US and Iran Exchange Missile Strikes Amid Escalating Regional Tensions

US missiles have struck targets across Iran, reaching as far as the Caspian coast, as Iran hits US bases across the region and warns of more strikes.

It comes after President Donald Trump vowed "major military punishment" for Tehran and its Houthi allies in Yemen over moves to block a second major international shipping route.

Two weeks after the collapse of an interim truce meant to end the war, Iranian armed forces have responded by firing at US bases in neighbouring countries and warning people there that they may strike non-military buildings used by US personnel.

The Iranian army said Mr Trump's threats only strengthened its resolve, claiming to have attacked US military equipment depots at Al-Adiri, latterly named Camp Buehring, in northern Kuwait, and the positions of US troops at Camp Arifjan and at Camp Doha, near Kuwait City.

Iran warns people to 'move away' from areas used by the US military

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had also significantly damaged a surveillance tower used by the US in Bahrain.

While Jordan's military said it had intercepted seven missiles and six drones launched by Iran on Friday.

The military said the interceptions, performed by air defence systems and air force planes, "resulted in no casualties or material damage".

In exchange, US missiles struck a Revolutionary Guards Navy headquarters in the Ziba Kenar area of the Caspian Sea province of Gilan while also hitting Piranshahr, in West Azerbaijan Province, near Iran's border with Iraq, according to state media.

Four people were killed and five injured in a US missile attack on the Iranian city of Ahvaz, state broadcaster IRIB said.

In a statement read out by Iran's state media, the Revolutionary Guards warned the public in the Gulf countries of potential strikes against US military personnel who may be using "buildings in cities as locations to direct their crimes".

It told people to "immediately move away from areas within a 500 metre radius of covert and hidden locations used by US military personnel".

Red Sea blockade pushes up oil prices

The fighting comes after the Houthis, who control northern and western Yemen, said this week they were imposing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, which has diverted millions of barrels of oil each day by pipeline to the Red Sea to skirt Iran's near-total blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.

The blockade has stoked global inflation and fanned fears of an economic downturn.

Houthi fighters struck two Saudi tankers on Thursday in the Red Sea's Bab el-Mandeb strait, pushing oil prices 7 per cent higher to pierce the $100 ($143) per barrel level for the first time since May but fell back under $100 on Friday.

Mr Trump wrote on social media he would hold Iran accountable for any further attacks by the fighters "and major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis, themselves".

He also said that any damage to cargo ships would be paid for with Iranian money, referring to frozen Iranian assets held by the United States, but without specifying how.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi responded with a warning on X, saying no one's assets were safe once governments normalised such confiscation.

"Ensuing chaos will not be pretty or peaceful," he wrote.