U.S.-Iran War Updates: Vance "extremely skeptical" U.S. strike hit wedding party, says he wouldn't call conflict a war

Israel's military says it has taken "operational control" of the strategic Ali Taher ridge area in southern Lebanon, the site of sporadic clashes between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants in recent weeks. It's where Hezbollah is believed to have an extensive underground military facility.

The military said troops had cleared Hezbollah fighters from two underground routes, killing some while others fled. It said operations were ongoing.

There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah.

The Ali Taher hill overlooks several villages as well as main roads leading to the city of Nabatiyeh. Losing control of it would disrupt Hezbollah's presence and supply lines in the area.

Israeli Defense Minister Elad Malka said, "The (military) will now complete the neutralization of the tunnels and deploy tactically to hold the ridge and prevent the enemy from re-establishing a foothold in the area."

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Jordan, a staunch U.S. ally that hosts American forces in the Mideast, has paid a price for its relationship with Washington. The kingdom's military bases have become a target of repeated Iranian strikes.

Hundreds of drone and missile attacks have added to other strains on Jordan that include a slumping economy and volatility in the neighboring West Bank, where Israeli settlers have ramped up attacks on Palestinians.

Despite the risk of more strikes, Jordanian leaders say they are committed to maintaining the relationship after decades of courting deeper security ties with American officials and offering to be a reliable partner with the West in a region rocked by conflict. Analysts say the alliance offers Jordan a way to guard against Iran's attempts to destabilize its neighbors.

King Abdullah II of Jordan seemed to acknowledge the need for such alliances last year when he warned that destabilization fueled by the COVID-19 crisis, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and multiple Israeli military campaigns in the Middle East could trigger chaos far beyond the region.

"We are living through wave after wave of disruption, without pause," he told European lawmakers. "There is no telling where the boundaries of this battleground will end. That, my friends, is a threat to people everywhere."

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a puzzle-piece-shaped nation bordering Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Israel and the West Bank. More than 11 million Jordanians live between the Jordan River, the Red Sea and eastern deserts strewn with ruins.

Besides the threat from Iran, Jordan faces other challenges, such as an economy that has buckled under millions of refugees fleeing regional conflicts. Soaring energy prices and inflation have added to the burden as the tourism sector struggles to draw visitors to landscapes lionized in Hollywood by Peter O'Toole, Harrison Ford and Matt Damon.

South Korea said Friday it was weighing "contributions" to U.S. security efforts in the Strait of Hormuz provided its own military readiness wouldn't be compromised, but noted no decision had been made.

President Trump has repeatedly pressured Seoul to provide help for the U.S. war effort in the Middle East, saying it had rejected his request for assistance in securing the strait.

"Contributions to the Strait of Hormuz could be managed within limits that do not compromise military readiness," a South Korean presidential official told reporters.

"The references made during today's briefing regarding military contributions —such as combat participation, non-combat roles, and search operations — were merely general descriptions of various options. Please be advised that nothing has been decided yet concerning actual contributions," the president's office said in a separate statement.

The comments came a day after local broadcaster JTBC reported that South Korea's government was "leaning toward" dispatching troops to help with Hormuz secuirty and reviewing details ahead of seeking parliamentary approval.

Mr. Trump has struggled to get help from allies in the war that the U.S. and Israel launched on Iran six months ago.

The fighting has hit an impasse as Iran maintains a stranglehold on the strategic strait and Washington presses its counter-blockade of Iranian ports.

Ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains well below pre-war levels due to the risk of Iranian attack if ships do not comply with an Iranian vetting regime. The decline is in sharp contrast to the unhindered navigation before the war.

Last week there were 102 transits, compared with 126 the week before, according to shipping data company Lloyd's List Intelligence. That compares with 130 or more per day before the war.

Significant amounts of oil, however, continue to flow through the strait due to a shuttle trade in which tanker operators risk going through a southern route near the coast of Oman under the guidance of U.S. forces.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday voiced confidence that Iran's regime could soon fall, saying it was weaker than ever as the United States resumed attacks.

"This regime is currently teetering. It is weaker than ever. It is fighting for its survival," Netanyahu said at an event with Israeli military leaders.

