A senior U.S. official said both sides have agreed to stop attacking each other, and U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Tuesday with Qatari mediators in Doha, but Qatar and Iran said there were no direct negotiation meetings scheduled between the two countries.
CENTCOM said U.S. fighter jets conducted strikes on 10 Iranian military targets at multiple locations, launched in direct response to a one-way attack drone that hit the Panama-flagged M/T Kiku as it was passing in the Strait of Hormuz while carrying more than two million barrels of crude oil. CENTCOM said aircraft struck missile and drone storage facilities, coastal radar positions, military surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites and minelayer capabilities.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had launched ballistic missiles and drones at "eight key pieces of infrastructure" at the Ali al-Salem base in Kuwait and the Fifth Naval Fleet in Port Salman, Bahrain, and said it destroyed them while accusing the United States of violating the ceasefire agreement.
A U.S. official said there were no reported U.S. casualties or major impacts or damage to U.S. facilities in the Middle East. Bahrain said a residential building was damaged with "no loss of life," Kuwait's army said its air defenses intercepted two ballistic missiles with no damage reported, and the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center raised the threat level in the strait to "substantial," warning mariners of mines and of a naval presence as clearance operations continue; CENTCOM said commercial vessels were continuing to operate in the Strait of Hormuz.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the United States would be represented in Doha by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and that both high-level and technical talks were expected to take place. President Donald Trump said the planned U.S. efforts in Qatar would be "perhaps important, perhaps not," and a TODAY report said the administration was sending a high-level team to resume peace negotiations even as both sides appeared far from a formal agreement.
Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari said Witkoff and Kushner were in Doha to meet with mediators and Qatari officials and that "to the best of my knowledge, there are no direct meetings scheduled between the two parties in the coming days," adding that "there is currently no high-level delegation present." Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said an expert Iranian delegation would travel to Doha later in the week to discuss implementation of the memorandum of understanding but that "we have not yet entered the stage of negotiating a final agreement" and that "over the coming days, we will not have any negotiation meetings with the U.S. side at any level."
CBS and AFP reported violence inside Iran, saying attackers shot dead two members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards at their home in the western city of Paveh and that a separate attack in Saravan left a father dead and a mother later mortally wounded; state television called the incidents a "terrorist and cowardly act" and blamed "Zionist-American mercenaries."
Analysts and economists cited by CBS said the conflict's effects may be long lasting: Aaron David Miller said ships were unlikely to return to moving through the Strait of Hormuz as freely as before Feb. 27, and Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi estimated the war has cost Americans roughly $1,000 per household in higher fuel, food and other expenses since the conflict began in February.
Maritime tracking firm Kpler said shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz began to rebound Monday, with 40 vessels passing through the waterway that day, following 24 ships on Sunday and 39 ships on Saturday.