US-Iran strikes: latest developments

The United States carried out fresh strikes on Iran and renewed a blockade of its ports, while Tehran targeted American allies in the Gulf and vowed the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed "until the US ends its aggression".

Here are Wednesday's latest developments:

Iran hangs protester

Iran hanged a man on Wednesday, the judiciary announced, after finding him guilty of taking part in anti-government protests that rocked the country at the start of the year.

"Mohammad Amini Dehaghani, a collaborator with the enemy, was hanged this morning after confirmation of the verdict by the supreme court," the judiciary's press agency reported.

Bahrain intercepts barrage

Bahrain's military said it had intercepted aerial attacks from Iran.

"The General Command of the Bahrain Defence Force announces that Iran continues its systematic hostile approach through its criminal attacks that target civilians," it said in a statement adding the military "succeeded in intercepting and destroying a number of the treacherous Iranian aerial attacks this morning".

Sailor's body found

The body of an Indian sailor who went missing after his ship was attacked off the coast of Oman has been recovered, a seafarers' union official said.

Heramb Karmarkar, a 30-year-old marine engineer from the western Indian city of Pune, had been missing since Sunday's attack on the Cypriot-flagged GFS Galaxy.

Iran military deaths

US strikes killed seven Iranian military personnel in a missile attack on a barracks close to the city of Iranshahr in the southeast on Wednesday, the Iranian army said.

Bushehr targeted

Fresh US strikes hit Iran's southern port city of Bushehr, home to the country's only civilian nuclear plant, state news agency IRNA reported.

"The American enemy attacked three locations in Bushehr today," the city governor, Mohammad Mozafari told IRNA.

US military completes latest wave of strikes on Iran

The US military Central Command said it carried out a new wave of strikes on dozens of military targets in Iran.

"US fighter aircraft, drones, and naval vessels launched precision munitions against Iranian missile and drone sites, naval capabilities, and coastal defense systems during the seven-hour wave to further degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping and civilian crews," CENTCOM said.

Earlier, CENTCOM said the strikes were aimed at "degrading Iranian capabilities used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz."

Iran Guards say Hormuz will remain shut

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until the United States ends its "acts of aggression" and warned that other regional oil export routes could also become targets.

"The enemy should know that now that its maritime raiders have blocked the Indian Ocean route for oil and gas exports to the world -- thereby endangering the interests of America's economic rivals -- it should also expect the closure of other oil and gas export routes that serve the interests of the United States and its allies," the statement said.

They did not elaborate on which routes could be affected.

"Oil and gas exports from the region will either be available for everyone or for no one," they added.

Iran attacks US targets in Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain

Iranian state-run television IRIB reported that Iran's army and the Revolutionary Guards carried out separate attacks on US targets in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain.

The army said it targeted the Al-Azraq base in Jordan with drones, IRIB reported. Separately, the Guards said they fired cruise missiles at a US military logistics centre in Kuwait.

The Guards also said they struck facilities used by the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.

Kuwait and Jordan said they intercepted drones and missiles from Iran, while Bahrain's interior ministry said sirens rang out.

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