Explosions were reported in several parts of Iran early on Tuesday after the US military launched a fresh wave of strikes on targets in the country.<\/p>\n
Iranian news agency Tasnim reported explosions in Konarak, in the south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan and in the port city of Chabahar on the Gulf of Oman.<\/p>\n
Iranian state broadcaster Press TV also reported US strikes near the city of Shiraz in south-central Iran, while the Fars news agency said several explosions had been heard around Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz and near the southern city of Bandar Abbas.<\/p>\n
Earlier, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on social media platform X that the strikes began at 11:30 pm local time in Iran on Monday (2000 GMT), but did not disclose the specific targets.<\/p>\n
“The strikes are designed to further degrade Iranian military capabilities used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” CENTCOM said.<\/p>\n
The strikes marked the 10th consecutive night of US attacks on targets in Iran after Tehran carried out retaliatory strikes against countries hosting US military bases in the region.<\/p>\n
Tanker struck in Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a tanker was struck by an unidentified projectile in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Oman, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said, a day after another vessel caught fire following an attack in the same area.<\/p>\n
UKMTO said on X that the incident occurred about 8 nautical miles (15 kilometres) north-east of Limah, Oman.<\/p>\n
Iran has demanded that ships use a route along its coastline through the Strait of Hormuz and has repeatedly said that only the route designated by Tehran is safe.<\/p>\n
The dispute over navigation through the strategic waterway, a key transit route for global oil, gas and fertilizer shipments, has become a central flashpoint in the escalating conflict between the United States and Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explosions were reported in several parts of Iran early on Tuesday after the US military launched a fresh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[444,34,40090,39,5417,101],"class_list":["post-215730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-gulf-of-oman","tag-iran","tag-iranian-military-capabilities","tag-persian-gulf","tag-reported","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116955407044519482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}