Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned that “not a single drop of oil and gas” would pass through the Strait of Hormuz if what it called US “aggression” continued.
The warning came after the Iranian military said it disabled two oil tankers trying to cross the strategic waterway without its permission, though the claim could not be independently verified.
The US military said it had completed the ninth consecutive night of strikes on Iran, targeting military command centres, missile and drone launch sites, coastal surveillance systems, and maritime capabilities to “further diminish Iran’s ability to attack commercial vessels and civilian mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz”.
The latest strikes came a day after a US soldier was killed in what was described as the controlled detonation of unexploded Iranian ordnance in northern Iraq.
Meanwhile, air raid sirens sounded in Bahrain, and Kuwait said its air defences responded to hostile drones as Iran retaliated against America’s Gulf allies in the wake of the latest strikes.
Oil prices climbed above $90 a barrel amid fears of further disruption to shipping through the vital waterway.
