NYT - Current time in Tehran8:27 a.m. June 11 Live Updated June 10, 2026, 11:20 p.m. ET2 hours ago Iran War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Trade Strikes for a Second Day The exchanges raise the specter of a return to all-out war in the Middle East. Share full article

urrent time in Tehran8:27 a.m. June 11 Live Updated June 10, 2026, 11:20 p.m. ET2 hours ago Iran War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Trade Strikes for a Second Day The exchanges raise the specter of a return to all-out war in the Middle East. Share full article ImageA crowd gather at night in Tehran. Enghelab Square in central Tehran on Monday. U.S. military strikes hit Iran early Wednesday and early Thursday, and President Trump threatened more if Tehran did not agree to his terms for peace.Credit...Arash Khamooshi/Polaris for The New York Times Latest Pinned Max BearakShirin Hakim and Lara Jakes Here’s the latest. The United States launched a new wave of airstrikes on Iran early Thursday morning local time, and Iran claimed to have responded with two waves of attacks, bringing the two sides closer to a return to all-out war. Hours earlier, President Trump vowed to keep up military pressure on Tehran because Iranian leaders were taking “too long to negotiate.” U.S. Central Command said the attack began at 5:15 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, or 12:45 a.m. on Thursday in Iran. Explosions were heard in Qeshm near the Strait of Hormuz, as well as the southern cities of Bandar Abbas, Minab and Sirik, according to Iranian news outlets. President Trump told a Fox News reporter on Wednesday night that the United States fired 49 Tomahawk missiles at targets inside Iran, in addition to bombing with fighter jets. Mr. Trump added the attack would be paused shortly but would resume on Thursday night if Iran did not capitulate in negotiations with the United States. Iran said it had responded with two waves of attacks on targets at U.S. airbases in Kuwait and Bahrain, but there was no immediate confirmation of that. Iran also said that the Strait of Hormuz was now closed to any type of vessel, including oil tankers and commercial ships. U.S. Central Command denied that the strait was closed. The latest exchange of fire followed U.S. strikes roughly 24 hours earlier, in which the American military said that its jets had hit multiple Iranian targets in response to the downing of an American Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. Iran responded with its own strikes on U.S. targets in the region. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made clear that the new strikes were meant not as retaliation for a particular military action but to pressure Tehran to agree to peace on terms agreeable to Mr. Trump. “If we need to negotiate with bombs, we’ll negotiate with bombs,” Mr. Hegseth told reporters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. “And we’re very good at it. Nobody better in the world.” The repeated U.S. strikes appear to contradict Mr. Trump’s repeated reassurances that a peace deal with Iran is imminent. They also further undercut the credibility of the cease-fire declared two months ago, after which U.S. and Iranian forces traded occasional attacks and issued almost daily contradictory claims about blame, the fighting and peace talks. The claimed cease-fire “is more like a lesser-fire, as we have seen with the escalating attacks and rhetoric over the last 48 hours,” António Guterres, the United Nations’ secretary general, said on Wednesday. Here’s what else we’re covering: Economic effect: U.S. consumer prices rose 4.2 percent in May compared with a year earlier, the highest pace of inflation since April 2023, amid the stalemate over Iran. Oil prices also jumped on Wednesday. Read more › Iran water tanks: An analysis of satellite images and photographs suggests that a precision U.S. attack early Wednesday hit drinking-water facilities in Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province, where temperatures have exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit this week. A local official said water service had been cut off for some 12 hours to about 20,000 people. U.S. Central Command did not respond to a request for comment on the report of the strike. Read more › Not-so-secret mission: Mr. Trump described a clandestine mission that involved spiriting millions of barrels of oil right through the Strait of Hormuz under Iran’s nose. But a U.S. military official said that the comments, made from the Oval Office and broadcast on live television, referred to a previously reported U.S. effort to steer commercial vessels through the strait. Read more › Show more Qasim Nauman June 10, 2026, 11:08 p.m. ET2 hours ago Qasim Nauman Kuwait’s civil aviation authority said it has temporarily closed the country’s airspace because of Iranian attacks and the potential risks to civilian planes. Flights have been diverted to alternative airports, the authority added. Qasim Nauman June 10, 2026, 10:19 p.m. ET3 hours ago Qasim Nauman The Kuwait Army says its air defenses are intercepting hostile targets, without saying whether they are missiles or drones, or where they came from. And in Bahrain, the authorities have activated warnings sirens, the interior ministry says, without mentioning what triggered them. Qasim Nauman June 10, 2026, 9:26 p.m. ET4 hours ago Qasim Nauman U.S. Central Command says American forces have completed their latest strikes against Iran. The attacks targeted Iranian military surveillance capabilities, communication systems and air defense sites, according to the Centcom statement. Shirin Hakim June 10, 2026, 9:07 p.m. ET4 hours ago Shirin Hakim Explosions and air-defense activity were reported across parts of southern Iran early Thursday. The clearest reports were concentrated in Hormozgan Province, along Iran’s southern coast, where Iranian state and semiofficial media listed explosions or impacts in Sirik, Minab and Bandar Abbas, a major port city with key military and naval facilities. In Asaluyeh, Iranian outlets reported air-defense activity and a possible missile interception, but officials continued to deny any attack or explosion at South Pars or nearby energy facilities, among the most important gas infrastructure sites in Iran. Farnaz Fassihi June 10, 2026, 9:02 p.m. ET4 hours ago Farnaz Fassihi Gen. Majid Mousavi, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards aerospace forces, threatened to turn the entire region into “hell.” In a short written statement published in state news agency IRNA, he said: “You are making the holy Strait of Hormuz unsafe? We will turn the entire region into hell from across Iran. This is the response to America’s aggression in the region.” Farnaz Fassihi June 10, 2026, 9:01 p.m. ET4 hours ago Farnaz Fassihi Residents of Karaj, a city about 20 miles southwest of Tehran, reported hearing large explosions in the early hours of Thursday