US Bombs Iran for a Twelfth Night as Oil Spikes Anew
American forces struck Iran for a twelfth consecutive night, US Central Command said, hitting “maritime capabilities, missile and drone storage facilities, coastal surveillance sites and air-defence assets”. Explosions were reported across the south, from Bandar Abbas to Bushehr. Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, was defiant: “The equation for this war is clear: it is all or nothing.” The Pentagon puts its losses at eighteen dead and 482 wounded.
Central Command said the campaign was designed to keep degrading Tehran’s ability to threaten shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, which it insists remains open; Iran’s health ministry says a month of American strikes has killed 53 people and injured 592. President Trump maintained his pressure-and-talk approach, claiming Iran was “not ready” for a deal “but will be very soon” — a characterisation an Iranian official dismissed as “completely unfounded”. A mediator-brokered ten-day truce, floated by Qatar, Egypt, Oman and Pakistan, remains unaccepted. Watch whether Washington makes good on its threat to strike the fortified enrichment site south of Natanz.