US launches another round of attacks on Iran

Targets crossed confederate Iran hit, including connected strategical Qeshm Island.

The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) says it has launched a “heavy question of strikes against Iran”, pursuing Iranian rocket attacks connected US forces a time earlier.

It claimed to person deed dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets aboriginal connected Thursday, according to a statement posted connected X, including “military bid centres, rocket and drone facilities, coastal surveillance and defence sites, and maritime capabilities”.

The strikes came hours aft US President Donald Trump promised to deed Iran, “very hard”, aft it targeted a basal successful Jordan wherever US troops are stationed.

Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar said these latest strikes are “concentrated successful Iran’s confederate provinces, peculiarly those on the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz”, akin to the US attacks during a caller 13-day campaign.

Iranian officials accidental a residential gathering connected Qeshm Island was hit, with 3 radical trapped nether the rubble, and 2 injured radical taken to hospital.

The explosions were heard arsenic acold arsenic the larboard metropolis of Bandar Abbas successful Hormozgan province, starring to archetypal reports that the larboard was hit.

The land has experienced powerfulness outages, and authorities are moving to reconstruct energy and region debris, the officials said.

A lawman information curate successful Khuzestan state told Iran’s authorities broadcaster IRIB that US forces targeted “some locations successful Abadan”.

Iran’s semi-official Tasnim quality bureau reported US strikes connected the outskirts of the metropolis of Kazerun successful the southwestern Fars province, arsenic good arsenic 2 large explosions connected the land of Kish successful the Gulf.

Authorities accidental operations astatine Kish island’s airdrome and rider ferry services stay unaffected.

The IRGC said that arsenic agelong arsenic Washington’s threats continue, Tehran’s absorption volition besides continue.

US President Donald Trump successful the Oval Office connected July 29, 2026 [AFP]

Ryan Bohl, a elder Middle East expert with RANE network, says the US has 2 apt escalation options.

“The archetypal is the repetition of what America was doing anterior to past Friday, which is focusing connected targets and infrastructure related to Iran’s blockade of Hormuz,” helium said.

“Or it could beryllium an escalation towards the bridges and powerfulness works strategy that President Trump has repeatedly threatened implicit and implicit again.”

The US is anxious to extremity Iran’s power of the Strait of Hormuz, done which a ample percent of planetary lipid shipping passes.

Earlier, Iran rejected an Omani connection connected co-managing shipping routes done the strait.

The US Treasury Department announced caller sanctions connected Wednesday connected 2 Iranian firms it said are integral to an IRGC-backed “scheme” that forces commercialized vessels to bargain security to transit Hormuz.

“The United States volition not let Iran to clasp planetary commerce hostage oregon usage planetary shipping to concern the IRGC’s terrorism, aggression, and repression,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote connected X.

CENTCOM claimed the latest strikes aimed to “further diminish threats posed by Iran and its proxies to American forces, commercialized shipping, and neighboring Gulf nations”.

Former Pentagon authoritative David Des Roches told Al Jazeera that the latest US strikes were “not a precise overwhelming attack”, adding that Trump is perhaps, “trying to support things proportionate, oregon to support things unfastened for diplomacy”.