The US military announced that fighter jets struck Iranian military surveillance infrastructure, communications systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and naval mine-laying capabilities. The strikes were in response to Iran's earlier attack on an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. Additional strikes were reported on Qeshm Island and the port cities of Bandar Lengeh and Bandar Kong, according to Iranian reports.
The US military announced that fighter jets struck Iranian military surveillance infrastructure, communications systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and naval mine-laying capabilities early Sunday, directly framing the operation as retaliation for Iran's attack on an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz earlier Saturday. Iranian reports added that strikes hit Qeshm Island and the port cities of Bandar Lengeh and Bandar Kong, expanding the geographic scope beyond the previously reported Sirik area.
As The Zioneer first reported at 00:55 Jerusalem, US aircraft struck Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz, including a telecommunications tower near Sirik for the second time that night. Over the following minutes—at 00:29 Jerusalem across multiple updates—the reported a rapidly unfolding sequence: initial explosions near Sirik port, a third wave hitting an IRGC naval base and radar installations near Tahrui village, a Hebrew-language security source reporting additional strikes, and confirmation that communications systems and mine-laying capabilities were targeted. The final thread item at 00:29 Jerusalem carried the Pentagon's confirmation that strikes hit surveillance, air defense, and drone storage sites—a scope that the current US military statement has now formalized.
The US military's rationale for the strikes, as The Zioneer reported at 01:12 Jerusalem, was set in motion by a one-way attack drone hitting a Panama-flagged tanker—an escalation that CENTCOM cited as the trigger for this campaign.
No damage assessments or casualty figures were immediately available. The US statement did not specify whether the operation is concluded or ongoing, and Iranian state media had not commented as of the latest thread items.
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