President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.
Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries.
The U.S. and Iran have nonetheless continued to exchange strikes, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz as the primary flashpoint. Trump said in August that the U.S. would launch a "crushing economic operation" to force Tehran into submission.
Iran's IRGC warns oil tankers in Kuwaiti, Bahrani waters be evacuated
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a warning that all oil tankers in Kuwaiti and Bahrani waters be evacuated after an alleged U.S. attack on an Iranian oil tanker.
"In light of the atrocities committed by the terrorist US army in targeting several tankers of the Islamic Republic of Iran, we warn all tanker crews in the Kuwaiti and Bahraini ports, which host these terrorists and are partners in their atrocities, to immediately abandon their vessels, whether at anchor or at the ports, because they will be targeted," Iran's IRGC Navy said in a statement Tuesday.
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Iran state media says US attacked oil tanker near Kharg Island
Iran state media claimed the U.S. attacked an oil tanker near Kharg Island on Tuesday.
According to a report from Tasnim News Agency, a small Iranian oil tanker, located 4 nautical miles from Kharg Island, was the target of a missile attack by the U.S. military.
The tanker was struck by a projectile fired by U.S. forces in the vicinity of Kharg Island's anchorage, Tasnim said.
Tasnim said there are no reported casualties.
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Iran says it seized American underwater drone
Iran claimed it seized an American underwater drone that the U.S. said had malfunctioned.
An underwater drone operated by the U.S. malfunctioned “more than a day ago” when it was surveying waters in the Middle East, a U.S. official told ABC News.
The same U.S. official said that the drone was "an older model that neither collected sensitive data nor carried any classified sonar or radar equipment."
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Trump admin targets Iran's aviation sector in effort to strangle Iranian economy
The Trump administration is sanctioning 36 entities that it says support Iran's aviation sector, which the administration says helps the Iranian regime "move weapons, personnel, and illicit cargo" as well as companies that they acted as intermediaries for Iran.
This is the most recent in a string of actions targeting the Iranian economy as the Trump administration shifts their war strategy to financial strangulation.
"Let this be a warning to anyone doing business with Iran’s remaining airlines, all of which we sanctioned today: You are at risk of being cut off from the global financial system," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement.
President Donald Trump participates in a Steel Across America event featuring a 21-foot steel beam recovered from the World Trade Centre South Tower, on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, September 8, 2026.
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The Treasury Department sanctioned companies that facilitated the business of the already sanctioned Mahan Air as well as "three Iran-related aviation authorizations " that it said allowed for overflights and "on-U.S. airlines to fly U.S.-origin or U.S.-controlled commercial aircraft into Iran."
"Any foreign firm or individual enabling sanctioned Iranian airlines—including through aircraft transfers, cargo services, or general sales agent support—will face serious consequences for supporting the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism," the Treasury Department said in a statement.
