{"id":218840,"date":"2026-07-30T23:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-launches-heavy-wave-of-new-attacks-on-iran-al-jazeera\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T23:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:08:14","slug":"us-launches-heavy-wave-of-new-attacks-on-iran-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-launches-heavy-wave-of-new-attacks-on-iran-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"US launches \u2018heavy wave\u2019 of new attacks on Iran &#8211; Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Iranian media report that a couple and their two-year-old child were killed in the latest US attacks on Qeshm island.<\/em><br \/>Save<br \/>Share<br \/>The United States has launched a \u201cheavy wave\u201d of attacks against Iran after a five-night pause, following Iranian missile attacks on US forces a day earlier.<br \/>The US military\u2019s Central Command (CENTCOM) said it had \u201csuccessfully completed a heavy wave of strikes against Iran\u201d as of 10pm ET on Wednesday (02:00 GMT on Thursday). It said the attacks were in response to Iranian strikes on US forces stationed at a US base in Jordan a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian media reported that three civilians were killed in the latest strikes. Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) also said three of its personnel were killed in a US missile attack.<br \/>After the US attacks, Jordan and Kuwait reported Iranian strikes on their territory on Thursday. Kuwait said one person was killed.<br \/>CENTCOM claimed its strikes hit dozens of IRGC targets, according to a statement posted on X, including \u201cmilitary command centres, missile and drone facilities, coastal surveillance and defence sites, and maritime capabilities\u201d.<br \/>The attacks came hours after US President Donald Trump promised to hit Iran \u201cvery hard\u201d.<br \/><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><br \/>Reporting on the casualties from the US attacks, Iranian media said a couple and their two-year-old child were killed when the residential building they were in was struck on Qeshm island \u2013 the biggest island in the Gulf.<br \/>Bombings were also reported in the southwestern cities of Ahvaz and Abadan. The semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported that power outages occurred in Ahvaz as a result of the strikes. The city is in Iran\u2019s oil-rich Khuzestan province.<br \/>A deputy security minister in Khuzestan also told Iran\u2019s state broadcaster IRIB that US forces targeted \u201csome locations in Abadan\u201d.<br \/>In addition, attacks were reported in the southern province of Bushehr, as well as the cities of Kazerun and Farashband in the southwestern Fars province.<br \/>Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera\u2019s Resul Serdar Atas said these latest attacks are \u201cconcentrated in Iran\u2019s southern provinces, particularly those along the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz\u201d, similar to the US attacks during a recent 13-day campaign.<br \/>The US had <a href=\"\/news\/2026\/7\/27\/why-has-the-us-halted-its-bombing-of-iran\">paused<\/a> its attacks on Iran on Friday after nearly two weeks of continuous nightly strikes.<\/p>\n<p>The IRGC has said that as long as Washington\u2019s threats continue, Tehran\u2019s resistance will also go on, pledging to respond \u201ctoday\u201d.<br \/>Iran targeted a US airbase and command headquarters in Jordan after the US strikes on Thursday. Amman did not report any casualties, but the Jordanian Armed Forces said it intercepted five missiles launched by Iran.<br \/>Saudi Arabia denounced Iran\u2019s strikes on Jordan as a violation of \u201cinternational law and the principles of good neighbourliness\u201d, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported.<br \/>Separately, Kuwait\u2019s Defence Ministry spokesperson said on X that an Iranian strike hit \u2060a building belonging to \u2060a Chinese company in the north of the country, killing a worker and inflicting significant damage.<br \/>Major-General Saud Abdulaziz al-Otaibi said authorities had begun taking necessary measures to deal with the incident.<br \/>Despite what appears to be a surge in tensions, Pakistan has sought to reassure the international community, insisting that talks between Tehran and Washington are still under way.<br \/>\u201cNegotiations between parties are ongoing, particularly on [the] Strait of Hormuz and to de-escalate,\u201d Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Tahir Andrabi told reporters in Islamabad.<br \/>Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Thursday that talks with Omani officials over the Strait of Hormuz were continuing through several rounds in Tehran.<br \/>\u201cWhat is clear is that currently, the Strait of Hormuz is closed due to American actions and the insecurity that America has imposed on this waterway,\u201d Baghaei told the ILNA news agency. \u201cInternational shipping is being harmed and damaged solely because of American actions.\u201d<br \/>He said the situation was the result of \u201cmilitary aggression\u201d by the US and Israel that began on March 28 and continues in various forms. Baghaei cited attacks on Iranian vessels, what he called an illegal blockade of ports and transit routes, and continuing strikes against Iran.<br \/>Analysts have begun to question whether a diplomatic breakthrough is still possible following the escalation in hostilities between the US and Iran, which began earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Bohl, a senior Middle East analyst with RANE Network, a risk intelligence company, says the US has two likely escalation options.<br \/>\u201cThe first is the repeat of what America was doing prior to last Friday, which is focusing on targets and infrastructure related to Iran\u2019s blockade of Hormuz,\u201d he said.<br \/>\u201cOr it could be an escalation towards the bridges and power plant strategy that President Trump has repeatedly threatened over and over again.\u201d<br \/>The US is eager to end Iran\u2019s control of the Strait of Hormuz, through which a large percentage of global oil shipping passes.<br \/>Earlier, Iran rejected an Omani proposal on co-managing shipping routes through the strait.<br \/>The US Department of the Treasury announced new sanctions on Wednesday on two Iranian firms it said are integral to an IRGC-backed \u201cscheme\u201d that forces commercial vessels to buy insurance to transit Hormuz.<br \/>\u201cThe United States will not allow Iran to hold global commerce hostage or use international shipping to finance the IRGC\u2019s terrorism, aggression, and repression,\u201d Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote on X.<br \/>CENTCOM claimed the latest strikes aimed to \u201cfurther diminish threats posed by Iran and its proxies to American forces, commercial shipping, and neighboring Gulf nations\u201d.<br \/>Former Pentagon official David Des Roches told Al Jazeera that the latest US strikes were \u201cnot a very overwhelming attack\u201d, adding that Trump is perhaps, \u201ctrying to keep things proportionate, or to keep things open for diplomacy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Al Jazeera English:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijgFBVV95cUxOZUJwNER6Z1d6T0p5aVBwUnpZM2JUQWFxR2pSdVB4cVhCVGZkRDBvcVV4WDMwS0hEUDhpNTdWaEszeURRc1otQnJ3Z0toUlF3bThfN1Zvam5EYlItMU5JVU0yalYyT0RFS29Ycl9WSXZzUnpkQ004SmRfMFR3SUZRdmg0a3FBckd0LVhFMlNB0gGTAUFVX3lxTE1id1NxcERIelVSWk9aamxvSE1tQ3duZkY5VFRPVm5hQzd4bEp6MENxeXNjRlhIczlvbG1ZQ19HeHJxY2JNOE5LVHVqMGhYeGhGa3Z6QjZnNjhQcjRBcHNXeVRObXN4a2l6WUtxcUpTalNYSEdRR3k5dEJKN3lFZjEwcFFzLVFzZkx1NXJsMFByQnJWZw?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian media report that a couple and their two-year-old child were killed in the latest US attacks on Qeshm island.SaveShareThe United States has launched a \u201cheavy wave\u201d of attacks against Iran after a five-night pause, following Iranian missile attacks on US forces a day earlier.The US military\u2019s Central Command (CENTCOM) said it had \u201csuccessfully completed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}