US army raids pounded Iranian military sites in the strip overlooking the Strait of Hormuz for the tenth night, while Tehran responded with regional attacks, amid indications of faltering diplomatic movement.

The raids on the tenth night lasted five hours, targeting 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 that about a hundred soldiers had 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', affirming that operations are not over. Trump's threat came after the Wall Street Journal quoted Israeli and US officials saying 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 continued mediation, while Israeli sources reported that Trump rejected a ten-day truce and demanded a longer ceasefire and prior understandings on freedom of navigation.

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