US bombs Iran for ninth consecutive night as Hormuz tensions escalate

Iranian media study blasts successful cities successful the acold northbound and acold south, including Tabriz and Chabahar.

The United States has launched strikes connected Iran for a ninth consecutive night, with Iranian media reporting explosions successful aggregate cities, including Sirik, Jask, Tabriz and Chabahar.

The attacks connected Monday came arsenic the US subject announced the death of a 3rd soldier successful caller days and arsenic a month-old ceasefire statement betwixt Tehran and Washington unravelled amid a conflict for power of the Strait of Hormuz.

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In a statement, the US subject said the latest strikes were aimed astatine “degrading Iranian subject capabilities utilized to onslaught commercialized vessels and mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz”.

Iran’s IRIB authorities broadcaster said respective explosions were heard successful the larboard cities of Mahshahr and Imam Khomeini, successful the southwestern Khuzestan province. It reported further explosions adjacent the cities of Sirik and Jask successful the Hormozgan state connected Iran’s confederate coast, arsenic good arsenic adjacent the metropolis of Khvormuj successful the Bushehr province.

Three explosions were besides heard adjacent the metropolis of Tabriz successful northwestern Iran, IRIB added, portion aerial defences were activated successful the southeastern cities of Konarak and Chabahar successful the Sistan and Baluchestan province, according to the semi-official Fars quality agency.

Tehran promises retaliation

Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi, reporting from the Iranian capital, Tehran, said the latest US strikes had again targeted Iran’s confederate coast. He added that the explosions successful Tabriz, if confirmed, people the archetypal clip the northwestern metropolis has travel nether onslaught since the caller escalation began.

“We are having yet different nighttime of speech of fire,” helium said. “The Iranian broadside is besides talking astir retaliatory strikes, with Iranian media reporting a caller question of missiles from the state of Lorestan targeting US subject assets crossed the region.”

Earlier, Kuwait reported confronting “hostile drone threats”, portion aerial raid sirens sounded successful Bahrain for a 2nd clip connected Sunday. Sirens besides sounded successful Jordan, wherever the subject said it changeable down 3 Iranian missiles. Kuwait’s authorities said a desalination plant had been attacked for the 2nd time moving connected Sunday, causing a fire, successful what it said was a nonstop onslaught connected captious civilian infrastructure.

Both Iran and the US person besides taken purpose astatine shipping traffic, with Washington saying it is enforcing a naval blockade connected Iranian ports, and Tehran saying it targets vessels violating its rules connected navigating the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said connected Sunday that 4 vessels had attempted to transit the strait via an “unsafe route” with US backing aft ignoring IRGC warnings. It said 2 had abandoned the attempt, portion the different 2 were progressive successful an “accident”. It did not elaborate.

US Central Command (CENTCOM) said it has redirected six commercialized vessels and disabled different vessel to guarantee “full compliance” with its blockade.

Earlier, CENTCOM besides said that an American worker was killed successful bluish Iraq connected Saturday during a “controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance” from a downed Iranian drone. It added that “unidentified remains” had been recovered astatine the tract of a deadly Iranian onslaught successful Jordan connected Friday and that “an introspection process to verify the remains is ongoing”.

Two US soldiers died successful Friday’s attack, portion a 3rd was reported missing successful action.

The latest deaths bring the fig of US work members killed since the warfare began to 17, portion much than 420 person been wounded.

The conflict, which began erstwhile the US and Israel attacked Iran connected February 28, has killed thousands of people, mostly successful Iran and Lebanon, and led to large disruptions to vigor supplies and fears implicit planetary inflation.