U.S. claims war over, attacks continue
Thursday’s U.S. airstrikes hit Iranian “missile and drone launch sites, command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance nodes,” according to CENTCOM. A U.S. official told CNN that the strikes were on locations including Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island.
Iran, however, said the airstrikes hit civilian areas on the coasts of Qeshm Island, Bandar Khamir, and Sirik, according to Iranian state media. Commercial facilities at Qeshm’s Bahman Pier experienced an “explosion” during an exchange of fire between Iranian security forces and “the enemy,” Iranian state media reported.
On Wednesday, U.S. forces also disabled an Iranian-flagged oil tanker, the M/T Hasna, in the Gulf of Oman that had allegedly been sailing towards an Iranian port. Earlier this week, the U.S. and Iran traded attacks with the U.S. saying Iran had damaged a South Korean cargo vessel during “Project Freedom” and that American forces sunk seven Iranian patrol boats. Iran denied both claims.
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