Iran…Trump…Conflict/War…Evening… June 10, 2026…Frustrated…Trump goes back to Attacks….

President Trump told a Fox News reporter on Wednesday night that the United States fired 49 Tomahawk missiles at targets inside Iran, in addition to bombing with fighter jets. Mr. Trump added the attack would be paused shortly but would resume on Thursday night if Iran did not capitulate in negotiations with the United States.

Iran said it had responded with two waves of attacks on targets at U.S. airbases in Kuwait and Bahrain, but there was no immediate confirmation of that. Iran also said that the Strait of Hormuz was now closed to any type of vessel, including oil tankers and commercial ships. U.S. Central Command denied that the strait was closed.

The latest exchange of fire followed U.S. strikes roughly 24 hours earlier, in which the American military said that its jets had hit multiple Iranian targets in response to the downing of an American Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. Iran responded with its own strikes on U.S. targets in the region.

On Wednesday, Mr. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made clear that the new strikes were meant not as retaliation for a particular military action but to pressure Tehran to agree to peace on terms agreeable to Mr. Trump.

“If we need to negotiate with bombs, we’ll negotiate with bombs,” Mr. Hegseth told reporters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. “And we’re very good at it. Nobody better in the world.”

The repeated U.S. strikes appear to contradict Mr. Trump’s repeated reassurances that a peace deal with Iran is imminent. They also further undercut the credibility of the cease-fire declared two months ago, after which U.S. and Iranian forces traded occasional attacks and issued almost daily contradictory claims about blame, the fighting and peace talks.

The claimed cease-fire “is more like a lesser-fire, as we have seen with the escalating attacks and rhetoric over the last 48 hours,” António Guterres, the United Nations’ secretary general, said on Wednesday.

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• Economic effect: U.S. consumer prices rose 4.2 percent in May compared with a year earlier, the highest pace of inflation since April 2023, amid the stalemate over Iran. Oil prices also jumped on Wednesday. Read more ›

• Iran water tanks: An analysis of satellite images and photographs suggests that a precision U.S. attack early Wednesday hit drinking-water facilities in Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province, where temperatures have exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit this week. A local official said water service had been cut off for some 12 hours to about 20,000 people. U.S. Central Command did not respond to a request for comment on the report of the strike. Read more ›

• Not-so-secret mission: Mr. Trump described a clandestine mission that involved spiriting millions of barrels of oil right through the Strait of Hormuz under Iran’s nose. But a U.S. military official said that the comments, made from the Oval Office and broadcast on live television, referred to a previously reported U.S. effort to steer commercial vessels through the strait. Read more 

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The Guardian…

• The US launched another assault on Iran, sending airstrikes at “multiple targets” at about 5:15 p.m. EST Wednesday, marking the second consecutive day of strikes that began in response to a military helicopter crash off the strait of Hormuz that Donald Trump said Iran had downed. Today’s strikes come after both Donald Trump and US defence secretary Pete Hegseth said that the US military was planning on striking Iran again. “We hit them hard yesterday and we’re going to hit them again hard today,” Trump said. Iranian state media reported hearing explosions in the port cities of Gorgan and Bandar Abbas.

• Yesterday’s strikes hit two water reservoirs in southern Iran, leaving 20,000 without drinking water. Iran on Wednesday said the attack on the reservoirs were a “calculated war crime”, with a spokesman for Iran’s ministry of foreign affairs accusing the US of “deliberately targeting the lifeblood of the Iranian people”. The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said that threats to target infrastructure are not a show of strength but “a sign of desperation”, adding that Iran will stand firm against any pressure or threat.

• Even as he spoke of the US launching more airstrikes on Iran, Trump maintained that the US was “really close” to reaching a deal. Hegseth echoed Trump’s statement, but told reporters “if we need to negotiate with bombs, we’ll negotiate with bombs”.

• Trump also announced on Wednesday that the US military carried out ‘secret mission’ to help move more than 100 million barrels of oil through the strait of Hormuz. Hegseth said this announcement proved the US blockade to be “ironclad” and that ultimately, the US controls the waterway.

• In more Hormuz news, US Central Command (Centcom) posted on X that US forces fired upon a Palau-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman that was “attempting to transport oil from Iran” in violation of the US blockade. According to Centcom, US forces have disabled a total of eight non-compliant vessels since the blockade began on 13 April, in addition to redirecting 134 ships that had complied and allowing 42 humanitarian aid vessels to pass.

• Israeli military operations have continued in Lebanon, with the the Lebanese health ministry on Wednesday updating the total death toll to3,696 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since the fighting began on 2 March. In addition to the fatalities, 11,413 people have been injured, the health ministry said.

• United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has warned of the risk of return to “full war” in the Middle East after Iran and the United States traded strikes. “We should not minimise the risks of a lesser fire becoming full fire, or in another word – full war,” secretary-general Guterres said at a meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in the region….

ISW…Iran Update Special Report, June 10, 2026

1. Iran is using force, combined with the threat to suspend US-Iran negotiations, to try to deter the United States from conducting further attacks on Iran that would likely make it more difficult for Iran to achieve its strategic objectives, which include solidifying control over the Strait of Hormuz and preserving the Axis of Resistance. US forces struck around 20 targets in southern Iran, including air defenses, ground control stations, and surveillance radar sites, on June 9 in response to Iran’s drone attack that downed a US Apache helicopter off the coast of Oman on June 8.
2. Iran has repeatedly used calibrated force as part of a series of campaigns to try to achieve its strategic objectives. Iran launched missiles at Israel on June 7 to pressure US President Donald Trump to convince Israel to halt its operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon. These attacks were part of a broader Iranian effort to preserve Hezbollah, which it views as a key pillar of its deterrence strategy vis-a-vis Israel and the United States.
3. ISW-CTP is monitoring reports of additional US strikes in Iran as of 5:36 PM ET on June 10. ISW-CTP will provide more details on the US strikes in its June 11 morning thread and evening update.