Iranian media reports US attack near nuclear power plant in Bushehr
We have some updates on the earlier reported explosions in the Bushehr province in southern Iran.
The semi-official Mehr news agency in Iran reported attacks in several locations “including military and civilian areas”. It added that attacks were reported near the nuclear power plant in Bushehr city and at a fishing port in the city of Asaluyeh.
Ehsan Jahanian, a local official in Bushehr, was quoted as saying there were no reports of casualties.
Mehr reported:
Jahanian stressed that further information regarding the extent of these attacks and the scale of any potential damage will be released through official channels, following a compilation of reports from the relevant authorities.”
There has been no immediate comment from the US.
Key events
Summary of developments so far
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Iran has accused the US of launching a strike near its only civilian nuclear plant as renewed hostilities continued between the warring parties for a second day.
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Iranian media reported several explosions in the Bushehr province in southern Iran, including near the nuclear power plant located in the provincial capital of the same name. Ehsan Jahanian, a local official in Bushehr, said there were no reports of casualties.
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Iranian authorities also said that US overnight strikes hit three railways bridges, including one on a line that connects the capital Tehran to the north-eastern city of Mashhad.
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Massive crowds of people have gathered in Mashhad where the slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei will be buried. It follows a week of funeral processions around Iran and Iraq that has coincided with the fresh bout of fighting with the US.
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The recent wave of US strikes in Iran have killed 14 people and injured 78 others, the Iranian health ministry said. “Of the injured, 47 remain hospitalised,” said Hossein Kermanpour, head of public relations for Iran’s ministry of health.
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Tehran responded with retaliatory strikes against what it described as US bases across the Gulf, including in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Jordan.
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy said that US attacks on Iran and intervention in redirecting shipping through the strait of Hormuz were disrupting the strategic waterway’s gradual reopening and jeopardising the interests of countries benefiting from it.
Iran says it launched 10 missiles at airbase in Jordan
The Iranian military said it had targeted Jordan’s Muwaffaq Salti airbase, which is also used by US forces, with 10 ballistic missiles, according to a statement carried by state media.
The IRGC said it previously warned that “repeating the aggression would expand our response to other enemy bases in the region” and in response to a second day of US attacks it “implemented this threat”.
“If the US terrorist army repeats its aggression, other US bases in the region will not be safe from our heavy fire,” it added.
Earlier, the Jordanian military said it intercepted eight Iranian missiles in its airports with no reports of damage.
A picture on the newswires shows a damaged railway bridge near Aq Qala in Iran’s north-eastern Golestan province. The image taken from a social media video emerged earlier today as Iranian media reported US attacks on three bridges (the other two on the route to Mashhad city, see post at 10:21). There was no immediate comment from the US on the claims.
Jordan armed forces intercept Iranian missiles, government says
It appears Jordan has been forced into the conflict, with the state news agency (Petra) reporting a number of Iranian missiles intercepted over the country.
Air defences shot down eight missiles launched from Iran towards Jordanian territory, according to Petra, citing a military source. There were no reports of casualties or material damage from the attacks.
Earlier, air raid sirens were activated “following reports of the kingdom’s airspace being breached by missiles launched from Iran”, Mohammed al-Momani, a Jordanian government spokesperson, said on X.
The Iranian judiciary’s official Mizan news agency has reported that three members of the IRGC were killed in US attacks today.
They were killed in Khuzestan province in south-west Iran, according to the report. No further details were provided.
Iran says US attacks disrupt reopening of strait of Hormuz
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) navy said that US attacks on Iran and intervention in redirecting shipping through the strait of Hormuz were disrupting the strategic waterway’s gradual reopening and jeopardising the interests of countries benefiting from it.
The IRGC added that transit capacity under Iran’s supervision had recovered to about 50% of prewar levels over the past two weeks, and that it was only being expanded for vessels granted permits to use routes designated by Iran.
It warned that any further US intervention would draw a “crushing response”.
The US launched airstrikes against Iran overnight on Thursday, killing at least 14 people, while Tehran responded by hitting Gulf countries in the most intense exchange of fire since a shaky ceasefire was extended last month.
The tit-for-tat strikes on Thursday were the largest since Tehran and Washington signed a memorandum of understanding on 17 June aimed at extending the ceasefire and giving space for negotiations for a permanent truce.
Sirens sounded at least three times in Bahrain, where the US navy’s fifth fleet is headquartered, while Iranian missiles also targeted Kuwait and Qatar. There were no immediate reports of any damage.
The attacks came hours after Donald Trump said the memorandum of understanding was “over” because of Iranian attacks on ships in the strait of Hormuz. After the strikes, the US president posted videos of explosions in Iran and threatened the country once again.
“This is in retribution for yesterday’s bombing of ships by Iran. If it happens again, it will get much worse!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Hours before, he had promised that strikes would not lead to long term fighting but would be “very-fast”.
A drone attack hit a camp belonging to an Iranian Kurdish opposition group north-east of Iraq’s Erbil, security sources told Reuters on Thursday.
No casualties were immediately reported in the attack.
Iranian media reports US attack near nuclear power plant in Bushehr
We have some updates on the earlier reported explosions in the Bushehr province in southern Iran.
The semi-official Mehr news agency in Iran reported attacks in several locations “including military and civilian areas”. It added that attacks were reported near the nuclear power plant in Bushehr city and at a fishing port in the city of Asaluyeh.
Ehsan Jahanian, a local official in Bushehr, was quoted as saying there were no reports of casualties.
Mehr reported:
Jahanian stressed that further information regarding the extent of these attacks and the scale of any potential damage will be released through official channels, following a compilation of reports from the relevant authorities.”
There has been no immediate comment from the US.
We have a gallery here showing some incredible pictures from Gaza, where crowds of Egypt supporters were able to watch the World Cup on a giant screen thanks to Palestinian aid worker Mohamed al-Wahidi.
But good times are only a moment away from tragedy for the Palestinians, who have come under near-daily attacks by the Israeli military despite a truce signed in October. One of those attacks killed al-Wahidi on Tuesday, just before the World Cup game between Egypt and Argentina.
The Israeli military confirmed the strike, saying al-Wahidi had not been its intended target, and that the missile had been aimed at a “terrorist in Hamas’ military wing”.
The 57-year-old director of the Egyptian Committee in Gaza had worked for years on aid and development projects in the Palestinian territory and helped organise screenings of the World Cup in Gaza City, where people turned out in large numbers to support Egypt.
According to his family, he had been in a taxi on the way to a screening of the Egypt-Argentina match in Tel al-Hawa in southern Gaza City when a missile hit the car he was in.
In the months since the October ceasefire, Israeli attacks have killed 1,084 people, including nine killed by strikes and gunfire across Gaza yesterday, according to local health officials.
The coffin of former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei is pictured here at Najaf airport in central Iraq – where a funeral procession took place yesterday – as it makes its way back to Iran for burial in Mashhad.
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