US strikes Iran for ninth straight night targeting missile and drone sites
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The United States has conducted nine consecutive nights of airstrikes on Iran, targeting military command centers, missile and drone launch sites, coastal surveillance systems, and maritime capabilities. The strikes are in response to what the US describes as Iranian aggression, including attacks on US troops in Jordan and Iraq.
On Sunday, the US military announced that it had completed the ninth consecutive night of strikes on Iran. The strikes targeted military command centers, missile and drone launch sites, coastal surveillance systems, and maritime capabilities to "further diminish Iran’s ability to attack commercial vessels and civilian mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz," according to a statement from the US Central Command.
The latest strikes came a day after a US soldier was killed in what was described as the controlled detonation of unexploded Iranian ordnance in northern Iraq. Meanwhile, air raid sirens sounded in Bahrain, and Kuwait said its air defenses responded to hostile drones as Iran retaliated against America's Gulf allies in the wake of the latest strikes.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned that “not a single drop of oil and gas” would pass through the Strait of Hormuz if what it called US “aggression” continued. The warning came after the Iranian military said it disabled two oil tankers trying to cross the strategic waterway without its permission, though the claim could not be independently verified.
The US military said the service member was killed in Iraq on Saturday during the “controlled detonation” of a downed Iranian drone. Earlier, the military said its strikes targeted Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard to retaliate for Friday's killing of troops in Jordan. One service member was missing after that attack, and the military's new statement said “unidentified remains” were found Sunday and were being examined.
Since the war began, 17 U.S. service members have been killed. The renewed exchanges of fire, now in their second week, have seen the U.S. target bridges, water desalination plants and electrical facilities in Iran. Tehran has hit U.S.-allied countries throughout the Middle East. Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain again activated air defenses for incoming Iranian drones and missiles. Israel warned that missiles launched toward neighboring Jordan could cause fire to spill over into Israeli territory for the first time in weeks.
The U.S. military’s Central Command said it hit “Iranian military coastal surveillance and air defense facilities, maritime capabilities and missile and drone storage sites.” It said the attack was designed to degrade Iran's ability to control the strait and “swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces,” a power base in Iran's theocracy that controls its ballistic missile arsenal.
Footage released by the U.S. military appeared to show strikes carried out by fighter jets and by Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from the sea. One target site appeared to be in a valley of a mountainous region. The Guard often has missile bases and other military equipment tucked into mountain ranges.
Iran’s atomic energy agency said U.S. strikes targeted the construction site of a planned nuclear power plant in the southwest, state television reported. Satellite images from Planet Labs PBC of the Darkhovin nuclear plant site showed earth clearing but little construction as of July 9.
Oil prices climbed above $90 a barrel amid fears of further disruption to shipping through the vital waterway.
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