US–Iran War: Tenth Night of Strikes as Iran Turns Off the Taps
Vehicles pass a monument to the
clenched fist of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Islamic Revolution Square,
Tehran, July 19. Photo: AP
The US carried out its tenth consecutive night of strikes on Iran, hitting targets around Bandar Abbas, Qeshm Island, Chabahar and Konarak. Iran escalated sharply: it claimed attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz — forcing at least one crew to abandon ship — and struck US interests across the region, including Kuwait. Most pointedly, Iran turned water into a weapon, hitting desalination plants in Kuwait, Bahrain and the Emirates — Gulf states that draw 90–99% of their drinking water from the sea. The US in turn struck an Iranian desalination plant at Jask serving 20–30 villages in Hormozgan.
The Pentagon acknowledged nearly 100 US service members have been injured over the past two weeks, on top of the three killed since Friday; Democrats accuse Trump of having “lost control” of the war. With Hormuz largely closed since February, the IEA now warns of a global energy crisis within weeks if the strait does not reopen — Asia, which receives 80–90% of its oil this way, is most exposed, though Chinese stockpiles of over a billion barrels have cushioned the price shock so far.
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