americans fired at least 13 missiles in the attack and that the seven dead included conscripts and career soldiers. A number of troops were wounded.
Including those at the barracks, more than 30 people have been killed in recent days, Iranian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said, without elaborating. Hossein Kermanpour, a spokesperson for the Health Ministry, meanwhile, said over 260 people were wounded in overnight strikes alone — a figure far larger than for any other round of recent violence between Iran and the U.S. He did not say how many people were killed overnight.
Iran claimed attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan, all of which host U.S. forces. U.S. Navy Adm. Brad Cooper said in a statement that Iran had launched dozens of missiles and drones at neighboring Gulf Arab countries. Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, criticized America's attacks, saying, 'The U.S. is the aggressor, not the victim.
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