The U.S., early Sunday morning, launched strikes against Iranian military targets as the Islamic Guard (IRGC) claimed that it has closed the Strait of Hormuz “indefinitely.”
U.S. strikes targeted Iran’s coastal region, destroying naval assets, missile installations, and drone facilities in response to ongoing IRGC attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
According to Central Command (CENTCOM), U.S. forces “completed a third round of strikes this week against Iran, July 11, holding Iranian forces accountable for attacking another commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz.”
They “hit approximately 140 Iranian military targets with precision munitions launched by land- and sea-based fighter aircraft, drones, and naval vessels. Targets included Iranian missile and drone sites, naval capabilities, ammunition storage facilities, communication networks, and coastal surveillance locations,” CENTCOM added.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced it has completed a third round of strikes this week against Iranian military targets in response to another attack on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.
According to CENTCOM, approximately 140 military targets were struck during… pic.twitter.com/qyqOhYttD7
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) July 12, 2026
By resorting to aggression, the regime “had made a poor choice,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth observed on X.
Iran made a poor choice. Now they pay. https://t.co/8m4fEfgrXv
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) July 11, 2026
Amid attacks on cargo ships and tankers, Iran declared that it has “taken control” of the Strait of Hormuz. On Saturday night, the IRGC struck a container ship in the waterway. “An Iranian official has said the country has ‘taken control of the Strait of Hormuz with power’ after a Cyprus-flagged ship was attacked in the key shipping route,” Sky News reported Sunday.
Escalating the conflict further, the IRGC launched missile and drone attacks against Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates on Sunday. “Iran launched missiles and drones at its Gulf neighbours this morning in retaliation to a number of US strikes and announced the closure of the strategic strait of Hormuz until further notice,” The Guardian reported Sunday. “Jordan, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the UAE all reportedly came under attack. Qatar said three people, including a child, had been injured by falling shrapnel but there were no immediate reports of any casualties.”
Iranian media release footage of their attacks on Gulf Arab countries overnight. pic.twitter.com/X6Uz1Ms0uG
— Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) July 12, 2026
On Sunday evening, Iranian state media reported alleged U.S strikes on the strategically located island of Qeshm in the Strait of Hormuz.
Sky News reported:
Iran’s IRNA state news agency says missiles were launched by the “enemy” towards Qeshm Island this afternoon, adding that no casualties were reported.
It cites Qeshm governor Hossein Amir Teymouri as saying “10 to 11 enemy projectiles” targeted the military island.
It comes after a series of reports in Iranian media that explosions had been heard on the south coast, east of the port city of Bandar Abbas (…).
Smoke rises from a number of sites targeted by the U.S. military in the last hour on Iran’s Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf. pic.twitter.com/4BGDudVuKd
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) July 12, 2026
Just days after burying Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian regime is ramping up military aggression. During the weeklong, state-managed funeral, regime officials and loyalists repeatedly called for revenge against the U.S. and its allies.
Along with Khamenei, the 14-point ceasefire agreement seems to have been buried as well. Following repeated Iranian violations, President Donald Trump declared on Wednesday that the truce is “over.” In a written message, Iran’s new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, on Saturday pledged to “avenge” the killing of his father, suggesting that the regime had no interest in negotiating a deal with the U.S.
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Seems to me we were told all this stuff had been destroyed already.
This administration should stop pumping sunshine up everyone’s ass and just go Carthage on them.
‘This is Sparta!’
That doesn’t work, either.
It’s Schrödinger’s war, Schrödinger’s strait, Schrödinger’s cease fire, Schrödinger’s political capital being whizzed down the drain…
Power plants, bridges, transportation nodes. Destroying infrastructure to hinder military logistics.
Iran does not control Hormuz. Iran is a petty little terrorist state that is having a tantrum exactly because they DO NOT control anything except maybe their own subjugated population. And maybe they won’t be able to do that for long. This media obsession with creating a false equivalence between the strength and capability of US forces and Iran’s is just another manifestation of sick media bias.
“between the strength and capability of US forces and Iran’s”
Maybe we need to see more of that for ourselves, instead of all this inexplicable jawboning.
Remember “unconditional surrender?” Good times.
You have seen it. The world has seen it. The silly declarations of a broken terrorist state that it controls an international waterway are absurd on their face. Only a biased and corrupted media, and some commenters, would be swayed by such nonsense.
There will be no end to the Iranian Islamofascist/terrorist regime’s brazen and fanatical. belligerence, mendacity and deceit, until this nearly fifty-year-old global cancer is excised, completely.
I understand commercial ships are unarmed and instructed to turn back to port if fired on. But Iran doesn’t have real navy. Why isn’t it possible for US to blast Iran’s little speed boat pirates out of the water like venezuela drug runners?
