Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps closed the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday and launched retaliatory strikes against U.S. military installations in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan. The actions followed American airstrikes on Iranian targets.
The IRGC said the closure and attacks were a direct response to U.S. bombing of Iranian sites. The strait is one of the world’s most critical oil shipping lanes, and any disruption carries global economic consequences.
Strikes on U.S. bases in the three Gulf kingdoms represented a significant widening of the confrontation beyond Iranian territory. American forces maintain large presences in each of those countries.
The sequence of events — U.S. airstrikes followed by Iranian retaliation and the Hormuz closure — underscored the rapid deterioration of security in a region already on edge from days of cross-border attacks.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/11/iran-war-day-104-iran-says-it-attacks-us-bases-after-american-strikes