Iran and the US have traded blows across the Gulf for a sixth straight night. US Central Command says its latest wave of air and naval strikes, which ended at dawn Friday, targeted "dozens" of Iranian military sites, including coastal surveillance, air defenses, logistics hubs, and maritime assets, the BBC reports. Iran says civilian infrastructure was hit too—five bridges, a train station, and Iranshahr Airport in the country's southeast. The US has not addressed the claims directly, but the BBC verified damage to at least one bridge.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards say they answered with attacks on US-linked radar and military sites in Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, and a US special operations hub at al-Tanf in Syria. The al-Tanf strike, which hasn't been confirmed by Washington or Damascus, would mark the war's first direct strike on Syria, Reuters reports. Jordan said it shot down three Iranian missiles and Qatari authorities said a child was injured by falling shrapnel after an aerial interception, Al Jazeera reports.
US forces, meanwhile, have tightened a renewed blockade, boarding an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman and redirecting commercial ships. With Iran effectively keeping the Strait of Hormuz shut, Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, says global energy supplies will be a major worry "if the situation does not improve in the next few weeks," the BBC reports. The White House insists that President Trump is still open to diplomacy, even as Tehran says it has "no reason" to honor a deal that doesn't serve its interests. In his primetime address Thursday night, Trump said the war was going well, the AP reports. "We are likewise winning big in Iran, and you will see the fruits of that labor very, very shortly," he said.
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