© UnknownKuwait power and water desalination plant
Kuwait on Friday, July 17, said that Iran attacked a power and water desalination plant, causing widespread damage to the station. About 90 per cent of drinking water in Kuwait comes from desalination, and any disruption can threaten life in the small, desert nation.
Kuwait's Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy Ministry announced the attack, saying it sparked a fire and "damage to a large number of electricity generation units." The country said it extinguished the blaze and was working to assess the damage and get the station working again. The ministry also urged citizens and residents to "rationalise" their consumption of electricity.
Meanwhile, Iran has claimed to have hit the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) platforms and missiles during attacks on Kuwait at several locations. According to Tehran, American forces and Israeli-backed soldiers were stationed at the sites.
"The attacks eliminated a large number of anti-revolutionaries and American special forces (and) the tit-for-tat operations are ongoing," the IRGC said.
Iran claims attack on Qatar's US air base
Iran has said that its forces attacked a US air base in Al Udeid in Qatar, in its 15th wave of attacks:
"The American enemy and the hosts of its bases in the region should know that crossing red lines and attacking people and civilian infrastructure will have a very severe and miserable price. If the enemy continues this trend, more crushing responses are on the way; responses that will remain in the history of battles."Tower collapses at Iran's Chabahar port after US airstrikes
The United States military's Central Command said it hit dozens of targets in its latest airstrikes, including Iran's Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman, a key trade route for landlocked, neighbouring Afghanistan.
The strikes also collapsed a tower at the port, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. The airstrikes concluded at dawn Friday the sixth night in a row of American attacks.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared the image of the surveillance tower collapsing, part of his effort to assert American control over the strait. That image had circulated on social media via activists prior to Hegseth sharing it.
Chabahar port, which Iran had been running with support from India, has been a repeated target of American airstrikes. Iranian state media acknowledged a third round of strikes on the facility without immediately acknowledging the tower's collapse.
Iran described the tower as overseeing commercial traffic into the port. However, Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard also operates at ports across the country.
As of 6 am Friday, the US strikes had killed at least 38 people and wounded more than 400 in Iran, Health Ministry spokesperson Hossein Kermanpour said.
US-Iran interim deal collapses as fighting continues
The conflict between Iran and the United States has intensified in recent days and an interim deal to end the fighting has collapsed less than a month after it was signed. The Memorandum of Understanding was supposed to halt all military operations and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway for global oil and gas. It also set the stage for further negotiations intended to lead to a permanent peace deal and an agreement on Iran's nuclear program within 60 days.
However, the fighting has resumed, effectively with US launching days of airstrikes on Iran in response to its attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has fired back at Arab countries hosting American troops.
UAE condemns Iranian attacks on Gulf states
The United Arab Emirates on Friday condemned "in the strongest terms" the Iranian missiles and drones attack on Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan.
In an official statement, the UAE's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said that the attacks constitute a blatant violation of the Arab nations' sovereignty. "These hostile attacks constitute a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of the brotherly nations and a threat to their security and stability," the statement read.
The Ministry reiterated the UAE's full solidarity with the Kingdom of Bahrain, the State of Kuwait, the State of Qatar, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It extended its support for all measures aimed at safeguarding security and stability in the region.
US attack on Bandar Abbas kills mother, leaving child with critical injuries
A woman has been killed in US attacks on Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, leaving her one-year-old child in critical condition after being injured by shrapnel. Iran's Tasnim news agency reported that the US airstrike in the Tappeh Allah Akbar residential area killed the mother and left eight other locals injured.
Moments before, the Iranian government had been restricting passenger train movement from Bandar Abbas station as the US attacked a railway point in the Hormuzgan region. The Hormuzgan Railways Administration directed commuters to take an intercity bus instead to the Fin station and catch the trains there.
Iran acknowledges US attacked its power infrastructure
Iran acknowledged "attacks on power infrastructure" during the United States airstrike campaign for the first time Friday, showing the escalation in the American military campaign.
