US military completes 11th night of strikes on Iran as attacks overshadow diplomacy

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. subject said it completed the 11th nighttime of strikes connected Iran aboriginal Wednesday arsenic attacks crossed the Middle East overshadowed diplomatic efforts successful Pakistan to salvage an interim ceasefire woody that has collapsed.

U.S. Central Command said targets included craft hangars and drone retention sites. The newest barrage came aft President Donald Trump telegraphed that strikes would beryllium intensifying.

Before the latest strikes, Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni visited Pakistan, a cardinal mediator successful the conflict, seeking to revamp diplomacy. But it was unclear what caller statement mightiness beryllium reached to extremity the war, which lately has go a conflict for power implicit the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway captious to satellite vigor supplies.

Speaking from the Oval Office connected Tuesday, Trump gave a dim presumption connected imaginable talks, saying the U.S. had “no involvement successful meeting.” He signaled that U.S. forces could soon people an country of Iran adjacent to 1 of its main sites for enriching uranium.

With negotiations and shipping done the Strait of Hormuz mostly stalled, some sides person sought to summation leverage by targeting civilian infrastructure successful the portion relied connected by millions of people.

A barrage of U.S. strikes hasn’t loosened Iran's grip connected the strait, done which astir one-fifth of the world's crude lipid and earthy state was shipped earlier the war.

The U.S. continued its airstrikes into Wednesday, with Iranian aerial defenses activating adjacent the capital, Tehran. Iran's state-run IRNA quality bureau reported that explosions rocked Bushehr, East Azerbaijan, Hamadan, Hormozgan, Khuzestan and Sistan and Baluchistan provinces.

That came aft Iran attacked a tanker successful the strait Tuesday, forcing the unit to wantonness the ship. Iran besides kept up attacks against U.S. allies successful the region. Iran besides launched attacks against Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait.

The escalation pushed vigor prices higher. The planetary benchmark for crude lipid traded Wednesday supra $92 a tube and regular gasoline successful the U.S. climbed to an mean of $4 a gallon.

With U.S. midterm elections approaching successful the fall, polls person pointed to the unpopularity of the warfare among Americans, who person felt the symptom of pricier state and seen caller casualties successful a struggle that weeks agone seemed to beryllium winding down.

The fig of wounded U.S. unit successful the Iran warfare has grown to good implicit 500 troops, a U.S. authoritative told The Associated Press. The full is higher than the Pentagon’s authoritative tally connected the Defense Casualty Analysis System, which presently shows 482 wounded.

The U.S. official, who was not authorized to sermon the substance with the media and spoke connected information of anonymity, said the strategy has a important lag successful reporting injuries. The authoritative said that was a relation of its plan and not intentional.

Iran-backed rebels successful Yemen unfastened a caller beforehand successful the Red Sea

In the Red Sea, Iran-backed Yemen's Houthi rebels person opened a caller beforehand against Saudi Arabia by declaring a naval blockade of the kingdom, threatening the travel of planetary lipid supplies and trade. With the Strait of Hormuz blocked up, Saudi Arabia has been relying connected a pipeline to the Red Sea to get millions of barrels of lipid retired to market.

A quality bureau successful Yemen that is tally by the Houthis, SABA, said Tuesday that six ships successful the Red Sea were forced to reroute aft they received warnings from the rebel group. The Associated Press could not instantly corroborate the claim.

Three Houthi officials said the radical warned planetary shipping companies connected Monday to debar transiting done the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the gateway to the Red Sea connected the other broadside of the Arabian Peninsula from the Strait of Hormuz. The officials spoke connected information of anonymity, saying they weren't authorized to talk to journalists.

Trump says US has ‘no interest’ successful Iran talks

Momeni, Iran's interior minister, met Pakistan’s service main Field Marshal Asim Munir, according to 2 officials who spoke connected information of anonymity to sermon the closed-door negotiations. Momeni aboriginal met Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

In a statement, Sharif expressed heavy interest implicit the caller U.S.-Iran escalation, and urged each sides to workout restraint and debar actions that could further destabilize the region.

Pakistan’s governmental enactment and Munir, who serves arsenic some the main of service unit and defence forces, played a cardinal relation successful brokering past month’s interim statement betwixt the U.S. and Iran. Islamabad has been moving to transportation some sides to instrumentality to the negotiating table.

Trump told reporters that Iranian officials "want to desperately meet. And until they’re acceptable to conscionable successful a meaningful way, we person nary involvement successful meeting.” He said the U.S. would soon people the country adjacent Pickaxe Mountain — a fortified underground tract adjacent 1 of Iran’s superior atomic enrichment facilities.

Iran's subject leaders said immoderate onslaught connected atomic oregon “other delicate facilities” would beryllium considered a large escalation, according to a connection reported by Iranian authorities media.

A heavy level of mistrust persists connected some sides. Iran came nether a astonishment onslaught successful June 2025 and again successful February portion it was engaging successful atomic negotiations with the U.S. The interim woody unraveled erstwhile Iran resumed attacks connected ships successful the Strait of Hormuz, which was expected to beryllium reopened nether the agreement.

US strikes travel arsenic ships are attacked

The British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations halfway said a tanker came nether onslaught aboriginal Tuesday successful the strait disconnected Oman, forcing the unit to wantonness the vessel.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard claimed work for the attack, arsenic good arsenic 2 different attacks connected ships Monday successful the waterway.

The way adjacent to Oman's shores has been the 1 the U.S. subject has encouraged ships to question to debar Iran’s control.

To enforce the blockade successful the strait, arsenic of Tuesday U.S. forces person redirected 8 commercialized vessels and disabled one, CENTCOM said connected X.

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Ahmed reported from Islamabad. Contributing were Associated Press writers Fatma Khaled successful Cairo; Sally Abou AlJoud successful Beirut; Collin Binkley and Konstantin Toropin successful Washington; and Christopher Weber successful Los Angeles.

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