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2026-07-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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America vs. Iran round-up July 13, 2026: US continues to degrade Iran’s war stuff, reinstates naval blockade since Iran won’t comply with MOU they signed
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. All from Regnum.
Several rogue vessels were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz
Several "violator vessels" were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Iranian Tasnim news agency.
The authors do not specify who carried out the attack, but Iranian authorities use the word "intruder" to describe ships that attempt to pass through the strait without Tehran's consent.
"Several rogue vessels were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz," the agency wrote.
US President Donald Trump announced on July 13 that the American military was taking control of the Strait of Hormuz and resuming the naval blockade of Iran in the strait.
Trump: US Reinstates Naval Blockade of Iran
The United States is resuming its naval blockade of Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. US President Donald Trump announced this on July 13on the social media platform TruthSocial.
"The Strait of Hormuz is open and will remain open—with or without Iran. We are reimposing the Iranian blockade, so called because it merely prevents Iranian vessels or their clients from entering or exiting the strait," the politician wrote in the publication.
Trump also clarified that all other countries will be able to use the Strait of Hormuz on an open and fair basis.
On June 15, Washington and Tehran signed a memorandum ending the conflict. The agreement called for an immediate cessation of hostilities on all fronts, including the IDF operation in Lebanon. However, on July 8, the White House announced that the US-Iran ceasefire was no longer in effect.
On July 12, US Central Command reported another round of strikes on Iranian territory. Tehran, in turn, began retaliating against US targets in the Middle East. Later, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced a successful strike on a US airbase in Jordan.
Iran attacked US facilities in Kuwait, media reports say
The Iranian army attacked US facilities in Kuwait. Press TV reported this on July 13
"In response to repeated US attacks, the Iranian army used kamikaze drones to strike American military communications systems, fuel depots, a Patriot air defense system, a control tower, and an ammunition depot in Kuwait," the channel explained.
The Iranian Navy also launched a retaliatory strike with cruise missiles against an American warship.
The escalation of tensions in the Middle East was provoked by the United States and Israel, who launched a military operation against Iran on February 28. They also attacked Lebanon under the pretext of fighting Hezbollah. Iranian forces responded with strikes on American and Israeli military installations and blockaded the Strait of Hormuz. On June 15, the United States and Iran signed a memorandum on ending the conflict. The agreement called for an immediate cessation of hostilities on all fronts, including the IDF operation in Lebanon.
Meanwhile, both sides repeatedly violated the ceasefire. On the night of July 8, the United States launched a series of powerful strikes against Iran. President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire with Iran no longer in effect. Furthermore, Trump formally announced to Congress the resumption of hostilities and the military's launching of "defensive strikes" against Iranian targets. On July 13, the American leader announced that the United States was resuming its naval blockade of Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. According to Trump, Iran had failed to comply with the terms of the memorandum, and the signing of the document was a test that Tehran failed. Therefore, the United States intends to launch serious strikes against Iran, Trump stated.
Trump announced the US intention to launch very strong strikes against Iran.
The United States intends to launch significant strikes on Iranian territory in the coming days. This was announced by US President Donald Trump on July 13.
"We're going to hit them [Iran] very hard this evening. And we're going to hit them very hard tomorrow. And there's not a damn thing they can do about it," Trump said in an interview with American radio host Hugh Hewitt.
Iran, according to Trump, failed to comply with the terms of the memorandum, and the signing of the document was a test that Tehran failed. The White House leader suggested that the US could bomb Iran's Natanz nuclear facility "quite soon."
The IRGC announced retaliatory strikes on US targets in Bahrain and Oman.
Iran's armed forces announced the destruction of US military infrastructure in Bahrain, as well as air and maritime radars in Oman. This was reported on July 13 by Iran's state broadcaster IRIB.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that its naval forces had struck American facilities and infrastructure in Juffair, setting them on fire. The IRGC also claimed to have struck and destroyed a long-range airborne radar and a ship-detection radar in Oman.
The operation was reportedly carried out in response to US strikes on the territory of the Islamic Republic. In a statement, the IRGC accused the US of inhumane behavior, noting that Washington had struck an agricultural water pipeline in the Iranian city of Mahshahr. The IRGC also warned that the Strait of Hormuz would only reopen after American interference ceased.
