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Iran promises to respond to new wave of US strikes despite Trump’s threats
Confirmed
The Trump administration had said that it was shifting its strategy from military strikes to intense economic pressure on Iran. The U.S. has launched “large and powerful” strikes on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz , President Donald Trump said Tuesday in a post on Truth Social.
Attacks on ships around the strait have been reported almost daily, despite Trump and his aides saying that the US is managing to get millions of barrels of oil through the strait daily despite the Iranian blockade. The U.S. strikes were the first known attack by American forces since late July, and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps , or IRGC, said several of its “fighters and compatriots” had been killed and injured.
It was the first major military escalation in weeks in the war which began when American and Israeli forces launched an assault on Iran in late February, killing its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The same day, the defense ministry of the United Arab Emirates said its air force “engaged” at least one drone over its territorial waters after Iran launched drones at an air base in the country.
Were the Islamic Republic to retaliate, Trump said “they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings. “The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region,” CENTCOM said.
Trump said that the attack was “retaliation for the Iranians’ failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait,” adding that the mines had been “removed and detonated. After vowing “punishment” in response to Sunday’s U.S. strikes, the IRGC announced later that day that it had launched attacks against U.S. military bases in Jordan.
In response, Iran’s armed forces general staff said in a statement on Telegram that it would “impose a heavy cost on the American enemy. The US president has repeatedly issued similar threats since the start of the war in February.
Iranian state TV said the U.S. struck a fishmeal factory on Qeshm Island in the strait as well as several civilian targets in Hormozgan province. Iranian semiofficial news agency Tasnim reported explosions in the south of the country, including in Konarak, Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island.
What's confirmed
- The U.S. has launched “large and powerful” strikes on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz , President Donald Trump said Tuesday in a post on Truth Social.
- The Trump administration had said that it was shifting its strategy from military strikes to intense economic pressure on Iran.
- Attacks on ships around the strait have been reported almost daily, despite Trump and his aides saying that the US is managing to get millions of barrels of oil through the strait daily despite the Iranian blockade.
- It was the first major military escalation in weeks in the war which began when American and Israeli forces launched an assault on Iran in late February, killing its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
- Were the Islamic Republic to retaliate, Trump said “they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings.
- Trump said that the attack was “retaliation for the Iranians’ failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait,” adding that the mines had been “removed and detonated.
What's still developing
- “The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region,” CENTCOM said.
- Iranian semiofficial news agency Tasnim reported explosions in the south of the country, including in Konarak, Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island.
- The US president has repeatedly issued similar threats since the start of the war in February.
- The Trump administration had said that it was shifting its strategy from military strikes to intense economic pressure on Iran.
- Attacks on ships around the strait have been reported almost daily, despite Trump and his aides saying that the US is managing to get millions of barrels of oil through the strait daily despite the Iranian blockade.
- Trump said that the attack was “retaliation for the Iranians’ failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait,” adding that the mines had been “removed and detonated.
- Were the Islamic Republic to retaliate, Trump said “they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings.
- In response, Iran’s armed forces general staff said in a statement on Telegram that it would “impose a heavy cost on the American enemy.