"I am convinced that we can remove this threat once and for all, that is, to overthrow this regime. That is the central task that still lies ahead of us, but it is close. It is not impossible. It is within reach," he said.

Netanyahu's remarks come ahead of the Oct. 27 general elections in which some polls show him trailing as opposition leaders accuse him of failing on Iran.

"If they're not attacking us, it is not by chance. They attack everyone, but not us," Netanyahu said of Iran. "… They know our power, the strength of our arms, and our determination."

Israel announced Thursday the release of five civilians captured in southern Lebanon, where it is at war with the pro-Iranian Hezbollah group, with one man already handed over to the Lebanese army.

Lebanon said its army had received a man returned by the International Committee of the Red Cross, the first since Beirut called in August talks for the release of an initial group seized since the start of a 2024 Israel-Hezbollah war.

"After their interrogation was completed, it became clear that they are civilians who are not members of any terrorist organization, have not engaged in terrorism, and there is no reason to continue holding them in Israel," the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.

Netanyahu's office said the decision followed "extensive efforts" by Israel and Lebanon to locate and return the bodies of leaders of Lebanon's Jewish community abducted and killed in the 1980s during the country's 15-year civil war.

Asked if the war would be over by November's midterm elections, Vice President JD Vance disputed whether the conflict was still a war.

"I wouldn't call it a war," Vance said during a White House news briefing. "Right now, there is no active shooting. I recognize there have been places where this has flared up."

The vice president also said major combat operations ended after about six weeks.

"When you ask, 'When will this end?' You're asking me a question like, 'When will the Iranians stop shooting at ships?' I think the reality is I don't know the answer to that question. You would have to ask the Iranians," Vance said.

Vice President JD Vance said the U.S. wouldn't negotiate with Iran while attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz continue.

"The president's been very clear: We're not talking to them, and we're not going to talk to them unless they stop shooting at commercial shipping," Vance said during a White House news briefing.

Vice President JD Vance wouldn't say when Americans could expect lower gas prices.

Asked when Americans could expect to pay less at the pump, Vance said the U.S. has been able to avert a global energy crisis from Iran's attacks in the Strait of Hormuz.

"We've been quite successful up to this point," Vance said. "Gas, frankly, could have been much, much higher were it not for our efforts, but I'm not going to make a promise about when it's going to return to $3."

Speaking at a White House news briefing, the vice president said the U.S. was fighting Iran so it wouldn't be able to have a nuclear weapon.

As of Thursday, the average price for a gallon of regular gas across the country was $4.14, according to AAA.

Vice President JD Vance said he was "extremely skeptical" of Iranian allegations that the U.S. hit a wedding party during American strikes earlier this week.

Iranian officials said four civilians were killed and dozens more were wounded in the attack. The U.S. military said it was looking into the allegations.

"I will say that the Iranian state media has not been a very good scribe about what's happened in the conflict thus far, so I'm extremely skeptical of this," Vance told reporters during a White House news briefing.

The vice president reiterated what the U.S. military has been saying, which is that civilians are not targeted.

"Unfortunately, obviously, sometimes things happen, but in this particular case, I don't think that we have any information one way or the other," Vance said. "We're investigating it because obviously we care, we want to know."

Sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln are swapping military operations for beaches, bars and a few days of much-needed rest after landing in Thailand. And after a record nine months at sea, parents of the sailors are just happy they are on solid ground after the grueling deployment.

"I'm certain that his feet have touched the ground, and I'm really so relieved, so relieved," Christi McGarey, whose son Marshall Ludwig is a sailor on the ship, told CBS News. "Those ports are really important, and there's a reason why things like this don't happen, because since that particular vessel has been in commission there's never been this many consecutive days at sea."

Some 5,000 sailors, Marines and crew departed the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier after spending the last six months involved in the war with Iran.

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Iran-backed Houthi military forces intensified missile and artillery attacks on areas along Yemen's western coast early Thursday, according to media affiliated with government forces and local sources.

Yemen's western coast sits on the Red Sea, another key trade route in the Middle East, like the Strait of Hormuz off the Iranian coast.

The media arm of the National Resistance, which is part of the Saudi-backed Yemeni military, said the Houthis launched 14 ballistic missiles Thursday toward rural areas around Mokha in Taiz province and south of the city of Khokha in Hodeidah province.

