US announces ‘deeper strikes’ in Iran, Senate fails to curb Trump’s war powers: Live Updates (PHOTOS, VIDEOS): As it happened

A tanker anchored off Kuwait reported a large explosion on its port side and was taking on water, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Thursday, adding that the crew were safe and no fires had been reported.

UKMTO said oil was leaking into the water from a cargo tank, raising potential environmental concerns, while Kuwait’s interior ministry later said the incident happened outside the country’s territorial waters, at least 60 km from the southeast of Kuwait’s Mubarak Al Kabeer port.

Iranian state broadcaster Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) has aired footage from Lordegan in western Iran showing what it said were the remnants of a AGM‑158 JASSM cruise missile used in recent US strikes.

An anti-Iran war protester was injured during a scuffle with police and Senator Tim Sheehy after disrupting a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

Brian McGinnis, a former US Marine and Green Party Senate candidate in North Carolina, interrupted testimony by members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shouting “No one wants to fight for Israel” before officers and the senator forcibly removed him from the chamber.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said he couldn’t rule out his country’s military participation in the escalating war in the Middle East.

Speaking alongside Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra on Thursday, Carney said the question of possible involvement was “hypothetical,” but added that “one can never categorically rule out participation.” He said Canada would “stand by our allies” and “always defend Canadians,” while reiterating his call for “de-escalation” of the conflict.

According to the semi‑official Iranian news agency ISNA, Iran threatened to target the Dimona nuclear site in southern Israel if the United States and Israel attempted “regime change” in Tehran.

The site, officially called the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, is widely associated with Israel’s long‑suspected nuclear weapons program

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it fired more than 40 missiles at US bases during the 17th wave of strikes and shot down ten Israeli Hermes‑type drones and US MQ‑9 Reaper drones.

Iranian officials reported that they shot down the latest US MQ‑9 Reaper drone over northern Iraq on Wednesday evening.

NATO chief Mark Rutte told Newsmax there has been “widespread support” for the US strikes in Iran.

Asked whether an attack on a NATO member state’s embassy in a third country would be considered an attack on the bloc as a whole, Rutte said there were “good reasons” to remain ambiguous about Article 5 of the NATO Charter, which covers collective defense.

“We keep it very ambiguous because we don’t want to make our enemies, our adversaries, any wiser,” Rutte said.

The US Senate voted down a Democrat-backed war powers resolution aimed at blocking President Donald Trump from using the military for hostilities within or against Iran without congressional approval.

The US Central Command announced that American forces are “expanding strikes deeper into Iranian airspace by the hour.” 

CENTCOM claimed that Iran’s missile launches have been reduced by 86% and drone launches by 73%.

Powerful explosions were reported in Tehran in the early hours of Thursday.

Several media outlets, including AP and i24NEWS, reported that Iraqi-based Kurdish groups are preparing to launch an offensive against Iran.

An official with the Coalition of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan told i24NEWS that militias began taking combat positions inside Iran on Monday.

CNN reported earlier that the CIA was working to arm Kurdish groups as part of a plan to start a rebellion in Iran, which has a sizable Kurdish minority.