Two days after U.S. strikes on the area, the Persian Gulf and the port city of Bandar Abbas were calm and quiet on Friday. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Associated Press.
On Thursday, hundreds of people gathered in southern Iran for the funeral of four people who Iranian state media said were killed in a strike on a wedding ceremony.
Photographs by Associated Press photographer Vahid Salemi show commercial vessels anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas. One image shows a man resting at a waterfront shelter, another shows a man, woman and boy riding a motorcycle along the waterfront, and another shows a boy playing with a toy truck on a beach in Kuhestak.
In southern Lebanon, a Red Cross convoy was filmed passing a checkpoint near the border with Israel in the village of Mansouri. The photo was taken by Associated Press photographer Mohammed Zaatari. Correction: This is a Red Cross convoy, not a U.N. peacekeeper convoy.
The Associated Press video was shot by Mohsen Ganji. The situation on the ground is stable, but tensions remain in the region.