Local residents reported hearing explosions early Thursday in Taiz and Ibb provinces, which they believed were caused by ballistic missiles launched from Houthi-controlled areas toward Yemen's western coast.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has told people close to him that Sean Parnell would be his top choice for secretary of the Army, several senior officials told CBS News.

Parnell is currently chief Pentagon spokesperson and a former Army officer.

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A U.S. official confirmed to CBS News on Thursday that Iran's attacks overnight didn't impact any military facilities in the Middle East where U.S. forces are based, including in Kuwait, which was targeted by Iranian forces.

At least six Iranian military service members were killed in the U.S. airstrikes carried out Tuesday night, Iran's semi-official Tasnim News agency said Thursday, including three it identified as pilots.

It was not clear if the six were among the 18 people Iran's health ministry said had been killed in the U.S. attacks on Tuesday in a statement issued Wednesday night.

Iranian authorities had said previously that those U.S. strikes killed at least four civilians attending a wedding in the Hormozgan Province, as well as four members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard's Aerospace Force, two members of the country's navy and one member of the Basij paramilitary unit.

President Trump appeared Thursday to contradict the U.S. military's classification of American casualties during the Iran war in a brief social media post aimed at correcting remarks by Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.

Speaking Wednesday on CNBC, Lutnick lauded Mr. Trump's approach to the war and said "there haven't been American deaths. It's really just an economic choke-out, which the administration is now executing more broadly, and I think it'll be very effective."

In his post Thursday, Mr. Trump said Lutnick "had Venezuela on his mind when he said nobody was killed. 18 people were killed in Iran!" 

In July, the Pentagon website where the number of U.S. dead and wounded in military conflicts is reported listed four service members killed in Jordan and Iraq in July under "Overseas Operations Casualties" — separate from 14 other service members who have been killed during the war with Iran.

The other 14 appear in the database as casualties of Operation Epic Fury, the Defense Department's previous name for the conflict. The four service members killed in Jordan and Iraq in July had previously also appeared on that list, but their names were removed, lowering the official Pentagon number on those killed in the war with Iran to 14 from 18.

All 18 of the U.S. forces killed during the Iran war have died outside of Iran during operations against the Islamic Republic. No U.S. forces are known to have been killed in Iranian territory.

Oil prices jumped again Thursday as Iran claimed new strikes targeting U.S. forces across the Middle East, but bond yields eased and stock markets traded steadier after recent volatility.

Crude futures had dropped briefly, after President Trump suggested U.S. attacks against Iran would likely be short-lived, but with Iran's retaliation continuing, and likely to draw further American strikes, oil prices continued the general upward trend on Thursday that has been seen for a week, since hostilities resumed.

Iran said it had attacked military bases used by U.S. forces in Kuwait and the UAE on Thursday, despite Mr. Trump threatening further strikes in a fresh flare-up six months into the war.

International benchmark Brent crude was trading Thursday morning at over $97 a barrel, its highest price point since July 23. 

U.S. crude was also selling at its highest price in more than a month at over $92 a barrel early Thursday. 

Before the U.S. and Israel jointly launched the war with Iran on Feb. 28, Brent had hovered for months around the $65 a barrel mark. The rise in global fuel prices has pushed consumer gas prices in the U.S. up, with the average cost of a gallon of regular gas across the country hitting $4.12 on Wednesday, nearly a dollar more than one year ago, according to AAA.

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Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref warned Thursday that "dark months await" the U.S. economy. He urged Americans to stockpile fuel, claiming Iran had decided to shift to "asymmetric" and "multilayered" tactics to retaliate for "new crimes of the United States against the Iranian people."

In a likely reference to the U.S. airstrike that Iranian officials say killed at least four civilians at a wedding celebration on Tuesday night in Hormozgan Province, Aref said in a social media post that U.S. actions had "changed our security calculations and defense doctrine."

"From now on, our response will be 'asymmetric,' 'multilayered' and 'depriving the aggressor of security.' Americans should think about stockpiling gasoline and fuel; dark months await the U.S. economy," he said, without offering any further detail.

