Day 155 of the WarSaturday, August 1, 2026
Day 155 — Reports Say Trump Approved a New Attack Plan Aimed at Iran's Energy and Missiles; Fars Names Gulf Energy Targets
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UNICEF on Qeshm — 'Children Continue to Pay the Heaviest Price'
Iran- UNICEF's regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, citing Iranian reports that a two-year-old child and their parents were killed and two other children injured when a missile hit a residential building on Qeshm, said children across the region 'continue to pay the heaviest price,' per Iran International.source
- An Iranian who calls himself 'Mark Vahidi' sent IranWire a Lego animation mocking the regime's war propaganda: 'As soon as you step into the street, you see poverty and misery... and Mojtaba Khamenei and his regime are only thinking about propaganda and building Legos.'source
Inside the Regime — Ghalibaf Recounts the Night Khamenei Died
- Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said officials learned Ali Khamenei had been killed about an hour after the bombing on the war's first day; the heads of branches met at 8 p.m. and planned to announce it the next morning, then chose to announce it at dawn and call people into the streets, per Iran International.source
- Iran International notes Ghalibaf says he was certain within the first hour, even as regime officials publicly denied Khamenei's death for hours afterward.source
- Reuters reports the IRGC has for years controlled several of Iran's largest gambling websites and used them to move money abroad and evade sanctions, as an MP says the failure to repatriate oil revenues goes beyond any single oil trust, per Iran International.source
A New Attack Plan on Trump's Desk — Energy, Power Plants, and Missile Tunnels
- The Wall Street Journal reports Trump has approved a new attack plan presented at Camp David that could begin as early as this weekend and run for several days, though any immediate diplomatic progress could halt it; one option is a two-week air campaign against Iran's missile capabilities, per Iran International.source
- CBS News, the WSJ, and Axios report power plants and refineries are likely targets and that U.S. officials even discussed cutting electricity across Tehran; some White House aides opposed the plan, and an Israeli official said Israel is unaware of a decision to resume full-scale operations.source
- CNN reports CENTCOM is preparing a two-week heavy bombing campaign against the regime's missile sites and infrastructure, per LiveIranNews.source
- Babak Taghvaee claims that within 12 to 36 hours U.S. and Israeli forces will begin a week-long operation to destroy the tunnel entrances of IRGC missile bases and hit energy facilities and power plants, aiming to force Tehran to hand over its 60%-enriched uranium.source
Tehran Names the Gulf's Energy Crown Jewels as Targets
- IRGC-linked Fars published a list of the region's key energy sites it says are within range of Iranian missiles — Saudi Arabia's Ghawar, Abqaiq, and Khurais, the UAE's Ruwais and Zakum, Qatar's North Dome and Ras Laffan, Kuwait's Burgan, Bahrain's Sitra, and Israel's Leviathan and Tamar, per Iran International.source
- MP Hakem Memkan called Hormuz 'a tool in our hands to disrupt the economic system of the region and the world' and urged the armed forces to strike U.S. positions and allied states 'with full force,' while commission spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said the only option is to accept Iran's passage arrangements, per Iran International.source
- UKMTO reported a vessel was attacked in the southern shipping lane near Oman in the Strait of Hormuz, per Open Source Intel.source
- Two senior IRGC officials told The New York Times that during the ceasefire Quds Force commanders held online calls with leaders of Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iraqi militias, and that IRGC commanders now sit directly on Hezbollah's leadership council, per Open Source Intel.source