morning. Iran’s armed forces have a missile factory and military bases in Karaj, including the Bidganeh military base. In March, the United States struck a major civilian bridge on a highway linking Karaj and Tehran that had not yet opened to the public. Shirin Hakim June 10, 2026, 8:41 p.m. ET4 hours ago Shirin Hakim Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they carried out two waves of attacks early Thursday targeting 18 important targets belonging to U.S. forces at Ali Al-Salem and Ahmad Al-Jaber air bases in Kuwait and Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain, according to IRNA, Iran’s official state news agency. The Guards said the strikes were carried out in response to American attacks on I.R.G.C. service units, coastal posts, police command sites and the Bandar Abbas airport area. They claimed the strikes had “hit and destroyed” the targets. The claim could not be independently verified, and there was no immediate confirmation from U.S., Kuwaiti or Bahraini officials. Christoph Koettl Christiaan Triebert June 10, 2026, 8:01 p.m. ET5 hours ago Christoph Koettl and Christiaan TriebertReporters with The New York Times Visual Investigations team Visual investigations An analysis of satellite images and videos suggest a precision strike on an Iranian water facility. Image A concrete wall left standing amid rubble on a hilltop, painted with a water-conservation slogan in green and blue Persian script. Broken concrete and debris litter the ground in front of it. A damaged building in Bemani, southern Iran, seen on a photo published by Iranian media, where a surviving wall still urges residents not to waste water: “Water is the pulse of life.” A Times analysis points to U.S. precision strikes that destroyed this structure and a second nearby.Credit...Rokna Strikes early Wednesday destroyed what appears to be a drinking-water facility on Iran’s southern coast, near the Strait of Hormuz, according to an analysis by The New York Times. Around the time of the strikes, the U.S. Central Command said in a post on X that it had conducted attacks near the strait “with precision munitions from U.S. Air Force and Navy fighter jets.” Iranian state media reported that the U.S. had hit water storage buildings and a local official said that water was cut off to more than 20,000 people living in a town and villages nearby. Temperatures in the area have reached above 100 degrees Fahrenheit this week. A commercial satellite image from the morning of June 9 shows two small water structures in the village of Bemani. Both have light blue pipes, typical for water distribution infrastructure, as is their location — on a hill outside of a populated area. The buildings are consistent with the description of the two storage tanks that Abdolhamid Hamzehpour, the head of the provincial water authority, said were destroyed. It is unclear if the U.S. intentionally struck the water facilities, or knew what was in the buildings. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime under international law. Image A satellite image labeled ‘Bemani, Iran, June 9’ showing arid, reddish-brown terrain. A white box near the center highlights two small light-colored structures, labeled ‘Water structures.’ A satellite image from June 9 shows the small structure on the left still intact.Credit...Airbus DS Videos released on Wednesday by Iranian media outlets, including state media, and the provincial water authority show that the roof of the smaller building collapsed. Image The collapsed roof of a concrete water reservoir, broken into large slabs with exposed steel reinforcing bars protruding upward. A deep cavity opens on the right where the structure caved in, with landscape visible on the horizon. A photo released by the provincial water authority, which described it as a water tank. The image’s location and timing was verified by The Times. Credit...Hormozgan Province Water and Wastewater Company The larger facility next to it still stands, but images show that it has a small impact hole in the center of its roof. The Times confirmed the images of the structure by matching the visible surroundings to reference imagery of the site. Image A nighttime photo of a cracked concrete surface with a small dark hole punched through its center, surrounded by loose debris and fragments The larger structure had a small hole punched through the roof. The hole’s size and placement are consistent with a precision strike. Credit...Aftab News A photo of fragments that Tasnim, a semiofficial Iranian news agency, said were recovered from the site showed remnants identified as a GBU-39 bomb by researchers with the Open Source Munitions Portal, a database of weapon fragments documented in conflict zones. The GBU-39, a small precision-guided glide bomb in the 250-pound class, is consistent with the damage shown in the footage of the damaged building: a clean hole punched through the building’s roof and limited blast damage around it. Both buildings stand outside the village, and there is no other infrastructure in the immediate vicinity. Hitting remote buildings and striking the center of a roof are considered likely indicators of a precision strike. In a text message, a Central Command spokesman said he was aware of the reports of damage at the facility, but did not provide further information. Mr. Hamzehpour, the provincial water authority leader, said that mobile water tankers had brought in water to supply residents while crews built a new service line that bypassed the damaged tanks, a task he said had been accomplished within 12 hours. John Ismay contributed reporting. Alexander Cardia contributed graphics editing. Translation was contributed by Artemis Moshtaghian. Show more Chris Cameron June 10, 2026, 7:49 p.m. ET5 hours ago Chris CameronReporting from Washington Trey Yingst, a reporter for Fox News in Tel Aviv, said that President Trump told him in a phone call that the United States fired 49 Tomahawk missiles at targets in Iran, in addition to bombings from U.S. fighter jets. Yingst added that Trump said that the bombing would pause shortly, but would continue on Thursday night if Iranian officials did not capitulate in negotiations with the United States. Shirin Hakim June 10, 2026, 7:42 p.m. ET5 hours ago Shirin Hakim After announcing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps navy warned vessels anchored in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman not to move, saying that approaching the strait would be treated as cooperation with the enemy, the country’s official state broadcaster, IRIB, reported. While much of Iran’s regular navy has been destroyed, the I.R.G.C. still deploys a flotilla of small, fast boats to disrupt maritime traffic through one of the world’s most important energy passageways. Image Credit...Reuters Farnaz Fassihi June 10, 2026, 7:25 p.m. ET6 hours ago Farnaz Fassihi Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said in a statement