US Central Command said Navy and Air Force fighter jets struck 10 Iranian military targets at several sites in and around the Strait of Hormuz overnight, in response to an Iranian drone attack on the oil tanker M/T Kiku.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) officially confirmed by name — for the first time in this thread — that Navy and Air Force fighter jets conducted overnight strikes on 10 Iranian military targets at multiple locations in and around the Strait of Hormuz. The confirmation at 10:20 Jerusalem (Sunday) marks the third consecutive night of American kinetic operations in the area, following a similar but less extensive CENTCOM strike reported at 09:00 Sunday and a wider round of strikes at 00:17 Sunday. The operation is in response to an Iranian one-way drone attack on the Panama-flagged oil tanker M/T Kiku, which was carrying 2 million barrels of oil, as The Zioneer reported in detail at 01:56 Sunday.
Reporting on this thread began in the earliest hours of Sunday (00:17 Jerusalem) with unverified Iranian-source reports of an attack on an IRGC naval base in Sirik. Within that hour, Israeli media (Channel 14) reported 10 strikes across Iran; CENTCOM then issued its first statement confirming strikes on 10 targets, and video footage of the operations circulated. At 09:00 Sunday, The Zioneer published a fuller bulletin noting the response was stronger than the previous night's strikes. The thread shows the corroboration ladder: unconfirmed social-media reports gave way to a senior US official's confirmation, then CENTCOM's own on-record statements, and now the first explicit naming of Navy and Air Force jets.
This sustained campaign follows weeks of escalating friction: CENTCOM had completed precision strikes across Iran on June 10 (as The Zioneer reported at 07:28 Jerusalem), and a senior US official confirmed active strikes near the Strait of Hormuz on June 26 (reported at 23:31 Jerusalem). Background reports also document US fighter jets and drones operating off Iran's southern coast on June 10 and a prior CENTCOM offensive near the Strait of Hormuz on June 9.
No official battle-damage assessment or information on Iranian casualties has been released. All details on the strikes' effects remain sourced to CENTCOM's own statement. It is also unclear whether Iran will conduct a retaliatory response, as it has after previous nights of US strikes in this thread (including claims of strikes on US bases in Bahrain and Kuwait).
17 developments
- DevelopingUS strikes prioritize Strait of Hormuz freedom of navigation, sources say
- ConfirmedUS targets around the Strait of Hormuz exposed to potential threats
- ConfirmedIRGC threatens imminent retaliation after US strikes near Strait of Hormuz
- DevelopingIranian Armed Forces confirm they are enforcing Strait of Hormuz blockade after explosions, Tasnim reports
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