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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.
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.
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