U.S. claims war over, attacks continue<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s U.S. airstrikes hit Iranian \u201cmissile and drone launch sites, command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance nodes,\u201d according to CENTCOM. A U.S. official told CNN<\/a> that the strikes were on locations including Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s Bahman Pier experienced an \u201cexplosion\u201d during an exchange of fire between Iranian security forces and \u201cthe enemy,\u201d Iranian state media reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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 \u201cProject Freedom\u201d and that American forces sunk seven Iranian patrol boats. Iran denied both claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. claims war over, attacks continue Thursday\u2019s U.S. airstrikes hit Iranian \u201cmissile and drone launch sites, command and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[774,28423,77354,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-945876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-news-desk","10":"tag-overnight","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116538523466477394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}