🇮🇷🇴🇲 - UKMTO confirms Iran is attacking commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz again. A vessel is currently on fire.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡- Kuwaiti missiles impact in Bandar Imam Khomeini, southwest Iran, yet again.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Renewed airstrikes on Khormuj, Bushehr Province, southern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- US airstrikes on Sirik, southern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- A loud explosion was heard in Bandar-e-Jask, southern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Fars News, several minutes after Rerum Novarum, confirmed attacks on Bandar-e-Jask.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- US struck near the rural village of Karpan and the city of Sirik, southern Iran, simultaneously.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- US airstrike on an open area near Tahroei, east of Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

🇰🇼🇮🇷⚡- Kuwaiti missiles strike Dasht-e Azedagan, Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Image circulating allegedly shows scenes from Konarak, southeast Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Another image allegedly showing the aftermath of the US attacks on Sirik, southeast Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- US airstrikes on Chabahar, southeast Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) successfully completed the ninth consecutive evening of strikes against Iran, July 19, at 10 p.m. ET.

CENTCOM assets targeted Iranian military command centers, air defense and coastal surveillance sites, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and communications networks to further diminish Iran's ability to attack commercial vessels and civilian mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

The U.S. military is holding Iran accountable at the Commander in Chief's direction. CENTCOM forces remain highly vigilant, focused, lethal, and ready.” - US Central Command.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- "A U.S. Coast Guard cutter shadowed a Chinese ship bound for the Arctic this week — the first time this year that Chinese vessels have appeared in areas the U.S. has designated as within its extended sphere of interest, the Coast Guard said late Friday.

The Chinese research ship Xue Long transited north through the U.S. “exclusive economic zone” — known as the EEZ — and over the extended North American continental shelf in the Bering Sea.

The Coast Guard said the ship had the “declared destination” of the Arctic, where it would rendezvous with a second Chinese ship, Xue Long 2, another research vessel." - Stars and Stripes, a US military newspaper.

🇺🇸🇧🇭🇮🇷⚡️- Approximately 1 hour ago sirens were activated in Bahrain.

🇺🇸🇰🇼🇮🇷⚡️- Sirens have now been activated in Kuwait.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "If they had told me 3 years ago that we would control 70% of Gaza, I wouldn't have believed it. There will be Jewish settler settlements throughout Gaza and we will encourage the expulsion of the Palestinians. Gaza is ours" - Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli Minister of National Security.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- US airstrikes on Bushehr, southern Iran.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold a security cabinet meeting this afternoon.

🇬🇧⚡️- Keir Starmer has now formally resigned as Prime Minister.

🇵🇸⚡- Khalil al-Hayya has been elected as the new Head of Hamas's Political Bureau, formally succeeding Yahya Sinwar.

Al-Hayya's political background is closely tied to Hamas's original ideological roots, Sunni extremism and the broader Muslim Brotherhood movement. For instance, like his predecessor Sinwar, he initially opposed former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and supported the Sunni far-right groups in Idlib—today in power in Damascus—until Iranian mediation helped restore ties between Hamas and Syria in 2022.