Iran accuses US of striking critical infrastructure as war intensifies
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- US forces carried a seventh consecutive night of strikes on Iran, destroying a seawater pumping station and power transformer at the Bunji desalination plant in Jask and cutting water to 10,000 people across 20 villages, per the Hormozgan Water and Wastewater Company.
- Iran retaliated with drones and missiles against US-allied Gulf states, hitting two Kuwaiti power and water desalination plants and wounding several firefighters; Bahrain activated air raid sirens and Jordan intercepted 10 Iranian ballistic missiles.
- The IRGC claimed it struck a US military fuel pier at Kuwait's al-Ahmadi port, a warplane assembly site at Bahrain's Sheikh Isa Air Base, and a US base in Azraq, Jordan, asserting two American fighter jets were destroyed.
- CENTCOM said its overnight strikes targeted "surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities" across Iran.
- Trump declared at the NATO summit in Ankara 10 days ago that the June MOU with Tehran was "over" after Iranian attacks on tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, reimposing a naval blockade on Iranian ports and revoking the sanctions waiver on Iranian oil exports.
- The interim deal's framework leaves Iran claiming rights to control Strait of Hormuz traffic, while Trump demands the waterway stay open to all shipping — a standoff now enforced by a US Navy blockade of Iranian vessels.
- Trump is pressing to lower oil and gas prices before November midterms, but the source notes his escalating attacks have failed to bring Tehran back to negotiations.
Why it matters: The war has broadened from a bilateral US-Iran fight into reciprocal strikes on civilian water and power facilities across the Gulf, with the source itself flagging both sides' attacks on civilian infrastructure as war crimes under international humanitarian law. Trump's escalation, launched to ease fuel prices before midterms, has not pulled Tehran back to talks while pulling Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan directly into the crossfire alongside their US bases.
