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Key developments
• US-Iran strikes: The Middle East saw waves of attacks for a second day as the US and Iran further threaten their agreement to reach a peace deal. President Donald Trump’s decision to launch more strikes was due to his anger over the Strait of Hormuz not being open yet and Iran hitting ships transiting the oil chokepoint while he was attending a NATO summit, a US official said.
• On the ground: Explosions were reported in several Iranian ports, including Bushehr, Bandar Abbas and Sirik. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they targeted US military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in response.
• Threats traded: Trump said strikes would “get much worse” if Tehran again attacked ships in the strait after saying he thought the ceasefire was “over.” Iran’s top negotiator said it would retaliate against attacks, and said the strait “will only open with ‘Iranian arrangements,’ not American threats.”
Iran says it targeted US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it targeted US military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in response to the latest wave of US strikes, in a statement published by state broadcaster IRIB.
The IRGC’s Navy and Air Force said it launched a joint drone and missile attack on US infrastructure and facilities, including Camp Arifjan and Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait; and Shaikh Isa Air Base and Juffair in Bahrain.
Juffair is home to the Naval Support Activity, the primary US Navy base in the Persian Gulf, which hosts the US Fifth Fleet.
The IRGC said the strikes were in response to US attacks on Iran’s southern coastal provinces and on two bridges in eastern Iran, IRIB reported.
Earlier, the IRGC said the US struck a railway bridge in Aqqala, an area northeast of Tehran, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency. Video from Iranian media, geolocated by CNN, shows a damaged railway bridge close to Aqqala. CNN has reached out to US Central Command for comment on the bridge.
In a statement, CENTCOM said US forces struck “90 Iranian military targets” along the coastlines. It did not mention the bridge.
Sirens warning of an incoming threat were sounding in Bahrain and Kuwait Thursday morning, according to authorities. Kuwait’s Army said its air defenses were responding to “hostile missile and drone threats.”
The IRGC warned that it will expand its response to other American bases in the region if the US retaliates, according to the statement published by IRIB.
Khamenei's marathon funeral is nearing the end. Will Iran's new supreme leader make an appearance?
The marathon weeklong funeral for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will culminate on Thursday when his body is transported to its final burial site at the Imam Reza shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad – Khamenei’s birthplace.
A central question that has loomed over the funeral is whether Mojtaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader and son of the slain ayatollah, will make an appearance.
Mojtaba has not yet been seen in public and his absence has fueled doubts about his health and questions over who is leading the nation. He is thought to have been wounded in the joint US-Israeli attack that killed his father, mother and wife and other relatives.
Mojtaba’s first public appearance would be a huge moment. He has remained in hiding since the war began in late February, said to be communicating with his supporters only through written statements shared by Iranian media and attributed to him.
Iran’s Islamic Propagation Coordination Council announced on Thursday that a memorial ceremony will be held on Friday in the city of Qom “under the auspices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Imam Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei,” the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Thursday.
Whether this indicates that Mojtaba could make an appearance remains unclear. A more likely scenario is that the ceremony is being held on behalf of the supreme leader.
An appearance in Qom could make sense, however. The city is widely considered the second most sacred in Iran and the center of Shiite religious studies — Mojtaba studied there himself. On Tuesday, huge crowds filled the city’s streets for Khamenei’s funeral ceremonies, though the supreme leader remained absent.
CNN’s Mostafa Salem and Lex Harvey contributed reporting.
US completes latest strikes on Iran, hitting approximately 90 targets, CENTCOM says
The US military has completed its latest round of strikes against Iran, hitting approximately 90 military targets, according to US Central Command.
“U.S. forces struck approximately 90 Iranian military targets including air defense systems, coastal surveillance assets, missile and drone storage sites, naval capabilities, and military logistics infrastructure along Iran’s coastline. The latest strikes follow successful execution of offensive strikes in Iran the night before,” CENTCOM wrote on X.
CENTCOM said the strikes were intended to “further degrade Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping and innocent civilian mariners in the Strait of Hormuz.”
Damage seen in Iranian port city as US renews strikes
Video geolocated by CNN appears to show the aftermath of US strikes on a maritime control tower in the port city of Chabahar on Iran’s southeastern coast.
