Key developments
• Iran warns US: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened to retaliate after the US carried out what it described as “self-defense strikes” on Iranian missile launch sites and boats around the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC also claimed that 25 vessels, including oil tankers, transited Hormuz during the “last day and night.”
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