Iran says it hit U.S. military infrastructure across Gulf states
Iranian forces retaliated for U.S. strikes on its territory and commercial shipping, targeting U.S. military systems in Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain as the nation mourned its slain leader.
- On Thursday, July 9, 2026, Iranian armed forces launched attacks on U.S. military infrastructure across Gulf states, coinciding with the burial of late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a shrine in Mashhad.
- U.S. Central Command struck approximately 90 Iranian military targets on Wednesday in retribution for ship bombings, straining a three-week-old ceasefire agreement between the nations.
- Iran fired 10 ballistic missiles at Jordan's Azraq military base and targeted U.S. Patriot systems in Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain, with Iranian officials reporting 14 deaths and 78 injuries across five provinces.
- Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz vowed to resume military operations with "even greater force" if necessary, while President Donald Trump stated he did not believe the strikes would escalate into full-scale conflict.
- The Revolutionary Guards Navy warned any further U.S. intervention in the Strait of Hormuz would draw a "crushing response," even as oil prices fell back on Thursday amid investor uncertainty about ceasefire collapse.
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Iran's armed forces launched attacks on American military infrastructure in the Gulf States on Thursday in response to the US attacks of the night on the coastal provinces of southern Iran and eastern Iran, further eroding the ceasefire agreement concluded three weeks ago. These events took place on the day that Iran buried its supreme leader killed on the first day of the war, ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the holy grave in Mashhad, the culminatio…
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