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US strikes hit Iran for seventh consecutive night

US strikes hit Iran for seventh consecutive night

The US military said it carried out the seventh night of strikes against Iran since President Donald Trump declared the temporary ceasefire agreement was “over.” In a statement shared on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) said two oil tankers had exploded in the Strait of Hormuz while passing through a mined part of the shipping channel.

The US military said it carried out the seventh night of strikes against Iran since President Donald Trump declared the temporary ceasefire agreement was “over.”

In a statement shared on

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) said two oil tankers had exploded in the Strait of Hormuz while passing through a mined part of the shipping channel. Centcom dismissed that claim as false.

Jordan’s military said it had intercepted 10 Iranian missiles fired into its airspace overnight, although there were no casualties or damage.

Centcom said it had ended its strikes at 21:30 ET (02:30 BST) after several hours.

“US forces employed fighter jets, aerial drones and warships, in addition to other assets,” he said in his statement.

Iran’s state-run Fars agency had said two oil tankers “exploded and caught fire while passing through a mined route south of the Strait of Hormuz.” Centcom later posted on X: “Like most IRGC claims, this is false.”

Maritime traffic in the vital Strait of Hormuz has largely ground to a halt amid continued retaliatory attacks by US and Iranian forces. The strait typically accounts for about a fifth of the world’s supply of oil and liquefied natural gas.

Explosions were heard in the central city of Yazd, on the island of Qeshm and in the strait-side port of Bandar Abbas, Iranian state media reported.

On Friday, Iran’s military claimed to have attacked multiple US military facilities in the Gulf region in Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and – for the first time – Syria, which the United States denied.

Earlier, Kuwaiti officials said Iranian drone strikes had injured several of their soldiers, while a power plant and water desalination stations had also been damaged.

Sources have told BBC US partner CBS News that several US service members were injured during Iranian attacks on two Jordanian bases over the past week.

Washington denied Tehran’s earlier claims that its forces attacked civilian infrastructure in Iran, including bridges, a train station and an airport. Provincial authorities in the affected region, Hormozgan province, said seven people were killed in the attacks.

BBC Verify and BBC Persian have verified images of the damage to the Gariveh Bridge, after nighttime videos showed a ball of flames above it.

Daytime images showed a collapsed stretch of road with debris around the broken bridge.

A White House spokesman told the BBC that the United States had “carried out strikes exclusively against military targets, including military logistics infrastructure.”

Friday marks a week of US nightly strikes since peace talks with Iran collapsed, as tensions over the future of the Strait of Hormuz hampered efforts to negotiate a permanent ceasefire.

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