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On 15 July 2026, Washington escalated the five-month conflict by formally re-imposing a naval blockade of Iranian ports and launching two separate waves of precision strikes—morning and afternoon—against missile, drone and coastal-radar sites from Greater Tunb Island to Ahvaz.
On 17 July 2026 Washington widened its six-night bombing run, destroying key bridges and a surveillance tower at Chabahar port while Iran answered with missiles on U.S.-linked bases in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Jordan, ending any pretense of last month’s cease-fire.
Between 6–15 July 2026, Kyiv’s new drone forces claimed hits on 116 Russian vessels, compelling Moscow on 14 July to close both the Kerch Strait and Don-Azov Canal—choking a corridor that carries roughly one-quarter of Russia’s wheat exports.
On 15 July 2026 Washington restarted large-scale strikes and a naval blockade on Iran, but President Trump’s headline 20 % transit fee for ships in the Strait of Hormuz was announced Monday and scrapped less than 24 hours later after markets and allies balked.
On 15-16 July 2026 President Donald Trump warned Tehran he will hit Iranian bridges and power plants next week and, the day prior, ordered CENTCOM to resume a full naval blockade after four straight days of U.S. air- and sea-launched attacks.
In a July 14 Fox News interview, President Donald Trump said U.S. air operations will escalate next week to destroy Iran’s power plants and bridges unless Tehran resumes stalled negotiations, marking a declared shift from maritime raids to crippling national infrastructure.
On 13 July 2026 the White House formally informed Congress the U.S. is now at war with Iran, moments after U.S. forces struck 170 Iranian sites and reinstated a naval blockade and 20 % shipping toll in the Strait of Hormuz, effectively scrapping the June cease-fire and any immediate hope of a nuclear deal.
On 12–13 July 2026, CENTCOM carried out a third, expanded strike wave inside Iran—using fighter jets, aerial drones and, for the first time, one-way attack sea drones—prompting immediate IRGC missile barrages on U.S. bases and jolting Brent crude 4 % higher.
On 15 July 2026 Washington reinstated the naval blockade of Iranian ports—lifted only a month earlier—after Tehran again hit commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, triggering a fresh U.S. air-strike campaign and threats by Iran to shut Gulf energy exports.
On 13 July 2026 President Trump scrapped last month’s U.S.–Iran interim cease-fire and declared that all vessels using the Strait of Hormuz must pay Washington a 20 percent fee while a revived U.S. naval blockade bars Iranian traffic.
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