US military carries out new strikes on Iranian targets
By Zachary Cohen, CNN
(CNN) — The US military carried out additional strikes against Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets in Iran on Tuesday, in response to recent attempted attacks against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and American troops deployed to the region, according to US Central Command.
“Today at 12 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran,” CENTCOM wrote in a post on X.
“The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region,” the post adds.
The new round of strikes come after the US and Iran traded attacks overnight into Monday — marking the first exchange of fire between the two countries in over a month.
At the time, Iran said it fired missiles toward US military targets in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates in retaliation for a US strike on Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island. The US said Iran was trying to launch sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz –– the shipping route that’s become the center of regional tensions and diplomatic efforts.
President Donald Trump said on Monday US actions in Iran will be “very limited” following the flare up in tensions this weekend.
“It’s very limited,” Trump said in the Oval Office, going on to list what he said were significant US military accomplishments over the course of the six-month war.
“Their navy is gone. Their air force is gone. Their surveillance equipment is almost entirely gone,” he said. “That doesn’t mean we won’t smack ‘em. We’ll see what happens.”
Trump insisted the Strait of Hormuz was in “extremely good shape” with many ships transiting, though tracking data show traffic remains significantly lower than before the war began.
Asked who was currently in charge in Tehran, Trump said it remained an open question.
“In my opinion, they don’t know who the leader is,” he said. “You have the radicals, but they’ve been wiped out from the standpoint of the military because the military is just a fraction of what it was.”
“I don’t really think they know who their leader is,” he said.
The earlier exchange of strikes sent global oil prices almost 3% higher and drove US stock indexes lower Monday. The attacks occurred days after Trump declared the Strait of Hormuz free from mines and marks a shift from Washington’s recent focus on maximizing economic pressure on Iran rather than using military might.
This story is breaking and will be updated.
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