US Central Command released aerial footage Saturday showing a precision hit on a communications tower at the IRGC Navy’s Shahid Raahbar Naval Base near Sirik, on Iran's southern coast. The video accompanies official confirmation of the US retaliatory strike wave against Iranian missile, drone, and radar sites — a direct response to Iran's June 25 drone attack on the Singapore-flagged tanker M/V Ever Lovely in the Strait of Hormuz.
US Central Command released aerial footage at 21:46 Saturday evening showing a precision strike on a communications tower at the IRGC Navy's Shahid Raahbar Naval Base near Sirik, on Iran's southern coast. The video provides independent visual confirmation of damage to a specific IRGC facility, publicly corroborating earlier US claims of a retaliatory strike wave that began Friday overnight. The release comes hours after the first wave of strikes — which The Zioneer reported at 20:58 Saturday as targeting missile depots, drone facilities, and coastal radar installations — and follows a second commercial vessel being struck by an Iranian drone off Oman's coast Saturday evening, as The Zioneer reported at 20:39.
The Zioneer first reported the US retaliatory strikes at Sat 20:58 Jerusalem, when CENTCOM announced it had struck Iranian missile depots, drone storage facilities, and coastal radar sites as a response to Iran's June 25 suicide drone attack on the Singapore-flagged tanker M/V Ever Lovely in the Strait of Hormuz. Earlier, at 07:33 Jerusalem on Saturday, The Zioneer had published CENTCOM's identification of the targeted vessel as the M/V Ever Lovely and the strike location near Sirik. A background article published at Fri Jun 26, 23:46 Jerusalem had earlier described CENTCOM targeting missile and drone sites near Sirik after the tanker attack.
As The Zioneer reported in background coverage, the wider confrontation began on June 9-10 with a series of US strikes and Iranian retaliatory claims — including an IRGC threat of imminent retaliation and an Iranian claim of a drone attack on the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain — which US officials said were nearly all intercepted. The current tit-for-tat escalation follows President Trump's description of Iran's June 25 action as a "foolish violation."
The CENTCOM footage released at 21:46 did not include casualty assessments or additional damage estimates beyond the communications tower. No independent verification of the extent of damage to the Shahid Raahbar base has been published beyond the single video clip.
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