The US military said it carried out strikes against Iran for the seventh night since President Donald Trump declared the temporary ceasefire deal “over”.
US Central Command (Centcom) said its forces “struck surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage and maritime capabilities.”
Iran said it responded by targeting U.S. allies in the region, including Kuwait, which said another of its power and water plants had been hit following a similar attack the day before.
“Another electricity and water distillation plant was the target of a hostile attack which caused a fire in one of the components of the plant,” and some electricity production units were disabled, the Ministry of Electricity and Water said.
The Jordanian military also said it had intercepted 10 Iranian missiles fired into its airspace overnight. No damage was reported. Bahrain also said its air defenses had “thwarted” Iranian attacks.
Centcom said it ended its strikes at 9:30 p.m. ET (02:30 a.m. BST) after several hours.
“US forces used fighter jets, aerial drones and warships in addition to other means,” it said in its statement.
Explosions were heard in the central city of Yazd, on the island of Qeshm and in the port of Bandar Abbas next to the strait, Iranian state media reported.
The United States and Iran agreed to cease fighting in June to allow negotiations to end the war.
The ceasefire was largely respected, although Iranian attacks took place on oil tankers to force them to comply with Tehran’s demands that the ships seek permission to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian attacks on the ships were followed by US strikes against Iran.
However, talks appear to have made no progress and Trump declared a ceasefire last week.
Since then, in addition to attacking Iranian sites, the United States has also reimposed a naval blockade of Iranian ports.
Iran declared the strait closed to shipping and traffic largely stopped.
A fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas passes through the strait and the head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, has expressed concern about global energy supplies.
The US military also denied a report from the Iranian Fars news agency according to which two tankers “exploded and caught fire while crossing a mined road south of the Strait of Hormuz”. Centcom said: “Like most of the IRGC’s claims, this is false. »
On Friday, Iranian armed forces claimed to have attacked several US military installations in the Gulf region, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and – for the first time – Syria, which the US denied.
Sources told BBC News, the BBC’s US partner, that several US service members were injured in Iranian attacks on two Jordanian bases over the past week.
The United States has meanwhile denied Tehran’s earlier claims that it attacked civilian infrastructure in Iran, including bridges, a train station and an airport.
BBC Verify and BBC Persian have verified footage of the damage to the Gariveh Bridge, after nighttime videos showed a ball of flames above it. Images taken in daylight showed a collapsed section of road with rubble surrounding the broken bridge. Provincial authorities in the affected region, Hormozgan province, said seven people were killed in the attacks.
A White House spokesperson told the BBC that the United States had “conducted strikes exclusively on military targets, including military logistics infrastructure.”
The United States also said it had destroyed a control tower at the port of Chabahar, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sharing an image of the tower collapsing after being hit by a strike. Centcom said the tower was part of an IRGC maritime surveillance network.