CENTCOM forces successfully struck a submarine and ship maintenance facility in Iran
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Yesterday, using multiple one-way attack surface drones, CENTCOM forces successfully struck a submarine and ship maintenance facility in Iran. Three Corsair unmanned surface vessels hit the port at Bandar Abbas Naval Base, marking the first time American forces have employed sea drones in combat operations. Last night’s strikes degraded Iran’s ability to continue attacking commercial shipping.
US strikes Iran for 3rd night in a row as Trump weighs taking out Pickaxe nuclear site
[IsraelTimes] US president says the mountain facility ‘is a possible target for a nice big fat shot’; Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claim responsibility for attacks on Bahrain and UAE tankers that killed a crew member, wounded 8 others
US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
said Monday he would probably soon order a strike on the Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site, as he declared American military forces would hit Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
hard over the coming two days.
Trump’s remarks came as the US military confirmed launching strikes on Iran for a third consecutive night, while the Islamic Theocratic Republic carried out attacks on Bahrain and two Emirati oil tankers, killing a crew member and wounding eight others.
"We’re going to hit them very hard tonight and we’re going to hit them hard tomorrow — and there’s not a damn thing they can do about it," Trump told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt. "They have nothing. They have nothing going other than they have big mouths."
Asked about Pickaxe, which was not among the three nuclear facilities targeted by the US last year, Trump said the US was closely surveilling it.
"Pickaxe is a possible target for a nice big fat shot right near the front door," he said.
"We see no activity there. They’re not doing well with their nuclear situation... We’ll probably give Pickaxe a shot relatively soon," Trump added.
Satellite images released earlier this month showed recent construction and vehicle activity at Pickaxe, which is tunneled into a mountain near the main Natanz nuclear facility. The exact purpose of the site is not known, and inspectors from the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency have never been granted access.
According to the Institute for Science and International Security, there has been persistent activity at Pickaxe since April, when a ceasefire was declared in the US-Israeli war with Iran. The think tank argued that any work carried out at the site violates the memorandum of understanding signed by Washington and Tehran.
In the interview Monday, Trump downplayed the importance of that MOU, saying it was just a "test" which did not mean very much because the US was dealing with dishonorable "sleaze bags" who did not adhere to its terms. Trump said he questioned why the US was entering into a deal to create a ceasefire with Iran rather than moving toward a full deal first, after declaring last week the ceasefire was "over."
"They didn’t honor the test," he said.
Tehran lodged a similar accusation at the US, while claiming the MOU acknowledged its control over the Strait of Hormuz, legitimizing its demand that ships crossing through the channel follow its rules.
Asked about his pledges to help Iranian anti-regime protesters and whether they should return to the streets, Trump cautioned against the idea, given that the unarmed demonstrators were no match for the regime button men cracking down against them.
He claimed that he never thought a popular uprising against the regime was possible, even though he declared in a speech on the first day of the war that Iran’s people should take over their government once the bombing subsides.
Asked to respond to claims by Israeli journalists that he has thrown Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under the bus through the MOU, the terms of which have sparked profound concern in Israel, Trump insisted that was not the case, claiming that he gets along with the Israeli premier very well.
"Sometimes I disagree with him, and I let it be known, and I’ve been right," Trump said, before reiterating that Netanyahu has done a good job as a "wartime prime minister" and that Israel would not exist today if the two of them were not in power.
With Israeli elections approaching, Trump was also asked whether someone in Israel could do a better job than Netanyahu. The US president said he did not know most of the alternatives, but that he had a good relationship with Netanyahu.
Pressed on whether he should green light resumed Israeli conflicts Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
and Hezbollah, Trump claimed the US has made a "lot of progress" toward getting Hamas to disarm and again touted the terror group for helping recover the bodies of slain Israeli hostages.
’REIMBURSED FOR PROTECTION’
Speaking later Monday at the White House, Trump said he wanted the US to be reimbursed by Gulf countries in the region for working to secure the Strait of Hormuz amid the ongoing Iranian attacks there, as he provided new details on his administration doing an about-face and suggesting it will charge tolls for ships going through the key waterway, after previously suggesting that it wouldn’t.
