The United States launched a new wave of bombing in response to the attack by Iranian forces against a ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

In reaction to the US attacks, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that the trade route was closed until further notice and launched an offensive against US and allied bases in the region.

The Revolutionary Guard claimed to have hit a US base in Jordan, while the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain responded to missiles and drones launched from Iran.

This follows incidents earlier this week in which three oil tankers were attacked, triggering an exchange of attacks between the US and Iran.

On Sunday morning, state media reported that Iran had closed the strait until further notice after firing a naval cruise missile at a ship attempting to navigate an unauthorized route.

The Revolutionary Guard said the ship was “hit by warning shots and stopped” after ignoring repeated instructions, according to a statement carried by the state news agency.

He also warned that any US “aggression” as a result of the closure would receive a “strong” response and that other US bases in the region would be targeted.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who is also the country's chief negotiator with the US, wrote in X that the “era of unilateral agreements is OVER.”

"We already told you: keep your word or pay the price. Reality knocks at the door," he added.

Launching a third round of attacks this week, US Central Command (Centcom) said the Revolutionary Guard “brazenly attacked” a Cypriot-flagged ship in the Strait of Hormuz.

Centcom stated that the MV GFS Galaxy “could not continue its voyage” as a result of severe damage to the engine room and added that a crew member had been lost.

For its part, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Office (UKMTO) stated that military authorities had informed it that the ship's crew had been forced to abandon ship and were in a lifeboat.

“Iran was given yet another opportunity to demonstrate its compliance with the Memorandum of Understanding after being held responsible for previous attacks on merchant ships, but it has failed again,” Centcom wrote in a statement published on X.

According to the statement, the US strikes hit 140 Iranian military targets, including missile and drone bases, communications networks and coastal surveillance posts.

The statement was shared by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who wrote: "Iran made a bad decision. Now it will pay for it."

The IRGC claimed that the US had attacked “several coastal bases and telecommunications towers on the southern coast.”

In response, Iran declared that its “first phase” of retaliation included attacks on the Prince Hassan air base in Jordan, and claimed to have destroyed the base's command and control center as well as the MQ9 drone hangars.

Recap

Earlier this week, three oil tankers were attacked while attempting to traverse a US-recommended route through Omani waters. Iran has repeatedly stated that the only “safe” route is a different one that passes through its waters.

The incident sparked a series of US attacks in which 17 people were killed and 115 wounded, according to official Iranian sources. Iran responded with attacks against US allies in the Gulf.

This exchange escalated tensions, and US President Donald Trump declared that the Iranian attacks meant the end of the ceasefire.

For his part, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused the US of violating the agreement.

However, the US president stated that negotiations would continue and that mediators were trying to reactivate the process. US media reported that Iran told US authorities that the attacks on the oil tankers were a mistake and blamed an internal rebel group.

U.S. officials say they have conveyed, through mediators, a demand that Iran publicly declare that the Strait of Hormuz — a vital international shipping route — is open and agree to stop firing on commercial ships.

The closure follows Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mokhtaba Khamenei's call for revenge in his first public statement since his father's funeral.

His father and predecessor, Ali Khamenei, was killed in an airstrike on February 28, the first day of the US-Israel war against Iran, and was buried on Friday in his hometown of Mashhad.

Through a statement read on state television, the new ayatollah stated that revenge was the “will of the nation.”

“We pledge to avenge the blood of the martyred leader and all the martyrs of these two wars at the hands of the criminal and disgraced murderers,” he was quoted as saying.

"The matter does not depend on my personal existence or that of other leaders. Whether we are present or not, it will be carried out."

Many Iranians who participated in the funeral ceremonies in recent days carried signs calling for the death of US President Trump, who on Saturday warned that any such action would result in the US “decimating and destroying all areas” of Iran in response.

The Wall Street Journal and other US media reported this week that Israel had shared intelligence with Washington that Iran had recently devised a plan to assassinate the US president.

However, Trump denied that Tehran had drawn up a new plan or that Israel was the source of such information. In an interview with the New York Post, the president stated that he had been “number one for a long time (on the list of targets to be eliminated from Iran).”