Because they’re small and hard to see, and there are so many of them. It’s like swatting gnats. But they can’t have an unlimited supply of them.
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It’s possible they have moved or will move to drones similar to the ones Ukraine has used to good effect. They are even smaller than speed boats and sit even lower to the water. This might have been one of the reasons they kept trying to capture our water based drones last year.
The US counters with A10s and Apaches but you have to find them first to vector those assets into for the kill. A10s are particularly valuable because of their loiter times. The USAF keeps trying to retire them but new and different missions keep popping up for which they are ideally suited,
Don’t know if speed boats are being used recently but I suspect, whatever little toys Iran is employing, the US Navy is actively monitoring, assessing and systematically eliminating the threats. There is a lot of Iranian bluster amplified by a grotesquely irresponsible media but don’t confuse this with a formidable military threat.
Iran’s goal is its sovereignty. Refusing to go along with anything serves that goal.
Irans goal is sovrreignty over the entire region, at least till their mahdi returns or they meet their virgins
Nuts I hate typos
No thats incorrect. IRGC goal is to be regional hegemonic power.
(fixed it for you).
Not regional as the IRGC and Mullahs want to help bring the world to global crisis to pave the return of the 12th Imam. None of this “regional” stuff. They believe that the Little Satan and Great Satan are hindering the return of the 12th who will bring the world into peace through Islam. Destroying Israel and the US (also Western Civ) must be done. Fomenting terrorism , developing nukes and ICBMs are their tools. (The Dems embracing Islam doesn’t hurt either). Overly ambitious? Yes, until one understands the potential damage of EMP nuke attacks on US and even the smallest Little Boy bombs on Israel. They aren’t dumb.
Don;t know what number they are on now, but perhps a good game plan might be to take out each imam in turn as soon as he ascends what serves as a throne or seat to power.
The only “talks” which we should have with the Islamic regime should consist of only one sentence. Unconditionally surrender. And while we are waiting for them to do that, continuing punishing them to the Nth degree. Kill every IRGC member and true believer that we can. It’s the only way.
Unleash the juices!!!
Squeeze any synagoguecand you’ll get plenty of juice!
Democrats are bursting with pride as their closest ally really sticks it to Trump.
Keep doubling up the strike packages each day. Then add some infrastructure targets and begin doubling up the count each day on those until:
1. the Regime surrenders unconditionally
2. the populace over throws the Regime b/c they want water, electricity, irrigation, dams, bridges, airports, hospitals and food which the USA destroyed b/c of Regime stupidity
3. There’s not two bricks touching in Iran b/c we’ve knocked everything flat then bounced the rubble with enough follow on strikes to disperse the rubble.
The guys in bunkers launching these attacks don’t give 2 figs about any of the infrastructure we could target. It’s like I attack you and you respond by blowing up 5 of my neighbors houses when I would have just as gladly blown them up anyway.
This ends with IRGC members corpses hanging from construction cranes by their necks.
That’s the only way this ends.
The President through the military is taking one piece away from the irgc everyday now. We are trying to force the irgc away from the coast line. It’s not a one day process. We are keeping Israel out of this part so they can focus on Lebanon. Just as the irgc and the mullahs were surrounding Israel l/Gulf States, we are now pushing those lines right back to the Iranian borders. The irgc still has many tunnels and bunkers to be bombed. Over the last 90 days how many bunker busters have we manufactured? Cruise missiles? Drones? How much intelligence was derived from overhead imagery? How many strategic targets have been catalogued with strike coordinates? The President and his negotiators have been searching for someone to reciprocate. I’m afraid that will never happen and is why he said gloves off. We are the only nation with the precision weapons to obliterate the bunkers and tunnels. When you see and read about those weapons being used all over the Iranian countryside you’ll know it’s game over for the irgc and the mullahs.
Only good mullah is a dead mullah, I always say.
I wish we would forget about negotiations with these terrorists, and just finish the job.
What some people seem to forget or ignore is that Iran actually doesn’t have to hit anything in the strait to gum up the works. All they need to do is be able to threaten. Not only will ships not make the transit if there is a good chance they might be attacked but this causes their insurance costs to rise.
War-risk insurance for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz has surged to 1–5% of a ship’s hull value, translating to millions of dollars per passage.
For a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) valued at $100 million, premiums can reach $2 million to $5 million per transit, depending on vessel type, ownership, and routing. In extreme cases, rates may exceed 5% of hull value, particularly for high-value or high-risk vessels. These rates are roughly 20–40 times higher than pre-crisis levels, which were typically 0.125% of hull value
(Completely plagiarized from Copilot)