The U.S. military said Wednesday that it was looking into the reports of the alleged strike hitting the wedding party. Central Command spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins stressed repeatedly that the "U.S. military never targets civilians," which he accused Iran's military forces of doing.

Iran's Ministry of Health said late Wednesday that the previous night of U.S. strikes had killed at least 18 people and left 108 wounded.

The statement from Health Minister Mohammad-Reza Zafarghandi, relayed by Iran's IRIB state television network, did not provide a breakdown of civilian and military casualties, but Iranian authorities had said over the course of Wednesday that four civilians were killed in a U.S. strike that hit a wedding celebration in the southern province of Hormozgan.

On Thursday, the head of a local hospital said most of the 70 people admitted with injuries after the strike had been discharged, but 11 remained under treatment, including five who remained in intensive care. The hospital chief said on Iranian state TV that most of the wounded were women and children.

Separately, Iranian officials said four members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard's Aerospace Force, two members of the country's navy and one member of the Basij paramilitary unit were killed in strikes Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.

Iran's army claimed Thursday to have launched new attacks targeting military bases used by U.S. forces in both Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. 

Kuwaiti authorities said Iran had targeted the country with unspecified weapons early Thursday morning, without saying whether they were intercepted or caused any damage or casualties. 

Iran's army, in a statement, claimed it hit U.S. satellite installations, warehouses and fighter jet hangars at the Ahmed Al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait "with missiles and attack drones," calling the purported attacks "retaliation for the pure blood of innocent people and brave members of the armed forces" killed in American strikes this week.

It claimed the strikes "caused damage to the communications systems and fighter aircraft hangars," but offered no evidence.

Iran's army said radar systems and "locations where [American] forces were stationed" at the UAE's Al Minhad Air Base were also attacked with missiles and drones, though the statement did not claim to have inflicted any specific damage with the strikes.

There was no immediate word from the U.S. military on any Iranian weapons impacting American facilities in the Mideast on Thursday. 

Kuwait's foreign ministry expressed its condemnation and denunciation, in the "strongest" terms, of the repeated Iranian attacks against the country, the latest of which occurred at dawn Thursday, describing them as a flagrant violation of its sovereignty, a direct threat to its security, stability, and the safety of its citizens and residents, and a serious breach of international law, the United Nations Charter, and U.N. Security Council Resolution 2817.

In a social media post, the Ministry reiterated that the continuation of these blatant attacks reflects a hostile approach and constitutes a dangerous escalation that threatens regional security and stability while systematically undermining diplomatic efforts aimed at de-escalation and reducing tensions.

The Ministry stressed that Kuwait reserves its full right to take all necessary measures to safeguard its sovereignty, preserve its security, and defend its territory and vital facilities against any aggression or threat, based on its inherent right to self-defense under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter and the rules of international law.  

A military source from the Houthi rebels in Yemen told the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar that Houthi rebel forces continue to monitor the movement of Saudi vessels in the southern Red Sea around the clock.

The source asserted that the transit of all Saudi commercial ships and oil tankers has been halted.

An Air Force email from August and obtained by CBS News shows the Pentagon was instructing personnel to stop referring to ongoing U.S. military operations in Iran as "Operation Epic Fury" — three months after the Trump administration declared it had ended. 

In response to questions from CBS News, the Pentagon said Wednesday that Operation Epic Fury officially ended May 5, the same day Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared to reporters at the White House: "The operation is over. Epic Fury is — the president notified Congress — we're done with that stage of it. We're now on to this Project Freedom." Four days earlier, Mr. Trump told Congress the "hostilities" had "terminated."

Previously, the Pentagon and U.S. Central Command had declined to disclose the operation's formal end date for months. The U.S. and Iran have continued to exchange on-and-off fire since Operation Epic Fury's official end date, though there have been lengthy pauses in fighting, including during a ceasefire that began in early April. 

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Kuwait's air defenses were responding to incoming missile and drone attacks, the Kuwait Army said early Thursday.

The Kuwait Army said in a statement on social media that the attacks were carried out by Iran. It said any explosions heard in Kuwait are the result of air defense systems intercepting incoming threats.

The army urged residents to follow security and safety instructions issued by the relevant authorities.

The U.S. military's Central Command said it has redirected 86 commercial vessels as of Wednesday, up from 84 vessels a day earlier.

