The U.S. carried out a military strike on Iran and bombed Iranian targets for an eighth straight night, according to U.S. Central Command. The strikes came after an attack in Jordan killed two American service members, and U.S. Central Command said the latest round was meant to “swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces.”
The attack hit Iranian coastal surveillance and air defense sites, maritime capabilities, and missile and drone storage facilities. Iranian authorities later said 50 people were killed and 517 were wounded in the latest American strikes, while the U.S. said its campaign concluded early Sunday.
Jordan and the U.S. response
U.S. Central Command linked the new strikes to Friday’s attack in Jordan, where two American service members were killed. That made the retaliation part of a running exchange rather than a one-off strike, with the U.S. campaign now stretching into an eighth straight night.
The target set points to a deliberate attempt to cut into Iran’s ability to watch shipping, defend fixed sites, and store weapons used in the exchange. Those are different layers of the same system: surveillance spots movement, air defenses try to stop incoming fire, and maritime and missile storage supports longer-range pressure.
Strait of Hormuz pressure
The fighting is tied to the Strait of Hormuz, which carries a fifth of the world’s traded oil in peacetime. The interim peace deal was meant to pause the fighting while the two sides worked toward reopening the strait, but Iran said on Saturday that it was suspending its commitments under that deal.
Donald Trump said of Tehran abandoning the deal, “I couldn’t care less.” Mojtaba Khamenei called Donald Trump’s signature on the interim deal “utterly worthless and devoid of credibility,” sharpening the breakdown just as the strikes widened.
Oil flows and spillover
Chris Wright said oil is still moving through the Hormuz channel even as the fighting is centered on threats to shipping in the strait. In an interview on ABC’s This Week, Chris Wright said flows from the Gulf region stand at just under 14 million barrels a day. “Almost all the public data I’ve seen is incorrect,” he said.
That oil is still moving does not mean the region is quiet. Iran struck U.S. allies across the Persian Gulf region on Sunday, Iranian strikes hit a Kuwaiti power and water desalination plant for the second time in two days, Kuwait’s electricity ministry said the strike sparked a fire, Bahrain reported intercepting attacks, and Jordan said it shot down three of four Iranian missiles aimed toward its territory.
The Iranian atomic energy agency said U.S. strikes hit the unfinished Darkhovin nuclear power plant in Khuzestan province, while the International Atomic Energy Agency said the site holds no nuclear material and poses no radiological risk. How long the exchange of strikes will continue and whether the interim peace deal can be restored are the open questions that now sit behind the next round of fire.
