The United States intensified its strikes targeting Iran early Thursday (July 16, 2026), hitting targets further north for the first time. Air defences were heard in parts of Tehran on Thursday morning (July 16, 2026), state media said, and explosions rang out in northern and western parts of the country.
The statement said the U.S. military hit targets in multiple locations, including Bandar Abbas, home to Iran’s largest port and key navy and Revolutionary Guards facilities on the Strait of Hormuz.
Days of back-and-forth strikes by the U.S. and Iran across West Asia — and renewed threats to the Strait of Hormuz — have shredded the interim deal to end the Iran war and could tip the region back into all-out war.
The Iranian Army said on Thursday (July 16, 2026) that it targeted U.S. military facilities in Jordan with drones, state media reported, after the United States carried out another wave of strikes on Iran.
