A senior US official confirmed to Channel 12 that American strikes on Iran have ended, according to the channel's desk chief. The report comes from a single, albeit official, source.
A senior US official has confirmed to Channel 12 that American military strikes on Iran have ended, according to the channel's desk chief. The confirmation, reported at around 00:52 Jerusalem on Saturday, follows more than an hour after the US military acknowledged it was actively striking Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz, citing Iranian ceasefire violations (The Zioneer, Fri Jun 26, 23:10 Jerusalem). The new statement marks the first on-record acknowledgment from the US side that the operation has concluded, though it rests on a single official source.
The thread of reporting on these strikes unfolded rapidly late Friday. At 23:10 Jerusalem, initial reports from Iranian media described three explosions near the Strait of Hormuz and the port of Sirik (The Zioneer, version 1). Within minutes, Israeli journalist Asaf Rozentzweig (N12) confirmed the explosion reports (version 2), and further Iranian media identified the blasts specifically near Sirik (version 3). A senior US official then told journalist Barak Ravid that the US military was striking Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz area (version 4). That same US official's confirmation — that the strikes had in fact ended — was then carried by Channel 12's desk chief, completing the arc from unverified blast reports to official US acknowledgment of both the strikes' occurrence and their conclusion. This mirrors an earlier pattern: over the past weeks, unverified claims of US strikes gave way to official confirmations, and initial reports of a first wave concluded were followed by expectations of further waves (The Zioneer, Thu Jun 11, 01:34 Jerusalem).
6 developments
- DevelopingAmerican strikes on Iran have ended, Iranian sources say
- DevelopingAirstrikes on Iran have ended, with speculation they supported earlier waves
- ConfirmedUS official to CNN: Strikes on Iran were a warning, unlikely to harm negotiations
- DevelopingUS official: Iranian strikes caused no US casualties or significant damage to facilities
Source and signal
- Internal intake