🇺🇸/🇮🇷 A U.S. official confirms strike against Iran:
“We conducted precise defensive strikes against sites in Bandar Abbas, Iran.”
“We conducted precise defensive strikes against sites in Bandar Abbas, Iran.”
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Tomahawk missile impacts at Konarak
Most of the current wave of attacks is apparently being carried out by ship-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Most of the current wave of attacks is apparently being carried out by ship-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles.
⚡️🇮🇷 Iranian state media confirms explosions in southern regions of Iran.
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇧🇭 NEW: At least several ground-to-ground missiles were fired from Bahrain towards southern Iran.
🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Southern Iran's Konarak naval base has been hit by several strikes.
🗣🇮🇷❗️— Iranian journalist Mehrdad Khalili: Areas targeted so far include Bandar Abbas, Qeshm, Konarak-Jask, Chabahar and Sirik.
🇺🇸🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡️ — The U.S. has issued updated security alerts for several other countries across the Middle East amid heightened regional tensions, including the UAE, Bahrain, Oman, and Qatar.
🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — A U.S. official told Axios' Barak Ravid that the U.S. Air Force is striking Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz region in response to Iranian attacks on vessels.
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Anti-ship missile launches from Iran towards U.S. warships in the Gulf of Oman.
↪ ❗️🇺🇸🇮🇷💥 UPDATE — BREAKING US official to Al Jazeera: American strikes on IRGC targets inside Iran are still ongoing.
🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — A U.S. official told Axios that the renewed strikes are intended to lower the threat of Iranian attacks against oil tankers, U.S. Navy vessels, and Air Force aircraft — an approach the official described as “mowing the lawn.”