In the short video, visible damage can be seen on the exterior of the building. Another video, also geolocated by CNN, shows an earlier explosion at the same tower.
The head of the Chabahar Free Zone Organization, Mohammad Saeed Arbabi, confirmed the tower was “targeted and damaged” by US strikes, Iran’s Fars News Agency reported.
Chabahar –– which is on the northern shores of the Gulf of Oman, near Iran’s border with Pakistan –– was hit by explosions and power cuts on Wednesday night and into Thursday morning as the US began striking the country, according to Iranian state media.
The Imam Ali hospital in Chabahar was struck with debris from the strikes, according to Iranian state broadcaster IRIB. Two piers were also targeted in the port city, IRIB added
CNN’s Billy Stockwell contributed reporting.
"If you strike, you’ll get hit." Iran's top negotiator warns US
Iran’s parliament speaker has issued a warning to the United States as the two countries trade fresh strikes, saying, “if you strike, you’ll get hit.”
“Don’t flail around pointlessly, or you’ll sink even deeper: the Strait of Hormuz will only open with ‘Iranian arrangements,’ not American threats,” he said.
The fresh strikes came after US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he thought the ceasefire was “over,” and took aim at Iran’s leadership calling them “cuckoo,” “evil” and “scum.”
Iran says US has struck a railway bridge in northeastern Iran
Iran says the United States military has struck a railway bridge in northern Iran, in what would be a rare case of key infrastructure being targeted during the recent strikes.
A US missile hit a railway bridge in Aqqala, an area northeast of Tehran, near Iran’s border with Turkmenistan, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said, according to semi-official Tasnim news agency.
Video from Iranian media, geolocated by CNN, shows a damaged railway bridge close to Aqqala.
In a statement, US Central Command said US forces struck “90 Iranian military targets” along the coastlines. It did not mention the bridge. CNN has reached out to CENTCOM for comment.
Since the ceasefire agreement, the US has largely focused its attacks on military infrastructure in southern Iran, near the Strait of Hormuz, but this apparent strike is roughly 900 miles away from the critical waterway.
US cruise missiles struck areas around a bridge in Aqqala county early Thursday, said the unit of the IRGC stationed in Iran’s northeastern Golestan province. Earlier, state broadcaster IRIB reported an explosion has been heard in Golestan.
Speaking at the NATO summit in Turkey Wednesday, US President Donald Trump renewed a threat to target critical civilian infrastructure in Iran, suggesting the US may strike electric plants and desalination plants. “I don’t want to do that, but if we have to, we’ll take them out,” he said.
The targeting of critical civilian infrastructure like water and power plants could be considered a war crime.
Huge crowd of mourners carry Khamenei's coffin in Iraqi city
Large crowds of mourners gathered in the Iraqi city of Karbala overnight into Thursday local time as part of the marathon funeral ceremonies for the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Video from Iraqi TV shows a coffin being held aloft by mourners at the Al-Abbas Shrine in in Karbala, before it is swallowed by the crowd.
The spectacle is part of a weeklong funeral for Khamenei stretching across three Iranian cities and two holy sites in neighboring Iraq.
Khamenei’s body was transported to the Iraqi city of Karbala on Wednesday, and will be buried in his hometown of Mashhad, Iran on Thursday.
Iran's promised retaliation for US strikes appears to be underway. What to know
Explosions were heard in the Iranian city of Bushehr and in the northeastern Golestan province, according to Iranian state media, as the US launched more strikes against Iran on Wednesday night local time.
Now early Thursday in the Middle East, Iran’s promised retaliation for US strikes appears to have begun, with sirens warning of an incoming threat sounding in both Bahrain and Kuwait, according to authorities.
But thus far, the US strikes — and similar Iranian strikes — have not matched the geographic scope and intensity of those conducted earlier in the war.
Here’s what else you should know:
- President Donald Trump’s decision to move forward with more strikes against Iran today was due in part to his anger over the Strait of Hormuz not being fully open yet — and in part because Iran hit ships transiting the strait while he was attending a NATO summit, a US official familiar with the discussions told CNN.
