Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has vowed to retaliate today after a wave of US strikes on Iranian targets overnight.
In a statement published to state media, the IRGC said it would “punish the aggressor today”.
Jordan’s air defences shot down five missiles launched from Iran Thursday morning, the country's state-run Petra news agency said, hours after the US military announced it had completed “a heavy wave of strikes against Iran” in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack on a US base in Jordan.
The US military has resumed strikes against Iran after Donald Trump promised Tehran would “get a beating”.
US Central Command announced early Thursday that it had launched strikes against Iran in what it called a “powerful response” to attempted attacks on American forces in the Middle East.
Trump unleashed an expletive-ridden threat to “beat the fs*” out of Iran” Wednesday following its “surprise” missile attack against the US.
Tuesday night, CENTCOM announced that it intercepted Iran’s latest “surprise attack” by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after Trump’s meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier that day.
Saudi Arabia also joined US strikes on Iran-backed groups in Iraq Wednesday, killing at least 20 soldiers.
Iran says talks with Oman over management of Hormuz continues
Iran has said that talks with Oman over management of the Strait of Hormuz is continuing after Muscat put forward a Gulf-backed proposal on “voluntary fees” for vessels transiting the vital shipping route.
Sources told Reuters that Yemen’s Houthis are also considering a similar proposal for the Red Sea.
Trump’s Iran war is becoming a political disaster, new poll shows
A new AP-NORC poll suggests Americans are growing increasingly skeptical of the war with Iran, with about two-thirds saying the conflict has not been worth fighting and support for President Donald Trump's handling of the war slipping.
The survey, conducted July 23-27, found just 28% of U.S. adults approve of Trump's handling of Iran, down from 34% last month. Support also dipped among Republicans, with 61% approving, compared with 71% in June, though the poll's margin of error means the decline is modest.
The findings come after nearly two weeks of intensified fighting in which U.S. forces struck Iranian military and commercial targets and Iran retaliated against American facilities in the Middle East. Eighteen U.S. service members have been killed since the conflict began on Feb. 28.
Three revolutionary guard members killed in US attacks
Three members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been killed in the US strike on Iran, state media has confirmed on Thursday.
US Central Command announced early Thursday that it had launched strikes against Iran in what it called a “powerful response” to attempted attacks on American forces in the Middle East.
Watch: Netanyahu denies persuading Trump on Iran war, asserts 'it's his decision'
‘Exasperated’ Trump battles with White House officials ‘over Iran strategy’
President Donald Trump is “exasperated” by the lack of progress in ending the Iran conflict and the lack of consensus on strategy among his top military advisers, according to a report.
An unnamed ally of the president has told NBC News: “The president is exasperated. I don’t think he believed it was going to be this difficult to get the Iranians to agree to a deal.
“There was not a real strategy for how long or what they should do to get to the endpoint… He did not intend this to be a long, drawn-out war.”
Kuwait defence ministry says Iranian attack hits Chinese company building, killing one worker
An Iranian attack hit a building belonging to a Chinese company in northern Kuwait on Thursday, killing a worker and inflicting significant damage, the Kuwaiti defence ministry spokesperson said on Thursday in a post on X.
Fire breaks out on tanker after trying to use 'unsafe route' in Hormuz, says IRGC
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have said on Thursday that two tankers had attempted to use what it called an unsafe route in the Strait of Hormuz but turned back after a fire broke out on one of the vessels, according to a statement shared by state media.
It did not identify the cause of the fire.
Saudi Arabia GDP falls in second quarter as oil activity contracts amid Middle East war
Saudi Arabia's real gross domestic product fell 4.8% in the second quarter compared to the same period a year earlier, preliminary government estimates showed on Thursday, as war in the Middle East impacts the world's top oil exporter.
The contraction was largely the result of a 24.7% drop in oil activity, showed data from the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT). Non-oil and government activity ticked up 0.9% and 0.6% respectively.
The US attacked Iran on Wednesday, intensifying a five-month-old war that has disrupted shipping and energy markets and affected countries in the region beyond the main fronts.
Most Gulf economies will contract more sharply this year than expected three months ago before rebounding in 2027, a Reuters poll found this month.
GASTAT said oil activity in the quarter contributed negatively to real GDP growth by 5.4 percentage points, while non-oil activity contributed positively by 0.4 percentage point.
Watch: American forces resume strikes after attempted Iranian attacks
Breaking: Iran will 'punish the aggressor today' after US strikes, says state media
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have vowed to retaliate today after a wave of US strikes on Iranian targets overnight.
In a statement published to state media, the IRGC said it would “punish the aggressor today”.