Officials in Iran say at least 11 people are dead, and dozens more wounded, after the U.S. launched a wave of attacks across southern Iran. Among the alleged victims are five people killed when a U.S. bomb fell on a house during a wedding celebration in the southern county of Sirik. One child was among the dead. Footage published by the Iranian Red Crescent Society appears to show several other children being treated for injuries. Hours later, Iran said that it launched missiles on an American military base in Jordan and U.S. military equipment warehouses in Iraq. Kuwait says an Iranian drone attack caused a fire in a residential complex in the capital. The strikes come just days after U.S. and Iran exchanged fire for the first time in a month. In a social media post, President Trump claimed that the strikes were in retaliation for Iran laying sea mines near the Strait of Hormuz. This is Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf: “If the enemy intends to prevent us from exporting oil from the Persian Gulf, know that no one will export oil from the Persian Gulf. This has been and will be our decision, and they will certainly pay the price for this military blockade they have implemented. And the Americans, in particular, will feel this with all their being.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged continued support for Iran in its war with the United States, urging Russian cooperation in countering U.S. sanctions. Putin’s pledge came during a joint appearance with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Kyrgyzstan. Since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran in February, Russia has provided Iran with military hardware including drone components, as well as intelligence, including on U.S. assets in the Persian Gulf. Meanwhile, European officials are blasting the Trump administration for inviting Russia’s finance minister to North Carolina for a summit of central bankers from the Group of 20 nations. It was the first time a Russian official participated in a G20 meeting since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine over four years ago, and came after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened to impose secondary sanctions against Iran’s trading partners.