that Iran’s armed forces would respond “forcefully and definitively” to any aggression and attacks by the United States. Iran and the U.S. traded fire a day earlier and tensions have steadily escalated. The hard-line generals running Iran have signaled a willingness to settle the standoff militarily. Chris Cameron June 10, 2026, 6:57 p.m. ET6 hours ago Chris CameronReporting from Washington Speaking to reporters outside U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla., Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, did not directly answer a question about whether U.S. strikes in Iran could target civilian infrastructure, like bridges and electrical infrastructure, dismissing the reporter’s question as “impugning the motives” of the U.S. military and saying of Iran: “We will hit them hard, on our terms.” Pranav Baskar June 10, 2026, 6:56 p.m. ET6 hours ago Pranav Baskar Iran’s armed forces said in a statement carried by state media that the Strait of Hormuz was closed to any type of vessel, including oil tankers and commercial ships. Any ship trying to pass, the statement said, would be hit. It cited the reason as military clashes in the region, but Iran had already effectively closed the critical passageway shortly after the war began in February. The U.S. Central Command denied that the strait had been closed. A U.S. military effort has steered 200 ships through the strait in a little over a month. About 3,000 ships normally traverse it each month. Pranav Baskar June 10, 2026, 6:16 p.m. ET7 hours ago Pranav Baskar Iranian state media said several explosions hit the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, near an airport and an airbase. The report did not specify the source of the explosions, which came after U.S. Central Command said it was launching strikes against multiple targets in Iran. Bandar Abbas has been previously targeted by American strikes. Farnaz Fassihi June 10, 2026, 6:05 p.m. ET7 hours ago Farnaz Fassihi Prospects for a diplomatic breakthrough had grown dimmer when a Qatari mediating delegation departed Tehran on Wednesday evening with no progress in talks. Farnaz Fassihi June 10, 2026, 6:04 p.m. ET7 hours ago Farnaz Fassihi Tasnim News, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, said the United States had attacked a petrochemical plant in South Pars gas field located in Asalouyeh. Earlier Iran’s state television reported air defense around the energy plant in Asalouyeh being activated. Targeting critical energy infrastructure would represent a significant escalation in recent back-and-forth attacks. Eric Schmitt June 10, 2026, 5:49 p.m. ET7 hours ago Eric SchmittReporting from Washington The U.S. military resumed attacking Iran on Wednesday in what Central Command said were “self-defense strikes” against “mulitiple targets.” Central Command said the strikes were in response to “Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression.” The strikes followed back-and-forth attacks between the United States and Iran on Tuesday and early Wednesday after Iran downed a U.S. Army Apache helicopter gunship on Monday. Farnaz Fassihi June 10, 2026, 5:48 p.m. ET7 hours ago Farnaz Fassihi Iran’s state television said three explosions were heard in Sirik and in Minab, which were struck in the last wave of U.S. strikes. These locations are along Iran’s southern Persian Gulf coast, where military and naval outposts are located. Residents of Tehran said they heard air defense sirens from the western part of the government’s complex. Iranian officials have said they would retaliate forcefully to any U.S. strikes. Shirin Hakim June 10, 2026, 5:50 p.m. ET7 hours ago Shirin Hakim A bureau of the state broadcaster, IRIB, reported that air defenses were activated in Asaluyeh, a major energy hub near Iran’s South Pars gas facilities. Eric Schmitt Jonathan Swan June 10, 2026, 4:52 p.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Eric Schmitt and Jonathan SwanReporting from Washington Trump cites a ‘secret mission’ to ferry oil past Iran. The truth is less dramatic. Image Ships and boats sitting at anchor on a calm sea. Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, seen from Oman on Wednesday.Credit...Reuters It was a dramatic moment. President Trump seemed to be disclosing, on live television, a clandestine mission that involved spiriting away millions of barrels of oil, right under Iran’s nose. In Mr. Trump’s telling, the mission was so secretive that the Iranians were learning about it only at that very moment. “I can say it now. Something you didn’t know,” Mr. Trump told reporters from his seat behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office on Wednesday morning. “Do you know we’ve been taking out millions of barrels of oil? Nobody knows it. You know who doesn’t know about it? Iran — until right now.” “We took out, the other night, 22 ships, late at night, with no lights, because they don’t have any radar, because we blasted the crap out of it,” he continued. As often happens with Mr. Trump, the truth was less dramatic. According to a senior U.S. military official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the president was referring to an American effort to steer the passage of dozens of commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. While the operation was surreptitious enough — the U.S.-guided vessels have been turning off their transponders to avoid detection when crossing the narrow waterway — it could hardly have been news to Iran. Late last month, The New York Times published an article about the effort, reporting that U.S. Central Command had shepherded around 70 commercial ships through the strait. The number of vessels steered through the strait is now more than 200 in a little over a month, the military official said. Before the war, traffic through the waterway was typically about 3,000 ships per month. U.S. officials have declined to say what type of vessels were going through the strait clandestinely and what route they took, but one official indicated that at least one route was not close to the Iranian coastline. Ships passing near Iran without obtaining Iranian approval face the threat of an almost-certain attack by Iranian drones or missiles. Shipping analysts say the U.S.-guided crossings appear to follow routes that are closer to Oman. Later on Wednesday, the president claimed on social media that this “secret mission” that he authorized last month had resulted in more than 100 million barrels of oil reaching the open market. That claim could not be immediately verified independently. Show more James C. McKinley Jr. June 10, 2026, 4:50 p.m. ETJune 10, 2026 James C. McKinley Jr. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the United States would bomb Iran on Wednesday night. “Centcom, Central Command, will be busy tonight,” he told reporters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., “because President Trump said we will be hitting Iran hard, and we will be.” He added: “If we need to negotiate with bombs, we will negotiate with bombs, and we’re very good at it.” Video Michael Levenson June 10, 2026, 4:13 p.