CENTCOM said in a social media post that the U.S. Navy has also disabled three vessels and boarded two to "ensure compliance."

"The U.S. Navy continues to strictly enforce the U.S. blockade against Iran," CENTCOM said in the post.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, President Trump said he spoke with oil executives about price gouging a day earlier.

According to a White House readout of Tuesday's meeting, Mr. Trump met with nearly a dozen small, midsize and large refiners and distributors to discuss expanding U.S. refining capacity.

Asked if he discussed price gouging with the group, Mr. Trump said he did. "These were mostly retailers, and I want the retail prices to come down," the president said.

As of Wednesday, the average price for a gallon of regular gas nationwide is $4.12, nearly a dollar more than one year ago, according to AAA.

President Trump, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, said the U.S. hit Iran "very hard" Tuesday night, saying the strikes were because "they took a shot at us in Jordan."

"They gave a little love tap, but we hit them very hard last night," Mr. Trump said.

The president said the U.S. "took out all of the new equipment that they tried to build along the Strait of Hormuz."

"It was a very heavy attack last night," he added. "And we're prepared to do another one anytime we want."

Videos from southern Iran show the aftermath of what Iranian officials claim was a deadly U.S. strike that hit a wedding party at a home.

Iranian authorities said the strike killed at least four people and wounded dozens more. A spokesman for U.S. Central Command said the military was looking into the allegations and that the U.S. doesn't target civilians.

On Wednesday morning, the Iranian Red Crescent shared a video apparently filmed from above after daybreak, showing a hole in the roof of a house at the wedding site, with wreckage and rubble strewn across nearby alleyways.

In a separate video carried by state media, the father of the bride, Ali Mallahi, called it "a very saddening incident."

"I really don't know what to say," he said. "Thank God the casualties were not higher."

Other footage carried by Iranian media showed wounded children lying in hospital beds.

One man, apparently suffering from a head injury and lying in a hospital bed, said he was on his way to the wedding when he heard fighter jets overhead.

"As we arrived there, an explosion happened. It was really powerful, so powerful that even before I arrived there, pieces and debris from the building smashed into my head and face and I passed out," the unnamed man said in a video carried by local media.

"Lots of children and women were horribly injured. All the people were ordinary people," he added.

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President Trump suggested renaming the Strait of Hormuz after himself Wednesday.

"Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be 'hotter' than ever before!" Mr. Trump said on his Truth Social platform.

The key waterway has been at the center of renewed hostilities between the U.S. and Iran. The flare-up was sparked Sunday when American forces struck what a military spokesman said was Iran's Revolutionary Guard preparing to place more sea mines in the strait.

Last month, Mr. Trump vowed to declare the waterway a U.S. territory.

U.S. Central Command is now looking into reports that a wedding party was hit during Tuesday's strikes on Iran, a spokesman said in an updated statement Wednesday.

"We're aware of the reports, which originated from Iranian state media, and we are looking into them. The U.S. military never targets civilians, unlike the IRGC," CENTCOM spokesman Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins said in the updated statement, referring to Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

An earlier statement from Hawkins didn't say CENTCOM was looking into the reports.

Iranian state TV said at least four people were killed at the wedding party.

Iranian authorities have arrested 11 foreign nationals on suspicion of attempting to smuggle fuel out of the country, state television reported Wednesday.

The arrests in the southern part of the country come as Iran faces difficulties importing enough fuel to meet demand as the U.S. maintains a naval blockade of Iranian ports.

State television didn't report the suspects' nationalities.

It said border guards acted on intelligence reports of smuggling attempts using a tugboat.

During a search of the boat, the guards found 382,000 liters, or 99,320 gallons, of diesel fuel, it added.

Iranian authorities have for years sought to curb widespread fuel smuggling, particularly in the south, where it has contributed to local shortages.

More recently, Washington imposed its blockade of Iranian ports in retaliation for Tehran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

On Tuesday, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf called on citizens to curb gas consumption. Long lines have formed at filling stations in Tehran in recent days.

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The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier docked at a port in eastern Thailand on Wednesday after its grueling deployment in the Middle East that kept the ship at sea for more than 250 days.

