{"id":277304,"date":"2026-09-03T22:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/277304\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T22:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:16:37","slug":"iran-buries-victims-of-reported-us-wedding-attack-fires-on-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/277304\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran buries victims of reported US wedding attack, fires on Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEHRAN, Iran \u2014 Iranian mourners carried caskets on Thursday at a funeral for victims of a U.S. airstrike said to have struck a wedding party, \u200band Tehran launched missiles and drones overnight at a U.S. base in Kuwait, after the war’s biggest escalation in more than a month.<\/p>\n

Mourners assembled in the late afternoon outside the village of Kuhestak in Sirik \u200cCounty, along a stretch of the coast of the Strait of Hormuz that was hit by heavy U.S. airstrikes late on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Iranian officials say four people died \u2060and nearly 70 were wounded by a strike that \u200bhit a home during a wedding. The U.S. military said \u2060it was aware of the Iranian reports but “never targets civilians.”<\/p>\n

“This is the body of Martyr Amir-Mohammad Karimi, a 4-year-old child \u200cwho war martyred in an \u200cattack on the country’s south by the criminal American regime,” a reporter from Iran’s Mehr news agency \u2060said in footage filmed in front of a pickup truck carrying a \u2060flag-draped coffin beneath a canopy of palm fronds.<\/p>\n

In other footage of the funeral, mourners threw petals into the air as doleful music played from a loudspeaker. A casket was carried past a row of soldiers standing at attention with rifles.<\/p>\n

US carried out heavy bombardments on Tuesday<\/p>\n

Washington launched the airstrikes on Tuesday<\/a>, hitting what it said were military targets along the coast in retaliation for Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

The sudden escalation of \u200cthe Iran war<\/a> has caused a surge in oil prices to levels unseen since \u200bJuly. Price rose for a fourth straight day on Thursday, taking Brent crude futures over $96 a barrel.<\/p>\n

Iran reported<\/a> 18 dead in the last U.S. assault, including the four killed at the wedding. It responded on Wednesday to the U.S. strikes with attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, and carried out further attacks early on Thursday, saying it was targeting another U.S. base, in Kuwait.<\/p>\n

Kuwait’s military said its air defenses had intercepted missiles and drones. But following that, the war’s biggest flareup since July appeared to subside, with no more major attacks \u200bfrom either side reported as the day wore on.<\/p>\n

The month of August was largely quiet in the Gulf after President Donald Trump abruptly \u200chalted two weeks \u200cof intensive airstrikes in \u2060July, having been warned by his military that Washington was running low on munitions.<\/p>\n

Trump has yet to achieve the aims he set out when he launched Operation Epic Fury in February: to end Iran’s nuclear program, halt its ability to attack its neighbors and create conditions for Iranians to topple their leadership.<\/p>\n

Iran’s economy has suffered severely from a U.S. blockade. But its clerical \u200crulers remain in power and aim \u200bto emerge from the war stronger than before, demanding the lifting \u200cof sanctions and hoping to collect \u2060fees from ships that use \u200bthe strait, which carried a fifth of global oil and gas shipments before the war.<\/p>\n

\n The Key Takeaways for this article were generated with the assistance of large language models and reviewed by our editorial team. The article, itself, is solely human-written.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN, Iran \u2014 Iranian mourners carried caskets on Thursday at a funeral for victims of a U.S. airstrike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[551,550,3528,553,559,34,552,558,179,42,81,555,556,549,554,547,557,548],"class_list":["post-277304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-finance","tag-homes","tag-international","tag-iran","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-military","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117209424307038262","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}