Iran's Energy Ministry issued a call for people to use less power in southern provinces.
© UnknownUS strikes power infrastructure in Iran
Such strikes on power infrastructure had been suspected for days. Tehran city councilman Mehdi Chamran told journalists asking about electrical problems on Tuesday, "Just look at how many power facilities they hit ... and you wouldn't be asking that question."
US President Donald Trump had threatened to go after bridges and power plants as America vies with Iran over control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran targets US jets in Jordan, launches surprise attack on Syrian bases
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has said that it targeted US fighter jets in Jordan, according to Iranian State TV. Earlier, the Jordanian army had said that it intercepted three Iranian missiles targeting its nation.
The IRGC said in a statement that they destroyed "several US refuelling aircraft and fighter jets, causing serious damage to many more."
The army asked the Jordanians to target "the interests of the aggressive and anti-Islamic Americans" in their nation. The Iranian military has also claimed to have attacked the US special operations command centre in Syria's al-Tanf, state media reported, in retaliation for the alleged killing of Iranian soldiers in Iranshahr.
"In response to the atrocities of the child-killing American army, the IRGC Aerospace Forces fighters in the 11th wave of Operation Nasr 2, with the code name Aba Abdullah Al-Hussein (AS) and dedicated to the oppressed martyred soldiers of Bampour in Iranshahr, carried out a surprise attack on the enemy's special operations command center in the Tanf region of Syria.Suspected Iran attack on Iranian Kurdish dissident group in Iraq kills 9
"Not only did the attack destroy a radar system and several special operations helicopters, in retaliation for the blood of the martyred soldiers the night before in Iranshahr, but also it killed a large number of American criminal forces.
"Not a single drop of oil and gas will be exported from the region as long as the American atrocities continue.
"Complete control of the Strait of Hormuz remains in the hands of our brave warriors, and as long as the American atrocities continue, not a single drop of oil and gas will be exported from this region."
A suspected attack by Iran on an Iranian Kurdish dissident group in northern Iraq killed at least nine people Friday, an official with the group said.
The official with Komala, speaking on condition of anonymity due to security reasons, said others had been wounded in the strike.
Iran is believed to have carried out the attack, which included missiles and drones targeting the group in Zargwezala near Sulaymaniyah in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region, the official said.
Iran did not immediately claim the attack, though it has carried out repeated assaults targeting Kurdish dissidents in Iraq.
US attacks on residential areas reveal hypocrisy, says Iranian official
Head of the Iranian Parliament's National Security Committee, Ebrahim Azizi, said the US strikes on southern Iran near residential and civilian areas "reveal hypocrisy of those who preach 'human rights'."
© UnknownEbrahim Azizi head of the Iranian Parliaments National Security Committee
"The proud South has always been Iran's fortress of defence, and every Iranian's heart beats there. To the enemies of this resistant and victorious nation: The Armed Forces will not let the blood of the innocent go (unavenged)."Tankers under attack on Strait of Hormuz
A tanker came under attack while traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, taking the route closest to Oman, the British military said on Friday.
The report from the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said the ship sustained minor damage without any of its crew being injured.
Iran has been attacking tankers traveling on the route near Oman but did not immediately acknowledge any attack.
Hezbollah MP: Lebanese government taking country to dangerous place
Senior Hezbollah MP in Lebanon, Ali Fayyad, slammed the Lebanese delegation holding talks with Israel, saying the country is continuing negotiations "as if nothing has happened," referring to the ongoing Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon.
Fayyad, in a statement carried by the country's National News Agency, said:
"It seems clear that this authority has abandoned its people, and it is indifferent to their suffering and the extent of the crimes committed against them by the Israelis.
"The Lebanese authority seems determined to take the country to a very dangerous place, where it will not regain the land or restore sovereignty, and at the same time lose internal stability and the unity of the Lebanese."
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