The United States has carried out an eighth consecutive night of strikes against Iran, escalating a conflict that reignited after an interim ceasefire collapsed last week. US Central Command said the raids, ordered by President Donald Trump, targeted Iranian coastal surveillance and air defence facilities and were intended to curb Iran's ability to threaten shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and to punish the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for an attack that killed two US personnel in Jordan.

Central Command said the two service members died on Friday, with a third reported missing, taking the US military death toll since the war began to 16, alongside more than 420 wounded. Iran retaliated with drone strikes on US assets at bases in Kuwait and also targeted Saudi Arabia and Jordan, while Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, dismissed Trump's word as "worthless" and warned of further consequences; his current whereabouts are unknown. The war, which began in late February when the US and Israel struck Iran's nuclear and missile capabilities, has continued to disrupt energy supplies and stoke fears of global inflation.