Tehran answered Trump's claim that Iran urgently sought a deal with a renewed refusal: Mohsen Rezaei said no talks until Islamabad memorandum terms were met, while Pezeshkian insisted Iran was not at war with Saudi Arabia and had dispute only with US bases.
Attention then shifted to Washington's first inspector-general accounting of Operation Epic Fury, carried across Persian outlets as putting the cost at $33 billion, 13,500 Iranian targets struck, and strategic depletion of THAAD and Patriot interceptors.
By evening the focus moved to the sea. With the Saudi crown prince in Cairo for Bab al-Mandeb talks and reports of halted loadings at Yanbu, CENTCOM told US-based Persian media it had foiled an IRGC attempt to seize an unmanned vessel, with Axios cited that two Iranian boats were destroyed. State-aligned outlets did not confirm the clash.