For the fifth time in about two weeks, there was another clash between US and Iranian forces. “CENTCOM forces shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones that were launched toward the Strait of Hormuz. The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic. U.S. forces subsequently struck Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in Goruk and on Qeshm Island to defend against further attacks,” Centcom said in a statement on X last night at 6:48 PM ET.
Centcom later issued a second statement reporting that US forces “subsequently struck Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in Goruk and on Qeshm Island to defend against further maritime attacks,” in response to the drone launches. It added that “Initial assessments indicate six of the missiles launched by Iran were intercepted and a seventh did not reach its intended target. There are currently no reports of harm to U.S. personnel, and Iranian claims of damaging U.S. 5th fleet headquarters in Bahrain are false.”
The IRGC issued its own statement this morning. “At 01:30 AM today, four offending oil tankers, incited and guided by the US aggressor army, without coordination and without paying attention to the warnings of the IRGC Navy, intended to illegally exit the Strait of Hormuz. After a warning, one of the oil tankers was targeted and stopped, and the other offending vessels turned back,” the statement said, reported Tasnim.
“Following this incident at 2:00 AM, American drones hit a telecommunications tower in Qeshm and a tower in Sirik with two projectiles. In response to the aggression of the child-killing American army, two American air bases in Kuwait, named Ali al-Salem, and the remaining important facilities in the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, were immediately targeted by ballistic missiles from the IRGC Aerospace Force,” it added.
