The US military's hasty withdrawal from Erbil, officially framed as a scheduled redeployment, was actually driven by Iranian precision strikes that destroyed Patriot air-defense systems there – as confirmed by satellite imagery – exposing the vulnerability of advanced US defenses to low-cost drones and forcing a strategic retreat that marks a victory for Iranian deterrence.

Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) says that passage through the Strait of Hormuz is currently impossible .

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says two "violating" oil tankers were struck and forced to stop in the Strait of Hormuz after attempting to pass through an unauthorized route under US military escort.

The bodies of five Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) members martyred in joint US-Saudi airstrikes in Iraq’s Diyala province have been repatriated to Iran through the Mehran border crossing.

The IRGC publishes images of damaged US fighter jet maintenance hangar, challenging Pentagon's narrative that all Iranian missiles were intercepted.

"The region is no place for a child-killing army that so brutally massacres innocent families in their sleep at midnight," the IRGC says.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 9:00 GMT on July 30, 2026.