On August 9, Pezeshkian named Mohsen Rezaei SNSC secretary after Mojtaba Khamenei's order. Anadolu reported Jubail gas facilities hit; Houthis claimed a Jizan Aramco fire.
Houthi missiles and drones hit Yemeni army camps in Marib and Hadramawt, with tolls of 30 to 58 reported, as a Red Sea embargo on Saudi ports squeezes shipping.
On August 7 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed a joint defense agreement treating an attack on one as an attack on all, calling it purely defensive and open to others.
On July 7, the Qatari LNG tanker Al Rekayyat was hit near Hormuz with an engine-room fire. A Saudi-flagged tanker was also damaged as the June MOU's safe-passage promise frayed.
Iranian state TV IRINN broadcast a map showing eight energy facilities across Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Kuwait that will be targeted if the ceasefire collapses. The list includes Abqaiq, the world's largest crude stabilization plant processing 7% of global supply. Analysts warn a simultaneous strike would cause an unprecedented energy shock.
Trump considers limited strikes on Iran, 158 Iranian naval vessels destroyed, and Israel-Lebanon negotiations begin in Washington as the Strait of Hormuz blockade reshapes global oil markets.
Iranian missile and drone strikes struck critical infrastructure across the Gulf on Day 35 of the US-Israeli war on Iran, hitting a Kuwait desalination plant, the Al-Ahmadi oil refinery, and cloud data centers in the UAE and Bahrain.
Analysis of the Houthi movement's calculated entry into the US-Iran conflict, their complex relationship with Tehran, and the strategic calculus behind their restraint on Red Sea shipping — so far.
Iranian missile and drone attack damages critical US surveillance and refueling aircraft in Saudi Arabia as coalition faces mounting equipment losses
Iranian strikes continue against Gulf nations as commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz faces severe disruptions, threatening global energy supplies
Yemen continues facing severe humanitarian crisis despite relative calm in fighting
Drone and missile attacks on oil facilities raise fears of wider regional war