Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Baghaei said Iran's resilient resistance thwarted the enemy's calculations.

Zhuhai Border Inspection Station said the National Immigration Administration approved, and in coordination with the Macau Public Security Police Force, it will implement three facilitation measures under an optimized "cooperative inspection, one‑time release" model at the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, Hengqin and Qingmao cooperative inspection ports from 00:00 on Aug. 18, 2026. Measures include streamlined document checks for Hong Kong and Macau residents, dedicated cooperative fast lanes and expanded eligibility for joint one‑stop vehicle lanes. Authorities say the changes are intended to speed passenger clearance and ease people flows across the Guangdong‑Hong Kong‑Macao Greater Bay Area.

The Iranian parliament’s presidium spokesman Abbas Goudarzi said on the 16th the legislature passed an anti-infiltration bill to counter infiltration by hostile intelligence agencies and foreign governments or organisations. Hassan Kashkavi, spokesman for the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said existing laws address espionage but left a legal gap on anti-infiltration that the new bill is intended to fill.