The U.S. conducted strikes against at least two locations in Iran Thursday, a U.S. official said.
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The strikes in Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island were defensive, the official said, and do not constitute a resumption of major combat operations against Iran.
U.S. Central Command said in a post on X that two U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers came under attack as they transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman and responded in self-defense.
“Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones and small boats as USS Truxtun (DDG 103), USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), and USS Mason (DDG 87) transited the international sea passage,” CENTCOM said in the post.
“No U.S. assets were struck. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) eliminated inbound threats and targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U.S. forces including missile and drone launch sites; command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance nodes. CENTCOM does not seek escalation but remains positioned and ready to protect American forces.”
The Iranian military said that it had fired at U.S. military ships only after the U.S. military violated the ceasefire and attacked an Iranian oil tanker.
“The invading, terrorist and pirate U.S. military violated the ceasefire by targeting an Iranian oil tanker moving from Iran’s coastal waters in the Jask area towards the Strait of Hormuz, as well as another vessel entering the Strait of Hormuz opposite the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates,” said a spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya military command headquarters, according to the semiofficial Mehr news agency.
The spokesman also said that the U.S. had carried out air attacks on “civilian areas” along Iran’s coast and Qeshm Island.
Iran’s state-owned Press TV later reported that following the exchange of fire the situation in Iranian coastal cities near the Strait of Hormuz was “back to normal now.”
