U.S. Central Command confirmed additional self-defense strikes across Iran on Sunday, stating that Iran had been given a chance to honor the ceasefire following yesterday's strikes but elected not to, according to the Times of Israel. The military said the strikes targeted assets that threatened U.S. forces and commercial shipping.
U.S. Central Command confirmed additional self-defense strikes across Iran late Saturday night, stating that Tehran "had a chance to honor the ceasefire but elected not to" — a rationale attributed by the Times of Israel to a U.S. official and tied to a fresh Iranian attack on the Panamanian-flagged oil tanker M/T Kiku earlier Saturday. CENTCOM's announcement, published around Sunday midnight, marks the third U.S. strike wave this week and follows a timeline in which Washington had already conducted strikes on Friday, June 26, as The Zioneer reported at 23:55 Jerusalem, and an expanded round early Sunday at 00:48 Jerusalem targeting radars, communications, air defense, drone storage, and mine-laying capabilities.
Earlier on Friday (June 26, 23:43 Jerusalem), the U.S. military had condemned Iran's attack on a ship as "unjustified aggression" that violated the ceasefire. On June 10, The Zioneer reported that Iran's Foreign Ministry had claimed the initial U.S. strikes rendered the ceasefire "unworkable" (published 11:05 Jerusalem), and an analyst flagged that the U.S. justifications had shifted to a broader "Iranian aggressiveness" rationale (June 11, 10:22 Jerusalem). The thread shows a sequence: an initial U.S. precision strike wave on June 10, followed by Iranian retaliation on U.S. bases that was nearly all intercepted (June 10, 06:18 Jerusalem), and then a cycle of ship attacks and American responses that intensified over the past week.
Against this backdrop, as The Zioneer reported on June 11, CENTCOM had conducted an initial wave of precision strikes across Iran targeting surveillance, communications, and air defense sites. The Pentagon has described the operations as self-defense against threats to U.S. forces and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
No specific target list or damage assessment for the latest strikes has been released by CENTCOM. The precise scope of the current operation — and whether it constitutes a distinct escalation or part of the expanded round reported at 00:48 — remains unclear.
5 developments
- StrongCENTCOM completes additional precision strikes across Iran
- StrongUS expands airstrikes on southern Iran as Israel prepares for possible Hezbollah response
- DevelopingReport: Second wave of US strikes hits southern Iran as new explosions heard
- StrongUS military strikes Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz
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