Associated Press journalists watched the Lincoln, which is carrying about 5,000 service members, as it made its way into the Laem Chabang port in Chonburi province shortly after the destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. sailed past the area.

The Lincoln has been supporting the U.S. war against Iran. Its deployment included a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea. Concerns have grown about the Lincoln's lengthy deployment following reports of deteriorating mental health among the crew and shortages of supplies including food and hygiene products.

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Two Filipino sailors were killed in an attack on an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, Saudi Arabia's national shipping company Bahri said Wednesday.

"Bahri confirms that its vessel SIDR was involved in a security incident while transiting the Strait of Hormuz" on Monday night, the carrier said on social media, confirming "the loss of its two Filipino seafarers as a result" of the attack.

Saudi Arabia condemned the attack and other strikes carried out by Iran against Middle Eastern countries in a statement from its Foreign Affairs Ministry.

"The Kingdom calls on all parties to de-escalate, halt the escalation, respect international law, and return to negotiations and peaceful solutions," the ministry said.

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Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Wednesday that two oil tankers caught fire after striking mines while transiting the Strait of Hormuz outside a route designated by Iranian forces.

In a statement, the Guard said the oil tankers sought "at the urging of the U.S. military to transit via an illegal route" in the strait before "striking mines and exploding," adding that they "are currently on fire."

Fire crews managed to bring a blaze in a residential complex that was caused by an Iranian attack under control early Wednesday in Kuwait City, the Persian Gulf country's national fire brigade said.

The fire broke out in the complex in Kuwait's capital after it was hit by "a hostile drone as part of the criminal Iranian aggression," Kuwait Fire Force spokesman Brigadier General Mohammed Al-Gharib said in a statement quoted by the country's Al-Anba newspaper.

Al-Gharib said teams from the Al-Hilali and Al-Madina Fire Stations immediately tackled the fire and the operation was completed and the fire brought under control. He said there were no casualties and only limited material damage.

Iran's IRIB state television network reported Wednesday that a wedding celebration in the southern province of Hormozgan was struck by three missiles, killing at least four people and leaving dozens more wounded.

The Iranian foreign ministry earlier said a U.S. strike hit the party in a private home in southern Hormozgan province's Sirik district, killing and wounding some 50 people. 

The state TV report put the total number of casualties at just under 70, with six people said to be in critical condition.

IRIB interviewed a man identified as Mr. Malahi, a local fisherman who said the wedding was for his daughter.

The IRIB reporter said one missile crashed through the roof of the room where the party was underway, leaving a roughly 5-foot crater in the floor, while another struck a palm tree in the courtyard before destroying a wall of the home.

The U.S. military did not immediately confirm or deny reports that an American airstrike hit a wedding party in southern Iran on Tuesday evening.

"We're aware of the reports, which originated from Iranian state media," U.S. Central Command spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins told CBS News. 

"The U.S. military never targets civilians, unlike the IRGC," he added, referring to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The Associated Press and the New York Times first cited CENTCOM officials with the same statement.

Iranian state TV said the strike killed at least four people attending a wedding celebration in a home in the southern Hormozgan province. 

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its central military command, in a series of statements posted overnight, claimed to have targeted at least seven military bases across the region where U.S. forces are or have been based.

The bases mentioned by the IRGC and the military include Camp Tabrin and Prince Hassan Base in Jordan. The IRGC claimed to have killed multiple U.S. personnel in a ballistic missile strike on Camp Tabrin, but U.S. Central Command dismissed that claim, and the camp is not a U.S. base, as the IRGC suggested.

The U.S. military does not maintain any bases inside Jordan. There are several facilities in the kingdom where Jordan's military hosts U.S. forces, including the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, where three U.S. soldiers were killed in an Iranian missile strike in July, and which has been targeted again this week, and the Prince Hassan Air Base.

Iran's armed forces also claimed attacks overnight on the sprawling bases in Erbil, northern Iraq, Ali Al Salem in Kuwait, the vital U.S. Naval Base in Bahrain and the Al Dhafra and Al Minhad bases in the United Arab Emirates. 

There was no confirmation of Iranian weapons impacting any of the bases by the U.S. military, and both Bahrain and Jordan said the missiles and drones were either intercepted or landed without causing any damage. 

