U.S. forces hit over 80 targets in a single day in a brand new spherical of airstrikes that got here as an “fast response” to Iran’s assaults on three industrial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command stated.
“U.S. forces struck Iranian air protection programs, command and management networks, coastal radar websites, anti-ship missile capabilities, and greater than 60 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps small boats in and close to the strait to degrade Iran’s means to proceed attacking worldwide commerce flowing by means of the worldwide commerce hall,” CENTCOM stated in a social media post.
A nonetheless picture from a video launched by U.S. Central Command exhibiting the newest spherical of U.S. airstrikes.
U.S. Central Command
CENTCOM described them as “offensive strikes” — in distinction to strikes final month that the U.S. navy characterised as “self-defense strikes.”
CENTCOM stated the current strikes focusing on industrial tankers within the strait amounted to “unwarranted aggression” and a transparent and harmful violation of the ceasefire and undermines freedom of navigation.
“CENTCOM forces stay postured and ready to carry Iran accountable when the settlement just isn’t adhered to or obeyed,” the U.S. assertion stated.
