On July 12, 2026 (Day 136 of the Iran-Israel-US war, Operation Epic Fury / Sunday), the war crossed two lines it had spent a week engineering around: the biggest strike map yet, and the first blood. THE WAVES: US forces ran what officials described as several waves of strikes through Sunday and into early Monday — roughly 140 targets hit by fighter aircraft, drones and warships, CENTCOM’s largest operation of the week, aimed at missile and air-defense systems and Revolutionary Guard small boats (Lloyd’s List, US officials). Iranian media reported strikes across the country: the southern province closest to the strait, projectiles on Qeshm Island (no casualties, per its governor), explosions in Bandar Abbas and Hajiabad — and, for the first time this cycle, military sites in a province near Tehran. The map is no longer coastal: five days after the first round hit the toll booth, the campaign is reaching toward the capital’s approaches. THE FIVE-COUNTRY ANSWER: Iran fired on US facilities in five host countries in a single day — the widest reprisal of the war. The IRGC claimed a command-and-control centre and drone hangars in Jordan (Amman: three missiles, minor damage, no injuries); a US radar installation in Kuwait, where three land border posts and a Kuwait Oil Company offshore platform were damaged and a worker hurt; carrier support and refuelling facilities in Oman — the mediator, struck the day after it hosted Iran’s foreign minister; and a jet maintenance centre and command facility in Qatar, with explosions heard over Doha. Sirens sounded in the UAE, though its defense authority said no missiles crossed its territory. Six Gulf and host states touched in twenty-four hours. THE ZERO BREAKS: the cycle’s first casualties arrived from three directions at once. Semiofficial Iranian agencies reported an Iranian navy officer killed in the US strikes — the first reported combatant death of the post-ceasefire cycle. In Qatar, an interception over a residential area wounded three people, including a child, with falling shrapnel (Interior Ministry). In Kuwait, the oil-platform worker made it three countries with wounded. After five days in which two militaries engineered a zero-casualty exchange across hundreds of targets, the ledger has names on it — and the calibration that kept every off-ramp open is now under the weight it was built to avoid. THE MEDIATOR PROTESTS: Oman summoned Iran’s ambassador — the first such move by any mediator in the entire war — calling Iran’s acts “irresponsible.” The state that drafted the two-corridor compromise, hosted Araghchi on Saturday, and co-administers the strait’s future under the memorandum’s own text, was struck by the party it was mediating for within a day of convening the table. THE WORDS: President Trump, on Meet the Press: “We bombed the hell out of them last night.” Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf, on X: “The era of one-sided deals is OVER. We told you: keep your word or pay the price. Reality is knocking.” And the war’s strangest personal axis ran on — Trump and the still-invisible Mojtaba trading threats through statements, a president and a ghost. THE STRAIT’S DUELING REALITIES: Washington and Tehran spent Sunday exchanging claims about whether traffic was flowing. Iran: closed “until calm is restored,” with “additional enemy bases” threatened if attacks continue. The US-led Joint Maritime Information Center: traffic continues “at reduced levels” off both the Omani and Iranian coasts, more than 140 transits over the past week — and, in the assessment that mattered most: “Despite the July 12, 2026 Iranian proclamation that the Strait of Hormuz is closed, the southern route remains available,” with mariners advised to disregard Iranian radio warnings and mine reports and coordinate transits with US forces. Lloyd’s List’s uncomfortable counterpoint: vessels have already been following the Iran-stipulated route since the memorandum’s collapse — compliance as the path of least resistance — and toll payment under threat is now a live possibility. THE CORRECTIONS AND THE CHANNELS: the GFS Galaxy’s missing Indian crewman was found — all crew accounted for and unharmed, per Lloyd’s List, retiring the cycle’s most dangerous open question. And mediation survived the barrage: Pakistan’s foreign minister phoned Araghchi urging de-escalation, a regional official said efforts to shore up the ceasefire continued through Sunday, and the mediator set has grown — Pakistan, Qatar, and now Egypt. Net assessment: five days of continuous exchange, roughly 230 targets struck across the week, four burned ships, a declared-closed strait, five host countries hit in a day including the mediator itself, strikes reaching toward Tehran, and the cycle’s first dead and wounded. The calibrated-exchange era of this war is over; what has replaced it is not yet total war but is no longer choreography. This tracker’s status moves to MAJOR ESCALATION — while noting what still holds: the Muscat channel, the two-corridor draft awaiting Iran’s answer, and phones that kept ringing through the waves.