Iran's response to US attacks will be 'more painful', parliament speaker says

DUBAI: The US should understand that the rules of the game in war against Iran have changed “before it is too late”, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said on Sunday, a day after the US struck several Iranian tankers in the Gulf.

Explosions heard near Iran’s Kharg Island in Gulf, origin unknown, Fars news says

“From now on, any attack against Iran’s interests and security will receive a faster, heavier and more painful response,” he said in a speech published on his Telegram channel.

The US military said late on ​Tuesday it completed its latest wave of strikes on Iran, saying it struck ‌Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets as the Iran war escalated following a weekend exchange of fire.

US forces struck IRGC targets “including air defense sites, radar systems, maritime assets and facilities, mine laying capabilities, and communications ​sites,” the US Central Command said on X.

An Axios report, citing ​US officials, said the US military attacked two Iranian government tankers in ⁠Tuesday’s strikes.

Iran retaliated on Tuesday to the barrage of US strikes, as the ​exchange marked the most serious escalation in weeks in a conflict that has driven ​up global energy prices.

The strikes followed a weekend exchange of fire, the first since late July, and attacks on Monday on two tankers leaving the Strait of Hormuz, the global oil supply ​waterway that Iran has effectively closed to shipping.

Tehran struck back at US assets ​in Jordan, Bahrain and Iraq.