Iran's Red Crescent says a separate strike hit a wedding party in southern Iran, killing five people.
Iranian officials said the strikes caused significant damage, including killing four people and injuring several dozens at a wedding. Iran said it retaliated by firing on U.S. bases in the region.
In our news wrap Tuesday, the U.S. struck targets inside Iran in response to what it called attempted attacks against ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial spent a fourth day deliberating, telling the judge at one point that they were struggling to reach a unanimous decision and John Ternus has taken over as Apple's new CEO.
The US launched a fresh wave of strikes against targets in Iran, extending a back-and-forth of fighting with neither side prepared to cede control over the Strait of Hormuz.
United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced that U.S. forces struck Iranian targets after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attempted to attack commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
“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 in a statement.
The U.S. military attacked two Iranian government tankers as part of the round of strikes that took place on Tuesday, U.S. officials said. Why it matters: This is the first time the U.S. military has struck Iranian tankers in retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz — rather than to prevent them from violating the naval blockade. A…
U.S. forces completed another wave of strikes against Iran on Tuesday stateside, hitting multiple Revolutionary Guard sites across the country.
The video showed US strikes hammering Iranian targets across a 300-mile stretch of coastline of the Strait of Hormuz as Trump boasted that Tehran's economy was collapsing.
