The United States has struck more than 300 Iranian military targets over three nights — radar, launchers, and missile and drone stores — according to CENTCOM, after Iran hit a commercial vessel near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s strikes have now reached across the Gulf, and its neighbours are turning on it.
Kuwait reported a “hostile, criminal attack” on three northern border posts and a drone strike on an offshore oil platform that hurt one worker, Arab News reported. Qatar said shrapnel from intercepted Iranian fire wounded three people, including a child. Jordan and the UAE reported no casualties.
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) condemned the attacks on its members and Jordan, with Secretary-General Jasem Albudaiwi calling them a grave violation of international law, Asharq Al-Awsat reported. Qatar and Oman signing on mattered most: both have long been Tehran’s quiet channels to the West. Egypt joined too, its foreign minister pressing Qatar and Oman to help revive U.S.–Iran talks, Ahram reported.
Tehran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed and, through a new Persian Gulf Strait Authority, has moved to charge $1–2 million per vessel. Washington says traffic still runs, and oil has fallen from wartime highs near $120. Iranian state media offered conflicting, unverified claims of striking U.S. forces in Kuwait.
For years Iran hit the Gulf through proxies. Now it fires from its own soil at Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan, and at U.S. bases across the region. What began as a war between Iran, Israel and Washington has pulled in the Arab states too — and left Tehran more isolated as it fights on.
