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16:30
Bahrain Directs Citizens To Safety After Tehran Attack Claims
Bahrains Interior Ministry on July 18 advised its citizens and residents to head to a safe place as Tehran claimed it had targeted the Jufair military base in the north of the island.
The Jufair base, known as the Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain, is the home of the US Fifth Fleet in the region.
The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) has not commented on the Interior Ministry’s announcement and the Iranian claim could be not independently verified.
The siren has sounded, citizens and residents are urged to remain calm and head to the nearest safe place, the ministry said in a social media post.
The ministry did not release any details about Iran’s claim of an attack, potential casualties, or damage to infrastructure.
Citing the Baghdad-based AlGhadeer TV, Irans official news agency, IRNA, reported that Tehran had targeted the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet.
Meanwhile, other media reports, quoting Irans Fars news agency, suggested that five key ports hosting the US military or commercial interests could be hit by Iranian strikes.
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13:51
Iranian Prisoners Continue Strike Against Executions
Hundreds of inmates at Irans largest prison, Ghezel Hesar, are staging a hunger strike against the possible execution of six prisoners whom, rights organizations say, have already been shifted to solitary confinement.
Radio Farda, quoting the Iranian Human Rights Organization,reported that the protest began in Unit 2 of the prison on July 12,where the authorities are keeping around 1,500 prisoners.
A video posted by Iran Human Rights on X shows dozens of men lining both sides of a corridor inside a building, some holding Persian-language placards calling for an end to executions.
RFERL was unable to verify the location of the video and the date it was recorded.
According to the Iranian Human Rights Organization, the condition of some of the hunger-striking prisoners was critical but the authorities refused to transfer them to hospital for treatment.
The rights organization also released a video showing two apparently unconscious prisoners and their cellmates asking if they can be transferred to a hospital.
The prisoners on death row have reportedly been convicted of drug-related charges. Ghezel Hesar prison, in the city of Karaj, around 20 kilometers northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran, is holding around 20,000 prisoners of whom 13,000 are facing charges relating to drugs.
Irans Ghezel Hesar Prison has a history of mass protests. In February 2024, prisoners started the No to Executions Tuesdays by staging a weekly hunger strike every Tuesday against the increasing number of death penalties. In one of those protests, prisoners sewed their lips together.
There has been no comment from Iranian officials in Tehran or from inside the Ghezel Hesar prison.
In a May 2025 statement, the New York-based Amnesty International reported that the Iranian regime has executed an unprecedented 2,159 people in 2025, the highest number globally since 1981.
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11:38
Iran Warns Gulf Neighbors Of ‘Corresponding’ Military Response
In a stark warning following the seventh night of US strikes against Iran, the regimes Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said that the country’s Gulf neighbors must be ready to receive a corresponding and proportional response.
In the statement, the IRGC warned the host nations with US military bases to activate their civil defense units and relocate civilians away from potential military targets, Irans semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on July 18.
The IRGC warning came hot on the heels of an apparent shift in US military strategy, with strikes expanding from targets near the Strait of Hormuz to multiple sites across central and southern Iran on July 18.
Quoting the IRGC, Irans ISNA news agency reported that the groups’s fresh warning is Irans direct response to a shift in the US military strategy over the past 24 hours.
Referring to the ongoing US strikes in its statement, the IRGC justified its warning by stating that Iran is executing the reciprocal defense following the failure of international bodies to halt these actions.
On July 17, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said the fresh strikes are designed to continue degrading Iranian military capabilities at the direction of the commander in chief (US President Donald Trump).
CENTCOM said it “hit surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities employing fighter aircraft, aerial drones, and warships in addition to other assets.
Earlier, Irans top military officials had threatened full-scale offensive operations if the US continued striking Iran for another two or three days. Quoting Major General Mohsen Rezaei, who is a senior military adviser to Irans Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, Iranian news agency IRIB reported that “Iran will no longer limit itself to retaliatory, like-for-like responses…and no political border will be safe.”
