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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 12 July 2026
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press:
“The U.S. military has struck again in Iran. It’s the third round of airstrikes we’ve seen in recent days as an interim deal to end the Iran war looks more in danger than ever before. Iran had attacked a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, a container ship. It caught fire and the crew abandoned it. The U.S. immediately launched these airstrike afterwards targeting some 140 sites in Iran. This is the highest number of strikes that we’ve seen over these days of airstrikes. Now in response, Iran apparently retaliated with strikes targeting Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates today. Now Iran has made a lot of other claims as well. Everything seems pretty scattered. What is known is that missile alert sirens went off in those three countries. It remains unclear if any damage has been done. All this is coming as there had been hopes. That negotiations would resume over trying to reach a permanent end to the Iran War. But the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, through which about a fifth of all natural gas and crude oil once passed in peacetime, is central to the ongoing tensions. Now, Iran insists it must have sole control over the strait and be able to charge vessels going through it. That would upend decades of world belief that this is an international waterway despite it being in the territorial waters of both Iran and Oman.”
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STORYLINE:
The United States attacked Iran early Sunday morning over an Iranian strike on a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz that set the container ship ablaze and forced its crew to abandon it.

Iran apparently responded with attacks targeting Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

The strait has become the key sticking point in any further negotiations between Iran and the United States to find a permanent end to the war that began back on Feb. 28.

The new crossfire in the Persian Gulf comes after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested an interim deal and ceasefire in the Iran war was “over.”

The U.S. military’s Central Command said it hit some 140 targets in the strikes, far more than the last two round. 

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