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Michael Levenson Iran’s representative to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, told the Security Council on Wednesday that President Trump should stop threatening Iran. “Iran has never negotiated under threats and pressure, and will never submit to pressure or coercion,” he said. Jonathan Swan and Eric Schmitt June 10, 2026, 3:38 p.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Jonathan Swan and Eric SchmittReporting from Washington There was a good deal of confusion earlier when President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that the United States had been bringing “millions of barrels of oil” through the Strait of Hormuz without Iran’s knowledge. A senior U.S. military official said that the president was referring to American efforts to steer the passage of dozens of commercial vessels through the strait. In other words: This is not some new clandestine effort to take Iranian oil. The Times published a story about this coordination more than a week ago. Image Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times Edward Wong June 10, 2026, 3:34 p.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Edward WongDiplomacy reporter The State Department announced on Wednesday that it was imposing sanctions on 13 entities and individuals based in Iran, Belarus and China, including in Hong Kong, that had tried to procure weapons for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a powerful arm of the Iranian military. Among the weapons the announcement specified are shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles known as MANPADS. American officials said weeks ago that they thought one or more Chinese companies were considering providing that kind of weapon to Iran. The Treasury Department said it was also imposing sanctions on nine individuals and entities trying to procure weapons for Iran. Shirin Hakim June 10, 2026, 3:00 p.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Shirin Hakim Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, accused the United States on Wednesday of deliberately bombing civilian waterworks in Sirik, in the southern province of Hormozgan. In a post on X, Baghaei said two reservoirs with a combined capacity of more than 660,000 gallons had been destroyed by American air strikes. Noting the reservoirs supplied drinking water to at least 20,000 people in 10 villages, Baghaei called the strikes “a calculated war crime” and a violation of international humanitarian law. Iran’s official state broadcaster, IRIB, reported earlier on Wednesday that water service had been restored in the affected area in less than 12 hours. Pragati K.B. June 10, 2026, 2:15 p.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Pragati K.B. India summoned a top U.S. diplomat in New Delhi on Wednesday to protest the attack by American forces on the Settebello, a Palau-flagged oil tanker, off the coast of Oman. Three of the 24 crew members aboard the tanker were still missing after the attack. It was the second time this week that U.S. forces blockading Iranian ports have struck tankers with Indian crews. “The continuing incidents of attacks on shipping in the region are deeply worrisome and a direct result of the ongoing conflict in the region,” the Indian foreign ministry said in a statement. Shirin Hakim June 10, 2026, 1:46 p.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Shirin Hakim Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, denounced the targeting of civilian infrastructure on Wednesday, after Iranian state media reported that U.S. air strikes had damaged drinking water facilities in Sirik County in southern Iran. “Critical infrastructure is the lifeline of people’s lives,” Pezeshkian wrote in a post on X. He said threats to transportation networks, power systems and water facilities were “not a show of strength, but a sign of desperation.” Image Credit...Angelina Katsanis/Associated Press Anushka Patil June 10, 2026, 1:16 p.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Anushka Patil President Trump said the United States has been bringing out “millions of barrels of oil” unbeknownst to Iran, by moving through the Strait of Hormuz “22 ships, late at night, with no lights.” He did not say what time period he meant. Ordinarily, dozens of oil tankers would pass through the strait each day, and thousands would have done so since the war began, if not for Iran’s blockade. Trump said he was announcing the action because Iran had “just figured it out.” He added, “I wanted to say it so badly, I didn’t want to ruin it.” Video We’ve been taking out millions of barrels of oil. CreditCredit...Reuters Max Bearak June 10, 2026, 12:57 p.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Max Bearak The U.S. military claimed responsibility for the strike that disabled a tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday, saying that the ship had violated a U.S. blockade “by attempting to transport oil from Iran.” In a video accompanying the announcement, a projectile can be seen hitting what the military said was the Palau-flagged ship’s engine room. So far, the statement said, U.S. forces have “disabled eight non-compliant vessels” since starting the blockade almost two months ago. James C. McKinley Jr. June 10, 2026, 12:53 p.m. ETJune 10, 2026 James C. McKinley Jr. The board of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency voted on Wednesday to demand that Iran provide complete information about its stockpile of enriched uranium and give U.N. inspectors access to Iranian nuclear sites. The resolution, passed by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board in Vienna, said the agency needed to verify that there has been no diversion of nuclear material that could be used to make a bomb. Rebecca F. Elliott June 10, 2026, 12:23 p.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Rebecca F. ElliottEnergy reporter International oil prices climbed modestly, above $94 a barrel, after Trump told reporters that he planned to attack Iran again. Prices are up 3 percent today but still well below wartime highs — and far lower than many expected they would be more than three months into the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Jonathan Swan June 10, 2026, 12:08 p.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Jonathan Swan A reporter asked President Trump what he meant by his social media post this morning where he said Iran would have to “pay the price” for being too slow to negotiate a deal. He said “we hit them hard yesterday and we’ll be hitting them hard again today.” But Trump then made clear that he still hopes he can strike a deal with Iran. The administration so far has tried to telegraph to Iran that it does not want to escalate even as it responds militarily to an Iranian drone’s downing of a U.S. Apache helicopter on Monday. Video “We’re going to be attacking them and attacking them CreditCredit...Reuters Max Bearak June 10, 2026, 11:58 a.