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Late 13–14 July 2026, US Central Command bombarded six Iranian coastal installations and announced a renewed naval blockade of Iranian shipping, responding to Iran’s unverified drone-missile attacks on US bases in Bahrain and triggering an immediate oil price jump.
On 14 July 2026 Tehran publicly claimed its first ballistic-missile salvo at the US Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, minutes after Jordan said it downed four incoming Iranian missiles.
On 12 July 2026, the U.S. launched a third, largest wave of airstrikes hitting 140 sites across Iran in reprisal for the IRGC’s missile strike on the Cyprus-flagged M/V GFS Galaxy in the Strait of Hormuz, after which Tehran closed the waterway and fired missiles at U.S. bases in Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE.
On 13 July 2026, the state-linked newspaper Hamshahri posted an online graphic declaring 13 foreign leaders—including U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu—targets for vengeance, the first concrete public threat since new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei vowed retaliation for his father’s 28 Feb killing.
On 11 July Caracas officials updated the June 24 twin-quake death toll to 4,333 and said the first 200 replacement homes will be handed over next week, while Acting President Delcy Rodriguez has formally petitioned King Charles III to release 30 tons of Venezuelan gold held at the Bank of England to finance reconstruction.
On 11 July 2026, newly-installed Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei broke weeks of silence with a written statement pledging inevitable retaliation for the 28 Feb US-Israeli strike that killed his father, framing vengeance as state policy and igniting a fresh round of threats with Washington.
In the early hours of 12 July 2026, the United States destroyed about 140 Iranian military sites in a third consecutive night of strikes after Iran shelled the Cyprus-flagged M/V GFS Galaxy in the Strait of Hormuz, whereupon Tehran shut the strait and fired missiles at U.S. bases in Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE.
On 12 July 2026 Tehran shut the Strait of Hormuz and launched missiles-and-drone salvos at Qatar, UAE, Bahrain and U.S. bases in retaliation for a U.S. air campaign that had just destroyed roughly 140 Iranian targets following Iran’s attack on a Cyprus-flagged container ship.
On 8 July 2026, hours after U.S. forces hit 80+ Iranian sites and Iran answered with missile-and-drone barrages on U.S. bases in Bahrain and Kuwait, President Trump said the June ceasefire memorandum was "over," effectively collapsing the three-week truce.
On 10 July 2026, hours after anonymous airstrikes hit several southern Iranian sites, Washington conditioned any renewed truce on Tehran’s public pledge to keep the Strait of Hormuz open to shipping.
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