US Central Command said its fighter jets struck 10 Iranian military sites in and around the Strait of Hormuz overnight, in response to an Iranian drone attack on the M/T Kiku tanker. The strikes mark a significant expansion of US retaliatory operations against Iranian military infrastructure near the waterway.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that its Navy and Air Force fighter aircraft struck 10 Iranian military sites in several locations in and near the Strait of Hormuz overnight Sunday, in retaliation for an Iranian one-way attack drone that hit the Panama-flagged oil tanker M/T Kiku.
The strikes represent the latest and largest US offensive action in the waterway since the tanker attack. As The Zioneer reported, CENTCOM had previously struck Iranian drone infrastructure and surveillance sites after the same incident, and earlier intercepted Iranian suicide drones targeting commercial shipping in the strait.
No further details on the specific sites targeted, or on battle damage assessment, were provided by CENTCOM in this statement. The operation follows a pattern of escalating US responses to Iranian harassment of commercial vessels in the strategic strait, through which about a fifth of the world's oil transits.
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