Iran strikes US military bases in Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait - state media

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had struck US military targets and bases in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait, state media reported. The official news agency IRNA cited several statements released by the guards, known as the IRGC, saying they had attacked Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan, a US military drone command centre in Bahrain and airbases including Ali Al Salem in Kuwait. Kuwait's armed forces confirmed they were responding to "hostile aerial targets" as Iran carries out strikes on US interests in the Gulf. "The Armed Forces are currently intercepting hostile aerial targets within Kuwaiti airspace," the head of Kuwait's army said in a statement published by the state-run news agency KUNA. Meanwhile, the Jordanian military said it had shot down four Iranian missiles over the country, which Tehran said were intended as retaliation for US strikes. "At dawn today, air defence systems intercepted and shot down four missiles that had entered Jordanian airspace from Iranian territory," an official source from the Jordanian General Staff said, adding that there were no reports of injuries or damage to property. US says it completed strikes on dozens of Iranian targets The US military said yesterday it completed a new round of strikes in Iran aimed at preventing the Islamic Republic from attacking shipping in the vital Strait of Hormuz. "CENTCOM forces struck Iranian military air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats using US fighter aircraft, naval vessels, one-way attack aerial drones, and one-way attack sea drones for the first time," the US military said in a post on X. Hormuz traffic slows to multi-week low The number of vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz fell to multi-week lows yesterday, shipping data showed, as renewed strikes between the US and Iran and attacks on ships in the Middle East heightened safety concerns. Six vessels transited the strait yesterday, ship-tracking data from Kpler showed, the lowest number in five weeks. Tankers that exited the strait included the Very Large Crude Carrier Humanity, laden with two million barrels of Iranian oil and another tanker, Capetan Andreas, carrying about 500,000 barrels of ‌Kuwaiti oil products, the data showed, while three empty tankers entered the Gulf to load oil. Most of the tankers switched off their transponders when crossing the strait. There were no liquefied natural gas tankers that entered the strait over the weekend that were visible ‌on ship-tracking data. One tanker controlled by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co exited the strait between 10 July and 12 July, Kpler data showed. The vessel is ‌heading for Dahej port in India. US forces completed another wave of strikes ‌against Iran yesterday, hitting dozens of targets at multiple locations with precision munitions, the Central Command said. US President Donald Trump said yesterday that the Strait of Hormuz is open to commercial traffic, although Iran declared earlier that it closed the strait after a vessel travelled on an unapproved route and was struck. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said today that its navy stopped two ships in the Strait of Hormuz last night by shutting down their systems. It did not name the ships involved.