Saturday's US strikes on three Iranian oil tankers, already covered in this feed, drew further detail from the Guardian and CNBC, but the genuinely new item sits on the economic track: the US Treasury Department said on Friday it had sanctioned a small Turkish investment bank and two subsidiaries that it accuses of facilitating funds for an arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guard [2].

Treasury named Golden Global Yatirim Bankasi Anonim Sirketi and its subsidiaries Golden Global Varlik Kiralama Anonim Sirketi and Golden Global Portfoy Yonetimi Anonim Sirketi, alleging they were established to enable Iran's "rahbar network" to transfer oil revenues from China to Turkey, where the funds could be converted into cash and gold by rahbar money exchangers [2]. CNBC reports the bank is the second major financial institution targeted under "Operation Economic Outcast," a Trump administration effort to isolate Tehran through non-military pressure on its business partners. These are US government allegations; no response from the named entities is cited.

On the military side, both outlets relay CENTCOM's account that an aircraft carrier and a guided-missile destroyer evaded multiple IRGC ballistic missile attacks with no American personnel harmed before the tankers were struck [1] [2]. CNBC adds that Iran exported 90% of its crude via Kharg Island before the war, that a US blockade of Iranian oil exports has run since mid-April, and describes the strait as effectively shut by the conflict [2]. Neither outlet reports any Iranian official response to Saturday's strikes.