Saudi officials have named what they expect to be attacked next: energy facilities, ports and airports. The same day eleven civilians were wounded in Najran, one a four-year-old with second-degree burns, and nobody has claimed it. Pakistan and Turkiye sent leaders to Jeddah ahead of an unsigned defence instrument. Iran's Hormuz policy split into two contradictory tracks, and Washington rejected one.
Iran's Majlis and foreign ministry are running contradictory Hormuz policies; only one has been rejected by Washington.
A strike on Najran province wounded eleven civilians on 6 August, among them a four-year-old with second-degree burns. Nobody has claimed it.
United Arab EmiratesUnited StatesAn unclaimed strike wounded 11 civilians in the southern Saudi province of Najran on 6 August, including a four-year-old with second-degree burns. No group has said it carried out the attack.
Groups such as the Houthis normally claim hits within hours, so this silence is different. That makes Najran harder to attribute, and harder to retaliate against.
Saudi officials published an intelligence assessment naming energy facilities, ports and airports as the next things to be hit, and said the attacks are expected in the very near future.
United Arab EmiratesSaudi Arabia said on 6 August it holds intelligence that Iraqi Shia militias and the Houthis, coordinated by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, are preparing strikes on its energy facilities, ports and airports. Riyadh named no specific installation or date.
The warning follows a July pattern: Riyadh blamed Iraqi territory for a 27 July drone attack, then struck militia targets inside Iraq two days later. No strike has yet followed this latest attribution.
NPR reported on 6 August that the Trump administration has rejected Iran's parliamentary plan for the Strait of Hormuz, while intermediaries keep working on the corridor deal with Oman.
United StatesThe Trump administration rejected a Hormuz transit bill from Iran's Majlis on 6 August, NPR reported, as US Central Command's tally of redirected and boarded vessels kept rising the same week.
The bill would have fined foreign shippers and barred cargo linked to Israel. A separate, Oman-mediated channel stays open, where Iran's foreign minister already has preliminary approval for a different draft.
Iran's parliament is merging twelve Hormuz bills into one text that would bar Israeli-linked cargo until compensation is paid, fine offenders a fifth of cargo value and charge navigation fees in rial.
United StatesIranIran's parliament merged twelve Hormuz bills into one draft on 6 August. It would bar cargo linked to Israel and fine other shippers up to 20% of cargo value.
The bill sits apart from separate Oman-mediated talks Iran's foreign ministry is running on the same strait. It is a harder line from parliament, not from Tehran's negotiators.
Pakistan's prime minister, army chief and foreign minister arrived in Jeddah on 6 August, with Erdogan following a day later, ahead of a trilateral defence text nobody outside the room has read.
Saudi Arabia×2United StatesFrancePakistan's Prime Minister, army chief and foreign minister landed in Jeddah on 6 August, with Turkey's president due to arrive the next day, ahead of an unsigned trilateral defence deal with Saudi Arabia.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia already have a mutual defence pact, invoked earlier this year, and Pakistani jets helped defend Saudi airspace in April. Turkey's addition would be new.
US Central Command put its Iranian port blockade at 49 redirected vessels, two disabled and two boarded, a mix that turns merchant traffic around without wrecking it.
United StatesUS Central Command said on 6 August its blockade of Iranian ports has redirected 49 vessels, disabled two and boarded two since resuming on 14 July.
The redirect total keeps climbing even as diplomatic talks continue, and the low number of disabled vessels suggests the aim is rerouting traffic, not stopping it outright.
Fars, citing an unnamed foreign ministry official, described a Hormuz arrangement that cancels itself: coastal lanes first, then one central corridor, with Iran managing everything inbound.
United StatesUnited KingdomFars News reported on 6 August that Hormuz would run through temporary coastal lanes near each shore, then merge into one central lane. Iran alone would manage inbound ships, and jointly with Oman outbound.
Other reporting on the same talks describes a different split, and neither Iran nor Oman has published the actual route or its coordinates, so the accounts cannot yet be checked against each other.
Fars denied any percentage tariff on Hormuz transits hours after Reuters reported that Iran had sought 5 to 7 per cent of cargo value and Oman around 3 per cent.
United Kingdom×2Fars News denied on 6 August that Iran or Oman will charge a percentage-based Hormuz fee. Reuters had reported two days earlier that Iran sought 5 to 7% of cargo value and Oman about 3%.
Neither figure is confirmed independently, and no government has published a fee schedule, so shippers cannot yet price the cost of passing through Hormuz.
Sideways for now. The nearer decision point is whether the Majlis bill survives Guardian Council review with the Israeli-linked cargo bar and 20% fines intact. If it does, Tehran converts a negotiating position into domestic law that directly collides with a rejection Washington has already issued. CENTCOM's own enforcement is the slower-burning trigger: two boardings disclosed since 14 July, a measure this blockade phase had not used before. A third boarding, or the first use of force during one, would mark the shift from traffic management to attrition and is the more immediate tripwire than the legislative one.
