{"id":1087664,"date":"2026-07-14T01:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1087664\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T01:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:09:16","slug":"us-and-iran-begin-new-exchange-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1087664\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Iran begin new exchange of fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 The U.S. launched strikes on Iran early Tuesday morning, hours after President Donald Trump<\/a> said Washington is \u201creinstating\u201d a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>. Trump separately suggested the United States will charge other ships for safe passage, upending hundreds of years of American policy supporting freedom of navigation across the globe.<\/p>\n

Iran responded with attacks targeting Bahrain and two tankers associated with the United Arab Emirates traveling through the strait, killing one mariner and wounding eight others. The Emirates threatened to retaliate against Iran, potentially drawing the nation home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai back into fighting with Tehran. <\/p>\n

The attacks come as Iran and the U.S. both vie for control of the strait through which a fifth of all crude oil and natural gas once passed in peacetime. The price of benchmark Brent crude oil rose 7.8% to $81.92 a barrel<\/a>, still well below the nearly $120 reached at the height of the war but threatening to make costs everywhere higher.<\/p>\n

Trump insists strait will be open<\/p>\n

U.S. Central Command announced on social media that the U.S. military had begun another round of strikes against Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese strikes will continue imposing a heavy cost on Iranian forces and degrade their ability to attack innocent civilians and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d the U.S. military said.<\/p>\n

Moments after the military announced the new strikes, Trump called it \u201canother major attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hitting them very hard. And it\u2019ll continue, and we\u2019ll see what happens,\u201d he told reporters in the Oval Office. \u201cWe\u2019re knocking out all of their offensive capability and we\u2019re controlling the straits. We\u2019re putting the blockade back.\u201d <\/p>\n

Trump also provided new details on his administration doing an about-face and suggesting it will charge tolls for ships going through the strait, after previously suggesting that it wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re protecting a very rich portion of the world,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re spending money. And so, what we\u2019ve done is, we are going to be reimbursed for protection.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a change in U.S. policy that, until now, said the strait should remain open to all without tolls \u2014 as it was before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28. Any attempt by the U.S. or Iran to charge fees would violate global norms<\/a> on freedom of navigation and raise tensions, likely causing further economic disruption<\/a> far beyond the region.<\/p>\n

Attacks resume across the Mideast<\/p>\n

The United Arab Emirates\u2019 Defense Ministry said early Tuesday that Iran attacked two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, killing one mariner and wounding eight others.<\/p>\n

The Emirati Defense Ministry said Iran launched two cruise missiles at the tankers Mombasa and Al Bahiyah.<\/p>\n

The attacks set both tankers ablaze, though the fires were extinguished.<\/p>\n

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Bahrain also came under renewed attack early Tuesday morning as Iran retaliated over the latest round of U.S. airstrikes. Bahrain sounded its missile alert siren, urging the public to seek shelter. There was no word on any damage or casualties from the attack.<\/p>\n

The Emirati Defense Ministry said the attack on the tankers killed one Indian national and wounded six Indians and two Ukrainians.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UAE reserves its full right to respond to this escalation and to take all necessary measures to protect its territory, its citizens and residents,\u201d the Defense Ministry added.<\/p>\n

The Emirates used similar language before launching attacks against Iran during the war. Fighter jets could be heard overheard Tuesday morning in Dubai.<\/p>\n

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Boak, Weissert and Toropin reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Mae Anderson in New York, Christopher Weber in Los Angeles, Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut, Munir Ahmed in Islamabad and Stella Martany in Irbil, Iraq, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 The U.S. launched strikes on Iran early Tuesday morning, hours after President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1087665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[2528,51,32,2721,12264,4179,10680,774,14535,83163,8617,285,8547,74677,2723,69179,49,978,659,7660,10673,263],"class_list":["post-1087664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-bahrain","tag-business","tag-donald-trump","tag-dubai","tag-fires","tag-general-news","tag-government-and-politics","tag-iran","tag-iran-government","tag-iran-war","tag-military-and-defense","tag-politics","tag-religion","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-united-arab-emirates-government","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1087665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}