Overview
- U.S. forces say they struck roughly 90 Iranian military targets in a campaign that Washington described as degrading Tehran’s ability to threaten shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
- Iranian officials and state media reported 14–17 dead and damage in southern provinces, including claims that strikes reached the perimeter of the Bushehr nuclear plant.
- The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed responsibility for missile and drone attacks on U.S. bases and facilities in Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain and Qatar in direct retaliation for U.S. strikes.
- Mass funerals for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei concluded in Mashhad while his designated successor Mojtaba Khamenei has remained largely out of public view, and Gulf states have urged the U.N. to protect navigation after a sharp drop in traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
- U.S. officials received reported Israeli intelligence about an alleged new Iranian plot to assassinate President Donald Trump, a development that has hardened U.S. rhetoric and complicated fragile mediation efforts to restore the ceasefire.