Meanwhile, Tehran continued firing drones and missiles toward neighboring Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar on July 17, resulting in damage to infrastructure.
Al-Jazeera reports that the security threat level was elevated in Qatar amid sounds of loud explosions in the capital, Doha, early on the morning of July 17. Quoting the Qatari Interior Ministry, the TV channel said a child was injured by falling shrapnel during the attacks.
Qatar hosts a major US military base and has been the target of regular Iranian drone and missile strikes since the beginning of the conflict in late February.
In Kuwait, the countrys Electricity, Water, and Renewable Energy Ministry said in a July 17 statement that a power and water desalination plant was hit in the Iranian strikes that sparked a fire, damaging a large number of electricity generation units.
As hostilities continue with risk of further expansion of the war, there are fresh calls for an immediate cease-fire and a resumption of dialogue.
On July 17, the foreign ministers of China and Pakistan, in a joint appeal, called for a return to the cease-fire agreed upon between Iran and the United States last month.
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03:46
CENTCOM Says Seventh Night Of Attacks Concluded At 5 A.M. Iran Time
The US Central Command at 5 a.m. Iran time on July 18 said its latest wave of strikes — the seventh night in a row of attacks — had been concluded.
“US Central Command (CENTCOM) hit surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities. US forces employed fighter aircraft, aerial drones, and warships in addition to other assets,”it said on X.
Iranian media earlier reported that at least two bridges and a tunnel had been hit by US forces. News outlets also reported that three people had been killed in the attacks, but the report could not be independently verified.
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02:35
Hormuz Shipping Comes To Near Halt Amid Latest Flareup Of Violence
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — through which some 20 percent of the worlds crude oil and gas supplies transited prewar — has almost ground to a halt again following the renewed exchange of attacks, according to data supplier Kpler.
Only eight ships passed through the strait on July 16, the lowest figure in three weeks and down from 15 passages a day earlier and from 48 two weeks ago,Kpler said.
“Seven of the eight transits used the Iranian route, highlighting a growing concentration of movements through higher risk corridors as operators reassess security, crew safety, and insurance exposure,” it said.
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“While regional mediation efforts remain under way, commercial shipping patterns suggest military developments are now shaping operational decisions more than diplomatic progress.”
Prewar, more than 100 vessels on average passed through the waterway each day.
The reduction in transit traffic has led to major shortages of oil and gas throughout the world and pushed energy prices sharply higher.
Prices had dipped and traffic increase following an interim cease-fire agreement between Washington and Tehran, but the latest attacks by both sides has again disrupted shipment of supplies.
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22:21
17.7.2026
Exiled Iranian Kurdish Group Reports 9 Killed In Suspected Iranian Attack
At least nine members of an Iranian Kurdish armed opposition group based in Iraq’s Kurdistan region were killed on July 17 on an attack the exiled party blamed on Iran.
Idriss Kohlwazi of the exiled Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan told AFP: “The Iranian regime attacked at 4:30 a.m. (0130 GMT) with drones and rockets a camp.”
The strikes killed nine members of the party at their camp near the city of Sulaimaniyah, he said.
The Iraqi government also blamed the attack on Iran.
The attacks come amid renewed military escalation between the US and Iran.
Thousands of self-exiled Iranian Kurds have established bases in the semiautonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region. The Iranian Kurds, although keeping ties, maintain separate militias from the Iraqi Kurds in the region.
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22:06
17.7.2026
US Hits Iran For Seventh Straight Night As Tehran Strikes Gulf States
US forces have launched a new wave of attacks on Iran, marking the seventh straight night of strikes described as looking to degrade Tehran’s military capabilities.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in an X post that it “launched a round of strikes against Iran at 3 p.m. ET today [10:30 p.m. on July 17 in Iran] for the seventh consecutive night. The strikes are designed to continue degrading Iranian military capabilities at the Commander in Chief’s direction.”
