Iran's Revolutionary Guards later released a statement threatening to deal "severely" with any military vessels transiting the strait, according to Agence France-Presse. read more
Airstrikes pounded Tehran on Tuesday, and Iranian officials urged young people to form human chains to protect power plants ... read more
Iran's state-imposed near-total internet shutdown is now the longest nationwide blackout on record in any country, according to a global monitor. read more
A visual guide to Iran's coastline and strategic islands Stretching some 1,800km (1,120 miles), Iran's southern coastline forms a vast maritime corridor from the marshy Iraqi delta in the west to Pakistan's rugged terrain in the east. At its centre lies the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow chokepoint through which 20 percent of global oil and gas flows. Scattered along this coastline are several islands that host military outposts, energy hubs, and geopolitical leverage points within what analysts describe as Iran's "strategic architecture" of control.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi condemned the targeting of civilian infrastructure. "Striking civilian structures, including unfinished bridges, will not compel Iranians to surrender," he said in a statement posted on X, adding that such actions "convey the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy in disarray". read more
Right. Trump is agile enough to do that? LMAO