Iran's Mehr news agency reports the United States has struck seven targets on Iran's southern coast. Separately, the IRGC Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters announced the Strait of Hormuz is closed to all vessels, including oil tankers, and threatened to attack any vessel attempting to transit. The reports are unverified by independent sources.
Just after 22:49 UTC on June 10, The Zioneer reported that the IRGC's Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters announced a total closure of the Strait of Hormuz to all vessels including oil tankers, citing 'insecurity in the region' and threatening to attack any vessel attempting to transit. That announcement is the latest development in an escalating sequence: earlier this evening, the Iranian Mehr news agency reported that US forces had struck seven coastal points in southern Iran, a claim that Iranian sources subsequently confirmed in Telegram posts (as The Zioneer noted at 17:07 UTC). The closure appears to be tied to those strikes, though the IRGC statement did not explicitly link the two.
The thread began with US strikes on southern Iran that US officials described as 'defensive responses' to Iranian aggression. At 17:07 UTC The Zioneer reported an initial US confirmation of strikes on air defenses, radar, and drone command-and-control units, followed by reports of explosions in Bandar Abbas, Minab, Qeshm, and other coastal cities. The scope grew rapidly: a US official told Axios the campaign involved 'hundreds of targets' and was expected to last hours. Iranian media then reported a further wave specifically targeting coastal sites, culminating in the Mehr report of seven specific coastal points — a figure that Iranian sources later corroborated, moving the story from unverified to sourced-confirmed.
As The Zioneer reported on June 9, Tehran had signaled potential retaliation against US assets near the Strait of Hormuz following earlier US strikes on IRGC naval infrastructure. Yesterday (June 10) an Iranian-linked channel warned that American targets are 'all around the Strait of Hormuz.' Separate Iranian media claims of cruise-missile and drone launches toward US warships — reported by The Zioneer at 22:34 UTC — remain unverified, as does the new Mehr report's specific claim of seven coastal strikes.
The central open question is whether the strait closure is a declaratory act of escalation or a prelude to kinetic action. The IRGC has not provided evidence that vessels have been stopped or fired upon, and no independent confirmation of the seven coastal strikes has emerged. The US military has not confirmed or denied striking coastal points tonight.
11 developments
- StrongIran fires warning shots at US vessels in Strait of Hormuz
- ConfirmedUS targets around the Strait of Hormuz exposed to potential threats
- StrongArabic security source: US warships within 150–250 km of Iran's Chabahar coast
- DevelopingIran-linked channels report fresh exchange of fire with US Navy in Strait of Hormuz
Source and signal
- Internal intake