In addition ?
With Israel coming down on Hamas and Hezbollah?
Iran is turning to the Houthi’s to extend their attacks across the Middle East…
Iran keeps firing missiles at US assets in the Gulf no matter how much the media says American strikes have destroyed….
Gas/Oil prices keep rising in the US and Europe as Iran keeps limiting the amount of oil getting thru the Strait of Hormuz….
AP….
Iran spent decades building up armed groups on Israel’s frontiers that suffered major losses in the wars following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack out of Gaza. Israel battered the Palestinian militants as well as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which had been Iran’s most powerful ally.
Regional officials and experts say Iran is now using the Iraqi militias and the Houthis to threaten Saudi Arabia and other American allies in the Gulf in order to drive up the costs of the war launched by the U.S. and Israel in February.
It is a risky strategy. A wave of Houthi attacks on Saudi oil facilities on Tuesday threatened to reignite full-scale war with the kingdom. Iraq has ordered militias to disarm by the end of this month, though powerful Iran-backed groups have refused to do so. A new American effort to economically isolate Iran could spark further escalation…..
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ISW.…Iran Update, September 9, 2026
- Iran has launched a concerted effort in recent days to more aggressively target US naval forces, likely to degrade the United States’ willingness and ability to continue enforcing the US naval blockade on Iranian ports.
- US officials warned that Iran may be using “more sophisticated weapons” to target US vessels in recent days.
- Iran may be relying upon targeting assistance from Russia or the People’s Republic of China to support Iranian attacks on US warships and vessels. US officials raised their concerns to the Wall Street Journal that Russian or PRC targeting assistance enabled Iran’s recent attacks against US vessels.
- Iran appears to be targeting anchored and docked commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, likely to deter the United States from conducting further strikes on Iranian oil tankers.
- Iranian targeting constraints may be contributing to Iran’s decision to target stationary vessels. ISW-CTP recently assessed on September 4 that Iran is struggling to fix moving commercial-vessel targets, given that Iran has not increased attacks on moving civilian vessels in the Strait of Hormuz despite the reported increase in the flow of traffic through the waterway.
- The Iranian regime is framing its retaliation against vessels that do not comply with Iranian policies in the Strait of Hormuz as its own Iranian enforcement of a “sanctions regime” in order to legitimize illegal Iranian activities against commercial vessels.
- Iran used cluster munition ballistic missiles in an attack on US forces in Jordan on September 9, which indicates that Iran sought to inflict greater damage or casualties to impose further human and political costs on the United States.
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