The US military said it bombed Iranian military surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and naval mine-laying capabilities in its latest wave of strikes, according to a statement carried by multiple outlets.
The US military has specified the targets of its latest wave of strikes against Iranian military infrastructure, announcing that Sunday's operation struck surveillance systems, communication networks, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and naval mine-laying equipment. The statement, carried by multiple outlets, comes after hours of sustained operations that the desk has been tracking since the initial confirmation of strikes near the Strait of Hormuz at 23:13 Jerusalem on Friday.
The current escalation unfolded rapidly over a single evening on Friday, June 26. The desk first reported unverified accounts of strikes near the Strait of Hormuz and an explosion in Tehran (version 9, 23:13 Jerusalem), followed by a Hebrew-language security source's report of limited strikes in the same area. Within the hour, a senior US official confirmed to journalist Barak Ravid that American forces were actively striking Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz (versions 5–8, 23:13). CENTCOM later formally confirmed the strikes were a response to an earlier Iranian attack on an oil tanker and specified that the targets included surveillance infrastructure, communications systems, air defense, drone storage, and naval mine-laying capabilities (versions 12–14, 23:13).
As The Zioneer has reported, the strikes on Friday and Sunday follow a broader campaign of American operations against Iranian infrastructure: the desk reported at 00:57 Jerusalem that the initial wave targeted similar categories, and at 23:55 Jerusalem on June 26, Fox News reported, citing officials, that operations were ongoing. Separately, Israeli strikes on Chinese-supplied Iranian air defense systems were reported by the desk on June 8.
The White House and Pentagon have not yet detailed the specific locations or the extent of damage from this latest wave. Iranian state media has not issued an immediate comment, and it remains unverified whether the mine-laying sites were operational at the time of the strike.
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