For the tenth night, US army strikes pounded Iranian military positions in the belt overlooking the Strait of Hormuz, while Tehran responded with regional attacks, amid signs of faltering diplomatic moves.

The tenth night's strikes lasted five hours and targeted command centers, naval capabilities, missile and drone platforms, and air defenses near the Strait of Hormuz, including a ballistic missile base under the mountains of Shiraz in southern Iran.

In response, Tehran announced attacks on Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan, while the Pentagon announced about a hundred military personnel have been injured since the resumption of fighting.

In 'Hormuz,' a tanker was attacked off the Omani coast and its crew had to abandon it, while transit traffic dropped to extremely low levels.

US President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric, threatening to bomb the fortified 'Mount Axe' site near Natanz in Isfahan 'very soon,' asserting that the operations are not over. Trump's threat came after the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Israeli and US officials, that Tehran had transferred thousands of centrifuges to tunnels at the sensitive site.

In Islamabad, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, upon receiving Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni, called for restraint, affirming the continuation of mediation, while Israeli sources reported that Trump rejected a ten-day ceasefire and demanded a longer halt and prior understandings on freedom of navigation.

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