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Max Bearak President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday that the United States would attack Iran again. “We’re going to hit them hard again today,” he said. His comments came after the U.S. launched strikes in southern Iran in retaliation for the downing of an American helicopter gunship. Image Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times Farnaz Fassihi June 10, 2026, 11:19 a.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Farnaz Fassihi The secretary general of the United Nations, António Guterres, said on Wednesday that the cease-fire in the Middle East “is more like a lesser-fire — as we have seen with the escalating attacks and rhetoric over the last 48 hours,” referring to the latest round of tit-for-tat attacks between Iran and the United States. Speaking to the Security Council, Guterres warned that the skirmishes could morph into a wider war that would engulf the region. “I call on all parties to honor the cease fire and redouble efforts to reach a lasting agreement,” Guterres said. Vivian Nereim June 10, 2026, 11:00 a.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Vivian NereimReporting from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Gulf Arab nations condemn new Iranian attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait. Image People walk past a mural depicting drones attacking a Star of David. People walk past a mural depicting drones attacking a Star of David in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Monday.Credit...Arash Khamooshi/Polaris for The New York Times Foreign ministers of Arab states on the Persian Gulf met on Wednesday to condemn a new round of Iranian attacks that targeted Bahrain and Kuwait, demanding an “immediate halt” to the hostilities and questioning whether their relations with Iran could be rebuilt. “Persistence in this aggressive approach will only lead to further isolation,” the ministers said in a joint statement after the meeting in Bahrain. Earlier on Wednesday, Bahrain’s military said it had intercepted and destroyed an unspecified number of missiles and drones launched by Iran, describing the barrage as a “treacherous” attack. Kuwait’s army also said that the country was intercepting hostile aerial projectiles, without providing further details. Later, Kuwait’s foreign ministry issued a statement strongly condemning “repeated Iranian attacks” against the country. Iran has continued to periodically strike the Gulf countries, which host major U.S. military bases, during the shaky cease-fire that began in April. Iran’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that it was the responsibility of Persian Gulf countries to prevent U.S. strikes on Iran from their territories and that Iran would not hesitate to defend itself by targeting the bases from where it is attacked. With the exception of Bahrain, most of the Gulf countries have generally denied that they have allowed U.S. attacks against Iran to be launched from their territories. President Trump, however, has repeatedly said that Gulf countries, including Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are fighting alongside the United States. The Gulf foreign ministers said in their statement on Wednesday that they blamed Iran “fully” for its actions. They demanded an “immediate and complete halt to any targeting of Gulf countries, their interests and citizens.” Still, they added, “the door to understanding remains open for those who choose a language of wisdom and good neighborliness.” Show more Leo Sands June 10, 2026, 9:06 a.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Leo SandsBreaking news reporter Two crew members were missing and the rest were being evacuated following a fire on a tanker off the coast of Oman, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations organization. The agency, which is administered by Britain’s Royal Navy, described the fire as “suspicious” and said the crew had reported on Wednesday that there was fire in the engine room. June 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Leo SandsSanam Mahoozi and James McManagan U.S. strikes hit drinking water facilities in Iran, according to state media reports. Iran’s state broadcaster reported that U.S. military strikes hit water facilities in the south of the country on Wednesday, damaging two concrete tanks and cutting off water supplies for thousands of residents. Video published by IRIB, the state broadcaster, and verified by The New York Times, showed a damaged concrete structure with a collapsed roof near the city of Kuhestak in Sirik county in Hormozgan province, on the coast of the Strait of Hormuz. IRIB said that the facility was a water tank. The Times could not independently verify that claim or what caused the damage. The broadcaster later reported that services had been restored within 12 hours. The IRIB report was published hours after U.S. Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East, said it had conducted strikes in southern Iran in response to the downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter on Monday. Video In response to a request for information about reports of damage to the water facilities in Sirik on Wednesday, Central Command declined to comment. Hours earlier, it said it had targeted Iranian air defenses, ground control stations and radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz with “precision munitions.” The strait is a vital route for oil and gas shipments. Iran’s effective blockade of the waterway has roiled global energy markets and become a major source of leverage in its negotiations with the United States on a deal to end the war. The U.S. military has previously launched strikes against Iranian facilities in Hormozgan. In March, airstrikes hit an underground air force base there. The two water tanks had a combined capacity of 2.5 million liters, Abdolhamid Hamzehpour, the chief executive of the province’s water company, said in a statement published on its website, adding that they were damaged by missiles. The water company said that the damage took both facilities out of service, cutting off water for 20,000 people in Kuhestak and 10 other villages in the district of Bemani. The structure is near the city of Kuhestak. Text painted on the hilltop structure reads: “Water is the pulse of life.” The most recent photographs available from Planet Labs, a satellite imagery company, showed the structure was undamaged in early January. During the summer months, Hormozgan province can rank among the hottest places on earth, with temperatures occasionally reaching 122 degrees. In Kuhestak, the heat hit 96 degrees on Wednesday. In the statement, Mr. Hamzehpour described the temperature as “unbearable” without water. Emergency crews were racing to reestablish water supplies, he said, adding that the authorities had dispatched mobile tankers to supply drinking water to the nearby villages in the interim. “In a region already facing extreme heat, chronic water scarcity, and a rapidly warming climate, the loss of drinking-water infrastructure is more than physical damage,” said Manoochehr Shirzaei, an Iranian environmental expert and geophysicist at Virginia Tech. “It threatens the health, resilience and daily survival of entire communities.” Show more Gregory Schmidt June 10, 2026, 8:44 a.