The Israeli and US offensive against Iran has lasted as long as the so-called 12-day war of June 2025, with no signs of negotiation or of ending soon, which has driven oil prices up again.
At least four ships were attacked on Wednesday in the Strait of Hormuz, while Iran warned again that it will not allow “not a single liter of oil” to pass through this strategic passage for the benefit of the US, Israel or their partners. This continues to cause problems with oil supply worldwide. This is the summary of the 12th day of the US war against Iran:
How long will the war last?
🇮🇱🇮🇷Los cowardly leaders of Iran’s terrorist regime hide like rats in tunnels, just like the criminals of Hamas.
Israel’s Minister of Defense, Israel Katz:
“We will attack their military bases, their facilities and their commanders EVERY DAY, without… pic.twitter.com/5T2zkygojf
– Jhonf Fonseca (@Jhonffonseca) March 11, 2026
U.S. and Israeli officials have been contradicting each other for 12 days about how long the offensive will drag on, but the current rhetoric seems to agree that it will last for quite some time.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz assured Wednesday that the military offensive against Iran “will continue without time limit” until “all objectives” are achieved and “the campaign” is won.
President Trump, meanwhile, said today in an interview with Axios that “soon” the war in Iran will end because there is “virtually nothing left to attack” in the country.
French President Emmanuel Macron warned that Iranian military capabilities “have not been reduced to zero,” contradicting Trump’s statements.
“Not a liter of oil” by Ormuz
BREAKING: Just hours after Trump told Oil Tankers to enter the Strait of Hormuz, regardless of Iran’s threats, an oil tanker is reportedly targeted and decimated by Iran in the Persian Gulf, just past the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump’s horrific advice may have just gotten people… pic.twitter.com/sIlztoUWW0
– Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) March 11, 2026
At least four attacks on merchant ships in the Strait of Hormuz were reported today, according to reports from the British agency UKMTO and Iranian sources.
According to UKMTO, a Greek-owned bulk carrier was hit by a shell. The captain himself reported the impact and assured that the crew was “safe and sound”.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard said to have attacked a Thai-flagged bulk carrier with 23 crew members on board. The attack caused a fire on board, and the Royal Navy of Oman has rescued 20 crew members.
The UKMTO reported another attack on a container ship that was at anchor and whose crew is safe: the Japanese-flagged ‘One Majesty’.
The Revolutionary Guard has also claimed responsibility for the attack on an Israeli-owned, Liberian-flagged vessel, identified as the ‘Express Rome’.
Iran today threatened to attack “all ports and economic centers in the region” after the United States urged the Iranian population to avoid civilian ports used by the country’s armed forces.
Emmanuel Macron later acknowledged that “the conditions are not met” for carrying out a military mission to secure maritime trade in the Strait of Hormuz, which is “a war zone”, but insisted that it “must be organized” to provide escort for merchant ships.
Oil reserves
URGENT – HISTORIC
President Trump confirms that the United States, along with the 32 IEA countries, is releasing an all-time record 400 million barrels from strategic oil reserves.The biggest release in the history of the IEA!
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– Jhonf Fonseca (@Jhonffonseca) March 11, 2026
The countries of the International Energy Agency (IEA) are to draw 400 million barrels from their strategic reserves to compensate for supply losses. This is the largest volume ever drawn down from these strategic reserves, which are intended to respond to crisis situations.
Iran warned that it will not be possible to lower the price of oil through “artificial measures” and that it can be expected, because of the pressure it has imposed on the Strait of Hormuz, that the price of a barrel will rise to $200.
The President of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, stated that the EU must offer “relief” to households and companies in the face of rising energy prices.
OPEC kept its forecasts for oil demand and supply and global economic growth unchanged in its March market report, which does not mention the war.
Oil prices resumed their upward path today and both Brent and Texas Intermediate were up nearly 5% before the end of today’s markets.
Doubts about the health of the new Iranian leader
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 | #URGENT LIQUID: Lest Trump send him straight to hell, the Iranian terrorist regime introduced the new supreme leader Mojtablah Khamenei through a cardboard with his face on it pic.twitter.com/npsGfZxwav
– La Derecha Diario (@laderechadiario) March 10, 2026
Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has not been seen in public or on video or issued any statement since he was named by Iran’s clerics as the new supreme leader on Sunday, raising doubts about his health.
Rumors about Mojtaba Khamenei’s situation arose after Iranian state television used the term ‘janbaz’, which refers to those wounded in combat, following his election as supreme leader, without providing details.
The New York Times reported today that he was wounded in the legs on the first day of the war, February 28.
The advisor and son of Iran’s president, Yusef Pezeshkian, denied speculation that the new supreme leader has been injured and affirmed that “he is fine”.
Day 12 of Iran-US war
Thousands of supporters of the Islamic Republic marched through central Tehran Wednesday amid shouts of “revenge” and “no surrender” as explosions could be heard nearby at the funeral for several senior Iranian military officers killed in the war against Israel and the United States.
For several days now, no authority or agency in Iran has updated the death toll in the attacks, but WHO announced today that at least 43 attacks on health networks in Lebanon and Iran have been recorded over the 12 days, killing at least 24 people and injuring 29.
Israel bombed a residential building in a central Beirut neighborhood today, in its second attack inside the capital, after four suspected Iranian commanders were killed three days ago at a hotel on the city’s waterfront. The attack left four wounded.
With information from EFE
