Daily brief
The US military fired a Hellfire missile at a tanker near Iran, disabling the vessel as it sailed to Iran's Kharg Island. Iran retaliated by striking a US military base and targeting Kuwait and Bahrain with missiles, while the IRGC Navy hit the US-Israeli cargo ship MSC Sariska. A senior Iranian officer said renewed war with the US is 'inevitable', and explosions rocked Iran's Qeshm Island as Kuwait intercepted a wave of missile attacks.
The IRGC Quds Force chief warned that Bab al-Mandab will become like the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran-backed militias in Iraq announced plans to place weapons under state control.
Two Britons held in Iran lost their appeal against a 10-year prison term, their family said.
France detained a tanker linked to an Iranian network accused of moving Russian oil, and the UN warned that war with Iran threatens humanitarian supply chains.
A man accused of plotting 20 Iran-linked terror attacks in Europe and Canada appeared in court, and an alleged IRGC-linked plot to assassinate Ivanka Trump involved a blueprint of her Florida home.