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Gregory SchmidtReporting from New York Oil prices jumped on Wednesday after President Trump issued a new threat against Iran on social media, saying that Tehran would “pay the price” for taking too long to negotiate a deal to end the war. The price of Brent crude, the global benchmark, rose nearly 2 percent to about $93 a barrel, after falling earlier in the day. The war has caused oil prices to soar by almost 30 percent since the United States and Israel attacked Iran in late February, pushing up costs for consumers and businesses. Data published on Wenesday showed that U.S. inflation accelerated in May for a third-straight month to an annual rate of 4.2 percent, a sign that the war in Iran is putting more pressure on the economy. Adam Rasgon June 10, 2026, 8:27 a.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Adam RasgonReporting from Jerusalem A delegation of Qatari officials arrived in Iran on Wednesday to discuss efforts to negotiate a deal between the United States and Iran, according to a regional official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. The visit was also reported in Iranian media. Qatar, alongside Pakistan, has served as a key mediator between Iran and the United States in efforts to negotiate an end to the war. Pragati K.B. June 10, 2026, 8:12 a.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Pragati K.B.Reporting from New Delhi Indian sailors made frantic calls for help after a U.S. missile strike on Monday. Video Sailors Rescued After U.S. Missile Strikes Tanker Off Oman’s Coast 0:50 Indian sailors aboard a tanker that was struck by a U.S. missile sent distress calls for more than two hours before being rescued by the Omani military. U.S. Central Command said the ship was trying to sail to an Iranian port.CreditCredit...Reuters Two dozen Indian sailors aboard an oil tanker struck by a U.S. missile off the coast of Oman on Monday sent frantic SOS messages for more than two hours before they were rescued. “We have fire onboard, we have fire onboard. And vessel is sinking,” a crew member on board the ship, the Marivex, said in a voice message to Indian shipping authorities and organizations. “Please help, please help … We are all crew Indian. 24 crew,” the crew member added in the message, which was shared with The New York Times by Manoj Yadav, the general secretary of an Indian seafarers’ union. All the sailors were later rescued by a military helicopter from Oman and were taken ashore to Masirah Island, off Oman’s coast. The U.S. military’s Central Command later said that it had “disabled” the Marivex because the ship had violated its naval blockade of Iran by attempting to sail to an Iranian port. It said that a fighter jet from the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier had fired “into the ship’s engineering and steering spaces” after the crew failed to comply with directions from U.S. forces. Central Command said that it had disabled seven “noncompliant vessels” since April 13, when the Trump administration initiated a blockade of ships traveling to or from Iranian ports in an effort to put pressure on Tehran to make a deal to end hostilities with the United States. Both the United States and Iran have sought to exert control over the Strait of Hormuz — a vital maritime waterway for transporting oil, gas and other critical commodities — since they agreed to a cease-fire in April. Iran says that only ships that have permission from its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps will be allowed to pass. India’s shipping ministry said that it had received “reports of a fire” starting at about 1:30 p.m. Monday on the Marivex, a Palau-flagged vessel. The ministry’s initial statement on the matter did not specify the cause of the fire. Mr. Yadav, the general secretary of the Forward Seamen’s Union of India, said he started receiving messages from the crew a little after 2 p.m. Then came a flurry of frantic calls, messages and voice notes pleading for help, he said. Videos the crew shared with Mr. Yadav showed a fire in the engine room. One of the two lifeboats on the ship had been destroyed when the ship was hit and the second was inaccessible, he said. Mr. Yadav gathered the videos and messages and posted them on social media, tagging the Indian navy and India’s foreign affairs ministry. He said that the Indian Embassy in Oman then reached out to him and rescue efforts began. By 4:15 p.m., Mr. Yadav began receiving videos from the crew showing them being rescued by helicopter. At a news conference on Tuesday, Randhir Jaiswal, a spokesman for India’s foreign affairs ministry, said the ship had been “disabled” — echoing the U.S. Central Command — but that the crew was safe. He thanked the Omani government for rescuing the seafarers. Show more Leo Sands June 10, 2026, 7:16 a.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Leo SandsBreaking news reporter President Trump appeared to threaten Iran on Wednesday morning for failing to agree to a deal to end the war, hours after the U.S. military and Iranian forces traded strikes. “They’ve taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them, now they will have to pay the price!!!” he wrote on social media. Image Credit...Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times Leo Sands June 10, 2026, 6:37 a.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Leo SandsBreaking news reporter Israel’s military said that it was continuing its strikes against southern Lebanon on Wednesday morning, describing the offensive as an effort to target Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants. Hours after that statement, Israel’s military issued fresh evacuation warnings for residents in at least three towns and villages. Euan Ward June 10, 2026, 6:08 a.