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Iranian Communications and Infrastructure Hit by U.S. Strikes
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In Short: Provincial authorities in Hormozgan province report seven deaths and significant damage to radio towers and water infrastructure following U.S. military strikes.
Communications services in Iran's Hormozgan province were disrupted after U.S. strikes damaged 116 radio towers, according to BBC reports. The strikes also reportedly killed seven people in the region. A spokesperson for the White House stated that the attacks targeted military logistics infrastructure exclusively.
Hamzeh Pour, CEO of the Hormozgan Water and Wastewater Company, reported that US strikes hit desalination pumps and electrical infrastructure in Bunji village, Jask, cutting off water supplies to 20 villages. Pour described the strikes as 'a series of crimes and terrorist attacks,' noting that a seawater pumping station and a power transformer serving the Bunji desalination plant were completely destroyed.
The strikes, part of a seventh consecutive wave of attacks by US Central Command (Centcom), also caused damage to two bridges on the Bandar Abbas-Rudan transport route and resulted in at least eight civilian deaths, according to Iranian state media. In response, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned countries hosting U.S. military forces to prepare for a 'corresponding response.
This incident follows a series of escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran, with Iran's IRGC issuing a warning and Iranian state media reporting further damage to infrastructure in Hormozgan province.
Background
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and historically known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
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- Provincial authorities in the affected region, Hormozgan province, said seven people were killed in the attacks.
- A White House spokesperson told the BBC the US had "carried out strikes exclusively on military targets, including military logistics infrastructure".
- Hamzeh Pour, chief executive of the Hormozgan Water and Wastewater Company, said US strikes hit desalination pumps and electrical infrastructure in Bunji village, in Jask, cutting off water supplies to 20 villages.
- Pour called the strikes "a series of crimes and terrorist attacks", adding that a seawater pumping station and a power transformer serving the Bunji desalination plant had been "completely destroyed".
- The damage came as US Central Command (Centcom) said it had carried out its seventh consecutive wave of strikes against Iran overnight.
- Meanwhile, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a warning against countries hosting US military forces to prepare for a "corresponding response".
- Iranian state media also reported fresh damage to two bridges on the Bandar Abbas-Rudan transport route, while officials said at least eight civilians were killed in Friday's attacks in Hormozgan province.