A CNN investigation has found that what appear to be Iran-linked groups are using social media to try to recruit individuals to carry out surveillance and attacks.

Iran’s foreign minister accused Washington of undermining diplomacy. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. expected to hear from Tehran on Friday.

Iran and its armed allied groups possess a large fleet of drones and have used them to carry out hundreds of strikes since the war began. The events marked the latest threats to a month-old ceasefire, which the Trump administration says remains in effect.

US strikes Iran LIVE updates: Strait of Hormuz continues to be under blockade by the US and Iran and has unleashed the biggest oil supply shock in history, sending energy prices sharply higher.

The U.S. military said it struck Iranian military targets after, it said, Iran fired on U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump threatened more if Iran didn’t agree to a peace offer.

U.S. Central Command said that forces struck Iranian military sites responsible for missile, drone and boat attacks on U.S. warships on Thursday.

The US says it targeted Iranian "missile and drone launch sites; command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance nodes".

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained hundreds of Iranian nationals during the June 2025 attack on Iran, according to US government data obtained by the National Iranian American Council under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.