- After US Central Command announced earlier that the US had begun additional strikes against Iran, Trump warned on social media that the attacks would “get much worse” if Iranian forces continued targeting ships in the strait. On his way back to Washington from the NATO summit, Trump also told reporters that Iran “called a little while ago, they want to make a deal so badly.”
- Most recently, Iran’s ambassador to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravani, condemned the latest spate of US strikes, calling them “a clear violation of the United States Charter and its international obligations, launched and continues to carry out large-scale military attacks against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
- As the US launched more airstrikes against Iran, the country’s southern port city of Chabahar was hit by power cuts, according to Iranian state media. And a hospital in Chabahar was struck by fragments from the strikes, according to Iranian state broadcaster IRIB.
- A firefighter was killed in a US attack on Iranshahr Airport in southeastern Iran, Iranian state media said. The attack also damaged the airport’s flight operations building and meteorological station, according to reports from IRNA and the Mehr News Agency.
- Trump also said Wednesday that whether the US will pull more troops out of Europe will “depend on Greenland” but did not provide specifics. During this week’s NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, he reiterated his desire for the territory but implied he knew it would cause problems for his relationship with the alliance.
CNN’s Billy Stockwell, Davis Winkie, Aida Karimi, Hira Humayun, Pamela Brown, Kit Maher, Dalia Abdelwahab, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Alayna Treene, Michael Rios contributed reporting.
Bahrain and Kuwait responding to incoming threat
Iran’s promised retaliation to US strikes appears to have begun, with sirens warning of an incoming threat sounding in both Bahrain and Kuwait, according to authorities.
The Kuwaiti Army said its air defenses are currently responding to “hostile missile and drone threats,” warning explosions may be heard.
Bahrain’s interior ministry said sirens are sounding and urged citizens to “remain calm and head to the nearest safe place.”
Iranian officials had warned of a response, following the latest US strikes on Iran Wednesday night.
Iran’s military has previously targeted US military sites in both Bahrain and Kuwait.
This post has been updated with additional information.
Iran's UN envoy condemns latest US attacks in letter to Security Council
Iran’s ambassador to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravani, condemned the latest spate of US strikes in a letter to the UN Security Council and secretary-general.
He pointed toward the US strikes targeting facilities in southern Iran including Bushehr and islands in the Persian Gulf.
Firefighter killed in US attack on airport, Iranian state media says
A firefighter was killed in a US attack on Iranshahr Airport in southeastern Iran, Iranian media reported.
The attack damaged the airport’s flight operations building and meteorological station, IRNA and the Mehr News Agency reported, citing the deputy governor of Sistan and Baluchestan province and the governor of the city of Iranshahr.
Trump denies a security concern was to blame for change in his flight plans
President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied that a security concern was to blame for him using the older Air Force One plane for part of his trip back home from the NATO summit.
Rather, Trump said the Qatari-gifted new plane went ahead to Mildenhall Royal Air Force Base in the United Kingdom so service members could see the plane. He said in a Truth Social post earlier that it was at “the entire Base’s request” and that there was “virtually no deviation of flightpath.”
“No, why would there be?” Trump said, when asked if there was a security issue. He also denied there were any problems with the plane itself.
He transferred from the old plane to the new plane for the second leg of his trip back to the US.
Trump said he has credible threats from Iran “all the time,” but didn’t say if there was a renewed one Wednesday, as the US has launched several retaliatory strikes against the country. He quipped to reporters flying on the plane with him: “If I go, you go.”
“They didn’t ask me to close mine, but if they did, I would have done it,” he said. “These are sick people, so I could see something like that. I didn’t know they did that.”
Trump irked by Iran attacking ships during NATO summit, official says
President Donald Trump’s decision to move forward with a fresh round of strikes on Iran Wednesday evening was due in part to his anger over the Strait of Hormuz not being fully open yet — and in part because Iran hit ships transiting the strait while he was attending a NATO summit, a US official familiar with the discussions told CNN.
Trump’s frustration spilled into public view while he spoke with reporters in Ankara, where he said he thought the ceasefire was “over” and telegraphed the new round of strikes. The official said the timing of Iran’s initial strikes in the strait particularly irked Trump, given they came while Trump was meeting with foreign leaders on the global stage at the NATO summit.