"I want to be reimbursed because we’re protecting a very rich portion of the world. We’re spending money, so... we are going to be reimbursed for protection," Trump told news hounds in the Oval Office, singling out Saudi Arabia
 ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
, the UAE, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Bahrain and Kuwait as countries that the US has protected.
Many of those Gulf countries have privately faulted the US for launching a war against Iran without coordinating with them and without a plan for what it would do when Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. Those countries have since found themselves bearing the brunt of Iran’s retaliatory strikes.
Trump spoke about the US "protecting allies... including Israel, including Saudi Arabia, including Qatar, including UAE. We’re protecting all of them, and we’ve done a very effective job."
He was peppered with questions about how long he expects the latest escalation with Iran to drag out, given that he campaigned on avoiding protracted conflicts. Trump reiterated that the US was striking Iran hard overnight, but claimed the current round of escalation would end quickly.
Trump said Iran agreed to a deal over the weekend that would have led to deescalation before backing out of the agreement "because they found out there was something in the deal they didn’t like."
Asked if he thought that it would be possible to reach a settlement with Iran, Trump responded, "I never reached that conclusion. But we’re hitting them very heavy tonight."
"They’re going to fight for a while... and we’ll see what happens," he said.
The US military said its latest strikes were aimed at "imposing a heavy cost on Iranian forces and degrading their ability to attack innocent civilians and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz."
"During the five-hour mission, US forces successfully struck military targets across Iran including Bushehr, Chah Bahar, Jask, Konarak, Abu Musa, and Bandar Abbas to further degrade Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping," US Central Command later said in a statement. "CENTCOM forces employed precision munitions against Iranian coastal defense systems, missile and drone sites, and maritime capabilities."
"American forces remain vigilant, lethal, and ready," it added.
Iranian media reported explosions in Bandar Abbas, Kish and Qeshm islands and on Abu Musa Island in the Gulf. Iran’s Fars news agency said residents in the city of Jam in Bushehr province also heard several explosions but that the exact location of the blasts was not clear. No casualties were reported.
Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province was hit by US projectiles early on Tuesday, Fars news agency reported, citing a provincial security official, adding that four people were maimed and rescue operations were underway.
The United Arab Emirates defense ministry meanwhile announced that two national tankers were targeted by two Iranian cruise missiles in the southern lane of the Strait of Hormuz in Omani territorial waters, killing an Indian crew member and wounding six other Indians and two Ukrainians, four of them, including four seriously.
The ministry said fires broke out on both tankers but were brought under control and condemned the attack as a serious breach of international law.
"The UAE reserves its full right to respond to this escalation and to take all necessary measures to protect its territory, its citizens and residents," the defense ministry added.
The UAE used similar language before launching attacks against Iran during the war. Fighter jets could be heard overheard Tuesday morning in Dubai.
Bahrain also came under renewed attack overnight as Iran retaliated over the latest round of US Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s. Bahrain sounded its missile alert siren, urging the public to seek shelter. There was no word on any damage or casualties from the attack.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps later grabbed credit for the attacks, saying the two "offending supertankers" were hit and disabled after ignoring warnings, turning off navigation systems and attempting to pass through "a mined route."
The IRGC, in a statement to Iranian media, said the US was "inciting vessels to use an illegal route" and that cooperation with the "aggressor enemy" would result in damage, delays in reopening the strait and a global energy crisis.
Regarding its drone and missile attacks on Bahrain, the IRGC claimed to target "several weapons support warehouses, a satellite communications center and the residential building for US forces in Bahrain."
The incidents, which followed earlier exchanges of missile and drone attacks, extended the hostilities that followed Iran’s announcement at the weekend that it was closing the Strait of Hormuz, casting further doubt on an interim deal to halt the war and driving oil prices higher.
"The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran. We are reinstating THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE," Trump insisted earlier on Monday on Truth Social.
"The U.S.A. will be, from this point forward, known as ’THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,’ but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped."
Iran’s top joint military command said the US had no role in determining the future of the waterway and would not be allowed to intervene. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote on X that Tehran was the guardian of the strait and would remain so "forever," adding in response to Trump’s comments that: "20% is of course too much. We will be fair."
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