Iran launches fresh attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries while Israel expands airstrikes on Tehran and Lebanon and the USA intensifies its campaign with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promising the most intense strikes and General Dan Caine saying US forces have hit more than 5,000 targets.The Pentagon describes the effort as Operation Epic Fury and reports lethal airstrikes, ship attacks and sabotage that have produced multiple US military deaths while Newsweek reports Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of senior officials have been killed.President Donald Trump, after meeting House Republicans at his Doral resort and boarding Air Force One, tells CBS the campaign is “very complete” and posts on Truth Social that the USA will “hit Iran twenty times harder” if Tehran blocks oil flow through the Strait of Hormuz, as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vows to stop exports and more than 200 tankers and LNG carriers wait.Officials report at least 1,230 killed in
Iran, 397 in Lebanon, 11 in
Israel and seven US service members killed,
Amin Nasser of
Aramco says tankers are being rerouted via the East-West pipeline to Yanbu, an airstrike in Iraq killed five militiamen and legal scholars
Matthew Waxman and
Oona Hathaway warn the scale of operations tests the War Powers Resolution.