The official said Trump is losing patience with the pace of negotiations — specifically Iran’s appearing to slow walk Washington on the nuclear talks.
Trump says the US withdrawing more troops from Europe depends "on Greenland”
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that whether the US will pull more troops out of Europe will “depend on Greenland” but did not provide specifics.
“I haven’t made that final decision. A lot’s going to depend on Greenland,” he told reporters, adding that he would consider pulling out troops “if we don’t” make a “a very good deal in Greenland.”
Trump has privately floated pulling out up to a third of US troops currently stationed in Europe. He has also routinely floated a desire to take control of Greenland, which he insists the US needs for national security purposes. He has expressed interest in buying the island, or the US taking it by force or economic coercion, even as NATO ally Denmark and Greenland have firmly rejected the idea.
During the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, this week, Trump reiterated that he wanted the territory but implied that he knew it would cause problems for his relationship with the alliance.
Trump claims Iran called him asking to make a deal after repeated US strikes
President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that Iran called him asking to make a deal after repeated US strikes in the region, but that he doesn’t know if they’re “worthy.”
“They called a little while ago, they want to make a deal so badly,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One en route back from the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. “I just don’t know if they’re worthy of making a deal.”
Trump earlier Wednesday declared the ceasefire between the two nations “over,” after Iran struck multiple vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and the US retaliated.
“Every time they hit us, we hit them 20,” Trump said.
After US Central Command announced additional strikes against Iran, Trump threatened that military actions would get “much worse” if Iran launched more attacks.
Trump warns Iran attacks will "get much worse" if it continues striking ships
President Donald Trump warned Iran on Wednesday night that the United States’ retaliatory attacks would “get much worse” if Iranian forces continue targeting ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
“This is in retribution for yesterday’s bombing of ships by Iran. If it happens again, it will get much worse!” Trump said, after CENTCOM announced earlier that the US has begun additional strikes against Iran.
Along with the warning, Trump posted an image of an altered photograph published by Getty Images from June 15, 2025 in Tehran. It depicted a huge plume of smoke rising above two buildings, with a brightly lit cityscape in the background. The user who initially posted it later deleted it, adding, “I just double checked and this image is not from tonight. My mistake. I own it.”
The warning came after Trump shared three videos appearing to show damage from strikes, though he did not specify where and when they occurred. CNN has not independently verified the videos and has not been able to geolocate one of the videos. CNN has reached out to the White House for information on what the videos depict.
Ceasefire with Iran "has at least temporarily ceased," US official says
The ceasefire with Iran “has at least temporarily ceased,” a US official has told CNN’s Pamela Brown, who is aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in the north Arabian Sea.
The situation with Iran continues to be very dynamic and there could be more strikes beyond what was announced, the US official said. The US military is in a wait-and-see mode, the official said, and the targets tonight were missiles and drones, that could be used against US assets, like aircraft carriers.
The US also targeted things around the Strait of Hormuz that could threaten shipping. The US Navy was used in the latest round of strikes, which came from both land and sea, the official said.
Right now, operations on the USS Abraham Lincoln are defensive in nature. The ship could also be used for surveillance of the strait and in a potential blockade if reimplemented, the official said.
Offensive strikes have not been not ruled out depending on how things continue to unfold, they added.
Earlier today, US President Donald Trump said the memorandum of understanding with Tehran was “over” but that peace talks could continue.
Explosions heard in Iranian city of Bushehr
Explosions were heard in the Iranian city of Bushehr, according to Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency.
The exact location of the explosions is unclear, according to Fars.
Later, two US projectiles hit a military base south of Bushehr, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency, which cited the deputy governor for political and security affairs of Bushehr Province. The official told the agency that the government had not yet received reports of casualties.
The Persian Gulf port city is home to Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. However, Iran’s Nournews Agency, affiliated with the country’s Supreme National Security Council, said the power plant has not been damaged.
Latest US strikes are the fourth set since agreement was signed with Iran
Wednesday’s attacks on Iran by the US mark at least the fourth set of strikes since the memorandum of understanding between the two countries was signed in mid-June.
Thus far, the US strikes — and similar Iranian strikes — have not matched the geographic scope and intensity of those conducted during the earlier part of the war.
The extent of Wednesday’s strikes remains unclear, however.
