Key Facts

• The US Central Command (Centcom) launched a "new wave" of strikes against Iran for the ninth consecutive night, targeting military sites and communications networks to "further diminish" Tehran's attacks on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
• Explosions were heard across several Iranian cities, including Tabriz, Chabahar, Konarak, Bandar Mahshahr, and Bandar Imam Khomeini, with Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reporting that multiple cities had been hit.
• The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed that two oil tankers had exploded as they tried to cross the Strait of Hormuz, but Centcom disputed the claims, while the IRGC warned that the strait "will not be safe for the transit of petrochemical products, nor even a single drop of oil and gas" as long as the US strikes continue.
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that the US "always remains open to a diplomatic solution" but also emphasized that "the world has to decide whether or not it's going to allow an international waterway to be under the control" of Iran.
• The US confirmed that a service member had been killed after an Iranian attack in northern Iraq on Saturday, and that two US soldiers were killed and another was reported missing in an attack on a base in Jordan.