US Central Command said American fighter jets struck 10 Iranian targets overnight in the Strait of Hormuz area, in response to an Iranian attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman the previous day. The tanker was carrying 2 million barrels of oil. The response was stronger than the previous night's strikes, according to a security-focused channel.
The United States struck 10 Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz for the second consecutive night, according to CENTCOM — a response to an Iranian attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman the previous day, which was carrying 2 million barrels of oil. The operation was described as 'stronger' than the first night's strikes by a security-focused channel. The strikes were confirmed in a CENTCOM statement received before dawn Sunday (09:00 Jerusalem), marking the latest escalation in the ongoing cycle of retaliation between Washington and Tehran.
The thread began overnight (as The Zioneer reported in successive bulletins from earlier Sunday, 00:17 Jerusalem), with initial unverified reports of drone sounds off the coast of Sirik, followed by explosion reports, then unconfirmed accounts of an attack on an IRGC naval base there. By 00:17, multiple published items confirmed the US had struck 10 targets — including air-defense systems, drone sites, and mine-laying capabilities — and that Iran retaliated by striking US bases in Bahrain and Kuwait, with no casualties reported. A separate bulletin at 01:17 explicitly framed the initial US wave as a response to the tanker attack. The second wave now confirmed by CENTCOM appears to have doubled the scale of some earlier salvos.
The backdrop includes a sustained US campaign against Iranian military infrastructure in the Strait of Hormuz since early June, as The Zioneer reported. On June 11, the US completed another four-hour wave of strikes; President Trump then threatened renewed bombing if no deal was reached, and Iran announced the closure of the strait. Iran had also previously claimed missile and drone strikes on US warships (June 10), and the US struck an oil tanker attempting to break the naval blockade that same day.
It remains unclear whether Iran has retaliated against the second night's strikes — no official Iranian response was included in CENTCOM's confirmation. The status of the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran announced its closure of on June 11, also remains a critical open question affecting global energy markets.
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