Iran-US war latest: US marines board tanker in Strait of Hormuz as Trump’s latest strikes kill seven

Three people were killed and several others injured in Washington’s latest wave of attacks against Tehran, Iranian state media said today.

The airstrikes hit multiple locations in Iran’s Hormozgan province, marking the sixth consecutive night of attacks against Tehran, according to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).

“With great regret, one of our compatriots has also achieved the highest degree of martyrdom in this attack,” Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences said in a statement.

Two people were killed and four others injured in strikes on bridges in Iran’s Khamir County, according to state media.

Oil prices have risen higher today as the US and Iran stepped up attacks, with Tehran’s attacks on Gulf countries limiting ​supply coming out of the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran has also asked the Houthis to remain on standby to shut the Red Sea export route.

The price of Brent Crude rose by about 1.25 per cent today, reaching near $85.28 a barrel, while the US WTI Crude also climbed by about the same rate to around $79.98 a barrel.

“Oil security is still a critical issue…We ​should be worried, and I am worried, if the situation does not improve in the next ‌few weeks,” International Energy Agency executive ​director Fatih Birol said.

In his address to the nation on Thursday night, US president Donald Trump said Washington was “winning big in Iran” as the country expanded its airstrike campaign against Tehran today.

The airstrikes targeted bridges in Iran as part of a broader strategy to attack the nation’s infrastructure and pressure Tehran to ease its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz.

“You will see the fruits of that labour very, very shortly,” Trump said.

An Iranian military chief has warned Iran could launch widespread attacks on “all the infrastructure in the region” if the US acted on President Donald Trump ‘s repeated warnings that America could hit Iranian bridges and power plants.

“Under no circumstances and in no way will we allow America, as a foreign and extraregional country, to interfere in the Strait of Hormuz,” said Col Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesperson for the Iranian military’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters.

“This is Iran’s invincible red line.”

US Central Command has announced that it ended its latest round of airstrikes against Iran.

“U.S. forces, including fighter jets, aerial drones, and warships, launched precision munitions that hit dozens of Iranian military targets such as coastal surveillance and air defense sites, military logistics infrastructure, and maritime capabilities”, CENTCOM wrote on X.

The sixth consecutive night of strikes ended at 9:40 p.m. ET/1:40 a.m. GMT.

“At the Commander in Chief’s direction, CENTCOM is further degrading Iranian military capabilities and holding Iran accountable for recent attacks on commercial shipping”, the US military said. “More than 50,000 U.S. service members are operating across the Middle East and remain vigilant, lethal, and ready”.

Syrian authorities foiled an attempt to smuggle a shipment of advanced weapons and missiles over the border from Iraq, the state news agency SANA says.

An Interior Ministry source told Reuters that preliminary investigations showed the shipment was intended for Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

Hezbollah, the Lebanese militants aligned with the Iranian regime, are currently engaged in conflict with neighbouring Israel.

After two days of US-mediated talks in Rome, Lebanon and Israel have taken steps toward implementing “pilot zones” in southern Lebanon where Israeli forces would withdraw and turn over control to the Lebanese army, the US State Department said Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump has said the US is “winning big in Iran”.

During a national address Thursday night, Washington time, Trump said, “You will see the fruits of that labor very, very shortly”.