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The US says its attacks aim to "further degrade Iranian military capabilities", as fighting continued for the sixth day in a row.

The ⁠spokesperson for Iran's top military command said Tehran would not ‌allow ⁠US interference in the Strait of Hormuz, calling it a ‌red line.

The family ⁠of British ​couple Craig and Lindsay Foreman, who are serving a 10-year ​prison sentence in Iran on espionage charges that they deny, said on Wednesday that a judge had extended Craig Foreman's ​sentence ‌by two years for speaking to the ⁠media. The couple were arrested in 2025 while travelling through Iran by motorcycle ‌as part of a round-the-world journey. Britain has described ⁠their original sentences as "totally unjustifiable".

A serious escalation is occurring in the fighting between the US and Iran. Overnight and into this morning, the American military targeted sites across the Islamic Republic – while Iran fired ballistic missiles at US airbases in Jordan and Bahrain. There has been an escalation in the war of words too: President Donald Trump vowed to reinstate an American blockade of Iranian ports and charge ships for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Details and analysis by Scott Lucas, professor of US and international politics at the Clinton Institute of University College Dublin.

President Donald Trump reimposed a US naval blockade on Iranian ports on Monday and vowed hefty fees for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, as Tehran mockingly pledged to charge a lower rate for passage through the strategic waterway. FRANCE 24's Jennie Shin speaks with Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Former State Department Middle East Analyst.