Iran's foreign ministry accused the U.S. of killing or wounding more than 50 people with an airstrike that hit a wedding party in a private home on Tuesday evening in the country's south.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said in a post on X that the home in Kuhestak, in the southern Hormozgan province's Sirik district, "was brutally attacked tonight while families were celebrating a wedding. More than 50 innocent men, women and children were martyred or wounded."

Baqaei referred to the purported strike as the latest in a "chain of atrocities" that he said included the strike on a school in Minab early in the war that killed dozens of children. The United States was "likely" responsible for the deadly attack on the school, but did not intentionally target the facility and may have hit it in error, possibly due to the use of dated intelligence which wrongly identified the area as still part of an Iranian military installation, a person briefed on the preliminary intelligence told CBS News in March. 

There was no immediate comment from U.S. officials on the allegation of a wedding party being hit by an American strike Tuesday in southern Iran.

"More dangerous than the bomb itself is the normalization of bombing; and more dangerous than silence is the conversion of silence into legitimacy. Iran will respond to these savage crimes with firmness," said Baqaei, warning that "those who remain silent today will not be immune to its consequences tomorrow. Turning a blind eye to injustice does not contain it; it only emboldens the perpetrators."

Oil prices were still up early Wednesday after Iran and the U.S. traded another volley of airstrikes. The return to direct hostilities this week could dim market hopes that the war might have been close to wrapping up.

International benchmark Brent crude oil traded just below $96 a barrel for November deliveries on Tuesday night, but dropped slightly to sell for around $95 early Wednesday morning. U.S. staple crude West Texas Intermediate was trading at over $90 a barrel.

Both benchmark crude prices have risen between 1% and 2% per day since fighting resumed over the weekend, putting them each about 40% higher compared to a year ago, before the Iran war severely limited tanker traffic through the vital Strait of Hormuz.

In a social media post defending the U.S. position in the Iran war, President Trump asked Tuesday, "When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?"

Mr. Trump said in the Truth Social post that the Iranian regime is "just playing out the inevitable," with its "economy totally collapsing," and said: "I couldn't care less if they sign a worthless, to them, agreement."

Mr. Trump's call for the Iranian people to "rise up" echoed his message hours after the war began in late February, when he urged Iranians to "take over your government." He also encouraged Iranian protesters to take to the streets before the war began.

Later, however, as a war he initially said would take a few weeks stretched on for months, Mr. Trump backed away from calling for the Iranian regime's ouster, saying he "never cared about regime change" and considered the deaths of top Iranian officials to be a kind of regime change. 

He has also, at various times, sought to negotiate a peace deal with the regime, calling what he has portrayed as the country's new leadership "very rational" in June.

The U.S. military's Central Command said Tuesday evening that the latest round of strikes on Iran was complete.

"U.S. forces struck Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets including air defense sites, radar systems, maritime assets and facilities, mine laying capabilities, and communications sites," CENTCOM said in a statement shared on social media.

Jordan's military said early Wednesday that the kingdom was "subjected … to a missile attack originating from Iranian territory," marking the second apparent attack in recent days.

The Jordanian armed forces said 13 ballistic missiles were detected, of which 10 were intercepted and three fell in remote areas. No injuries or deaths were reported.

Iranian state media claimed U.S. forces were killed in the strike on Jordan, but a U.S. official told CBS News that was not true.

The strikes on Jordan — a key U.S. ally that hosts American forces — came after Iran announced it had fired missiles and drones in response to U.S. airstrikes on Tuesday.

Iran's armed forces also targeted a military base in Bahrain with attack drones, Iran's semi-official Fars and Tasnim news agencies said early Wednesday. 

Bahrain's state news agency later confirmed that Iranian drones had been intercepted.

President Trump warned Iran against retaliating against the U.S. for the latest American strikes on Tuesday.

"If they retaliate, they'll be hit much harder. And if they do it again, they'll be no longer," the president told Fox News' Trey Yingst.

Iran said earlier Tuesday that it was responding to the new U.S. strikes with drone and missile attacks targeting U.S. forces in the region.

Asked if he was interested in a deal to end the war with Iran, which the Trump administration has sought on and off for months, the president said: "I think an agreement with them isn't worth the paper it's written on. We gave them a lot of chances."