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Euan WardReporting from Beirut, Lebanon Iran’s foreign ministry accused the United States on Wednesday of undermining diplomacy after the two countries exchanged attacks, further straining the fragile cease-fire. Esmaeil Baghaei, the foreign ministry spokesman, said negotiations could not advance without “a minimum level of conducive conditions,” according to Mehr, a semi-official Iranian news agency. According to the report, Baghaei also accused Israel of derailing diplomatic efforts through cease-fire violations in Lebanon, where Israel is fighting Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group. The New York Times June 10, 2026, 5:44 a.m. ETJune 10, 2026 The New York Times Oil jumps and stocks sink after the fresh wave of strikes across the Middle East. Oil prices rose on Wednesday after President Trump told reporters that he planned to attack Iran again, after the United States and Iran traded new strikes across the Middle East. Global stocks mostly fell. The attacks, straining a two-month cease-fire between the countries, were the latest jolt to energy markets. The war in Iran has choked the Strait of Hormuz, which normally carries as much as one-fifth of the world’s oil. The effects of rising oil prices were evident in the latest monthly inflation report, released on Wednesday, which showed a 4.2 percent increase in consumer prices in May versus last year — the fastest pace since April 2023. The rise was driven almost entirely by energy prices, which as a category has risen 23.5 percent over the year before. Oil climbs. The price of Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, rose around 3 percent in the afternoon, to about $94 a barrel, before falling slightly. West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, was also up roughly 3 percent in afternoon trading, to around $91 a barrel, before dipping slightly. Oil prices had been wavering on Wednesday but jumped after Mr. Trump, in a social media post, appeared to threaten Iran for failing to agree to end the war. It climbed more after the president told reporters that he planned to attack again. Price of Brent crude oil How much the international benchmark costs 0 20 40 60 80 $100 per barrel Live Updates: U.S. Strikes Iran Again After Trump Says Talks Are Taking Too Long - The New York Times Notes: Data shows future contract prices for Brent crude oil. Gaps indicate nontrading hours. Data is delayed at least 15 minutes.Source: FactSet.The New York Times Stocks drop. The S&P 500 dropped 1.6 percent at the end of the trading day on Wednesday. Stocks in Asia, where countries import vast quantities of oil and gas, mostly fell. Volatility in technology stocks continued with the Kospi index in South Korea declining 4.5 percent and the Taiex in Taiwan dropping 3.3 percent. Japan’s Nikkei 225 closed 1.9 percent lower. In Europe, the Stoxx 600, a broad index that tracks the region’s largest companies, was flat. S&P 500 index How stocks are trading in the United States June 10 1.62 6,500 7,000 7,500 Note: Data delayed at least 15 minutes.Source: FactSet.The New York Times Gasoline prices dip. Gas prices fell a penny to a national average of $4.15 a gallon, according to the AAA motor club, but since the war began, the cost for drivers has risen by 39 percent. Gas prices don’t move in lock step with crude, usually trailing increases or drops by a few days. The average price of diesel also dipped to $5.30 a gallon, but is now up 41 percent since the start of the war. How High Are Gas Prices Where You Live? Here is a county-level look at where drivers are facing the highest costs. What they are saying: A ‘topsy-turvy’ week in markets. It has been a “genuinely topsy-turvy” week of trading thus far, Deutsche Bank analysts wrote, “with oil and tech whipsawing” markets on Monday and Tuesday. “Not only are we oscillating between deal or no deal with the U.S. and Iran, but markets are also swinging between 1999-style A.I. exuberance and 2000-type tech crash fears,” they noted. Show more Leo Sands and Sanam Mahoozi June 10, 2026, 4:29 a.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Leo Sands and Sanam Mahoozi Iran’s state broadcaster, IRIB, reported that drinking water reservoirs in the Bamani district of Sirik County, in the southern Hormozgan Province were hit by U.S. military strikes overnight. “Two desalination plants and the city’s water tank were destroyed,” the report said. The New York Times could not independently verify the report and U.S. Central Command did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Ismaeel Naar June 10, 2026, 3:27 a.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Ismaeel Naar Bahrain’s military said it had intercepted and destroyed a number of drones and missiles launched by Iran on Wednesday, describing them as “treacherous” attacks. Sanam Mahoozi June 10, 2026, 3:27 a.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Sanam Mahoozi Iran’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that it is the responsibility of Persian Gulf countries to prevent U.S. strikes on Iran from their territories. Iran will not hesitate to defend itself by targeting the bases from where it is attacked, the ministry said in a statement published by state media. Qasim Nauman June 10, 2026, 12:37 a.m. ETJune 10, 2026 Qasim Nauman Jordanian air defenses intercepted five missiles launched from Iran toward the Azraq region, according to a military statement published by Jordan’s official news agency on Wednesday. The military said the debris from the interceptions caused no material damage or casualties. The Iranian military had said earlier that it fired missiles at U.S. military facilities in Azraq. The area is home to Jordan’s Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, which has been used for U.S. military operations in the region. The base was damaged in the early days of the war, according to satellite imagery. Eric Schmitt June 9, 2026, 10:59 p.m. ETJune 9, 2026 Eric SchmittReporting from Washington Iran launched multiple missiles and drones at U.S. bases around the Middle East early Wednesday, and nearly all were intercepted according to initial American assessments, a U.S. official said. There have been no reports of American casualties, and no reports as yet of damage to U.S. bases in the region from the Iranian attacks, the official said. Qasim Nauman June 9, 2026, 10:24 p.m. ETJune 9, 2026 Qasim Nauman The Kuwait Army says its air defenses are intercepting hostile targets. The statement from the military did not say if these were missiles or drones, or where they were launched from. Eric Schmitt June 9, 2026, 10:23 p.m. ETJune 9, 2026 Eric SchmittReporting from Washington The I.R.G.C.’s assertions that it conducted 21 attacks against U.S. bases in the region early Wednesday “are simply not true,” a U.S. official said. Farnaz Fassihi June 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m. ETJune 9, 2026 Farnaz Fassihi Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said in a statement that its naval forces had launched 21 attacks on U.S. bases in the region and shot down an American MQ-9 drone aircraft over the Iranian area of Jam. The I.R.G.C. statement said that Iran had attacked the Al Azraq American military base in Jordan with ballistic missiles. Eric Schmitt June 9, 2026, 10:02 p.m. ETJune 9, 2026 Eric SchmittReporting from Washington Bahrain’s interior