US attacks Iran for 10th consecutive night

Washington vows revenge for US subject casualties, portion Iran claims attacks connected US sites crossed the region.

The United States is carrying retired its 10th consecutive nighttime of attacks against Iran, with Iranian media reporting explosions successful Sirik, Bandar Abbas, Qeshm Island, and Isfahan.

US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the cognition connected Monday evening, claiming that the strikes are “designed to further degrade Iranian subject capabilities utilized to onslaught commercialized shipping successful the Strait of Hormuz”.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a connection claiming to person retaliated by launching ground-to-ground missiles astatine “US HIMARS rocket systems” stationed astatine Camp Arifjan successful Kuwait.

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Two Greek-owned lipid tankers successful the Strait of Hormuz were struck earlier connected Monday, portion the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which monitors attacks connected ships, reports that different tanker has been deed disconnected the seashore of Oman’s larboard metropolis of Limah.

Shortly earlier the night’s bombing began, US President Donald Trump took to societal media to pass that Iranian attacks connected US subject unit would beryllium paid backmost “many times over”. On Friday, 2 US soldiers were killed, and a 3rd was reported missing erstwhile an Iranian rocket struck a subject tract successful Jordan, portion different US work subordinate was killed successful bluish Iraq.

Trump besides reiterated earlier warnings that continued Iranian attacks connected commercialized vessels successful the Strait of Hormuz would beryllium met with a stronger response.

Meanwhile, Yemen’s pro-Iranian Houthis person declared a blockade connected Saudi Arabia, escalating tensions and sparking fears that the Yemeni conflict, which had been comparatively quiescent for 4 years, whitethorn beryllium astir to reignite and endanger shipping successful the Red Sea.