In a press release, the ministry described the US administration as “evil and psychopathic” and that it condemned the assaults which have broken bridges and a railway route connecting Tehran to the town of Mashhad, the place the late supreme chief Ali Khamenei is because of be buried at a funeral service afterward Thursday.
Iran’s Ministry of Well being says 14 folks have been killed throughout this newest spherical of combating.
Hossein Kermanpour, head of public relations on the ministry, mentioned US assaults focusing on 5 provinces in Iran over 8 and 9 July have additionally injured 78 folks, of whom 47 stay in hospital.
Gulf nations reported Iranian assaults following the US strikes, with explosions in Bahrain’s capital Manama, Kuwait intercepting missiles and drones, and Qatar issuing a safety alert.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has confirmed that it launched retaliatory strikes on US army bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in a single day, and known as them the “first part of the punitive response in opposition to the American treaty-breakers”.
Iran’s parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who can be the nation’s chief negotiator with the US, mentioned on X that America “nonetheless hasn’t realized that bullying and breaking guarantees are now not cost-free”.
“Let me put it plainly: for those who strike, you will get hit,” he wrote, including that the Strait of Hormuz will solely open beneath Iranian preparations – not “American threats”.
US Central Command (Centcom) mentioned the most up-to-date spherical of strikes was carried out to “additional degrade Iran’s potential to assault industrial transport and harmless civilian mariners” within the very important waterway.
In a press release it mentioned it had struck 90 Iranian army targets, which included air protection techniques and army logistics infrastructure alongside Iran’s shoreline.
“The newest strikes comply with profitable execution of offensive strikes in Iran the evening earlier than,” Centcom added.
Phil Belcher, marine director at Intertanko, a world organisation for impartial tanker homeowners, mentioned the variety of ships travelling by means of the Strait by way of the southern route was now in “single figures” following the step up in hostilities.
Belcher mentioned the each day determine of about 30 ships was down from about 70 every week in the past and effectively under the conventional variety of 130 ships that was seen earlier than the Iran warfare started earlier this yr.
“The variety of ships which might be going by means of in a single day is type of about single figures within the southern route, which is maintained off the coast of Oman by the US,” he informed BBC Radio 4’s At this time programme, whereas about 20 travelled by means of a northern route overseen by Iran.
He informed the programme that there had been an “exuberance of optimism” round transport within the area following the signing of the memorandum of understanding between Iran and the US final month, however now the temper has modified.
“This cycle of violence, this cycle of up-and-down, positive-negative information, it is having an infinite influence each on enterprise [and] on the seafarers themselves,” he mentioned.