ministry said it sounded sirens early Wednesday but the U.S. Central Command, which directs military operations for the region, declined to comment. A U.S. official said it was “an active situation.” Farnaz Fassihi June 9, 2026, 9:14 p.m. ETJune 9, 2026 Farnaz Fassihi Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said in a statement that it launched drone attacks on U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain in retaliation to earlier American attacks on several locations on the southern shores of Iran. The statement said that Americans “under fake premises” struck Jask, Sirak and Qeshm Island along the Persian Gulf Coast, and said a telecommunication tower in Jask and two water tanks in the area were destroyed. Nicholas Kulish Eric Schmitt June 9, 2026, 7:00 p.m. ETJune 9, 2026 Nicholas Kulish and Eric Schmitt A sea drone rescued the downed Apache’s 2-person crew. Here’s what to know. Image Three driverless boats create waves on the open water backed by land. A photo provided by Saronic Technologies showing the type of sea drone used to rescue two crew members from an Apache helicopter downed near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. Credit...Saronic Technologies In the latest sign that unmanned vehicles are an increasingly pivotal part of a modern military, a drone boat rescued the two-person crew from the U.S. Apache helicopter gunship that went down near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command said. It was the first U.S. rescue carried out by an autonomous surface vessel, remotely piloted by a human operator, the Central Command spokesman, Capt. Tim Hawkins, said on Tuesday. “The surface drone that assisted in last night’s rescue of the Apache crew off the coast of Oman was a U.S. Navy Corsair unmanned surface vessel operated by U.S. 5th Fleet’s Task Force 59,” Captain Hawkins said in a text message. “The task force began fielding these drones in theater in late March.” The 24-foot-long Corsair, built by the company Saronic Technologies, runs on diesel fuel and can travel at speeds of up to 35 knots. The vessel can carry a load of up to 1,000 pounds and has a range of more than 1,000 nautical miles. The Corsair was used for the mission because of “proximity and capability factors,” according to Captain Hawkins. The vessel carried the Apache’s pilot and gunner to another location, where they were picked up by a helicopter to complete the rescue. The AH-64 Apache gunship, one of the most fearsome types of aircraft operating in the region, went down near the coast of Oman while on patrol. A U.S. official later said that the helicopter had been brought down by a one-way Iranian attack drone. Iran’s state broadcaster, citing an unnamed military official, warned against “renewed enemy aggression under the pretext of the crash of a military helicopter,” suggesting that Tehran was not responsible. Unmanned attack drones, including Iran’s Shaheds, have received most of the attention in discussions of unmanned aerial vehicles during the war with the United States and Israel, but drones operate on land and sea as well. In Ukraine, the military is using unmanned ground vehicles for medical evacuations, moving supplies and, increasingly, to conduct attacks in its war with Russia. Ukraine has also made extensive use of sea drones, attacking Russian ships in the Black Sea and even using autonomous surface vessels armed with antiaircraft missiles to shoot down warplanes. The United States Navy is not new to sea drones. As far back as 2022, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command announced that it had operated unmanned surface vessels in the vicinity of Bahrain, where it is headquartered, for 25,000 hours. The command’s Task Force 59 commissioned a new group in January 2024 to work on unmanned systems. Saronic has a $392 million production contract with the U.S. Navy for autonomous surface vessels. Headquartered in Austin, Tex., the company was founded less than four years ago, in September 2022. Saronic already has more than 1,300 employees. The company’s chief executive, Dino Mavrookas, was a member of the Navy SEALs for 11 years and was on eight combat tours, according to Saronic’s website. Show more Farnaz Fassihi June 9, 2026, 6:43 p.m. ETJune 9, 2026 Farnaz Fassihi Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said Iran’s armed forces would “leave no attack or threat unanswered.” The comment came in a social media post that followed a series of U.S. airstrikes on Iranian military and naval bases in the country’s south, along the Persian Gulf. Araghchi said the United States was testing Iran’s determination and warned, “Leave our region if you want to be safe.” Image Credit...Elke Scholiers/Getty Images Farnaz Fassihi June 9, 2026, 6:25 p.m. ETJune 9, 2026 Farnaz Fassihi American airstrikes targeted military and naval bases, radar facilities and artillery batteries in five locations on the southern shores of Iran in the early hours of Wednesday morning local time, according to two Iranian officials who asked their names not be published because they were discussing military matters. The officials said the targets appeared to include naval bases in Sirik and Jask, air defenses in Bandar Abbas, and missile batteries in Qeshm. Residents of the area reported hearing several explosions, Iran’s state television reported. Farnaz Fassihi June 9, 2026, 5:38 p.m. ETJune 9, 2026 Farnaz Fassihi Iran’s state television said that explosions and air defense sirens were heard in several locations along Iran’s Persian Gulf coast, including in Bandar Abbas, Qeshm and Sirik. The reports said Sirik and Qeshm were attacked several times, but no further details were provided. James C. McKinley Jr. June 9, 2026, 5:24 p.m. ETJune 9, 2026 James C. McKinley Jr. The U.S. Central Command said American forces launched strikes on Iran at 5 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday in response to the downing of an Apache helicopter. “The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression,” the military said in a statement on social media. James C. McKinley Jr. June 9, 2026, 5:04 p.m. ETJune 9, 2026 James C. McKinley Jr. Iran’s state broadcaster, citing an unnamed military official, reported that there had been no aerial military operations conducted near the Strait of Hormuz in the last 24 hours, suggesting Tehran was not responsible for the downing of a U.S. Apache helicopter on Monday. The unnamed official warned that if there was “renewed enemy aggression under the pretext of the crash of a military helicopter,” it would be met with a decisive response. Share full article More on the Fighting in the Middle East Trump’s ‘Secret Mission’ Widely Disclosed: A U.S. military official said the president’s seemingly dramatic announcement referred to a previously reported effort to shepherd commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. 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