The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on July 8 that its forces have begun launching strikes against Iran in response to attacks on three commercial vessels that were transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
In a statement, the command said that the “powerful strikes” are meant to “impose heavy costs” on the Islamic Republic “for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway.”
“Iran’s demonstrated aggression was unwarranted, dangerous, and a clear violation of the ceasefire,” CENTCOM added.
A U.S. official later told Reuters that the strikes hit Iranian air defense systems, coastal surveillance systems, surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship cruise missiles and drone launch sites.
Iran’s state-run TV reported that at least ten explosions were heard in areas west and east of the port city of Bandar Abbas in the southern province of Hormozgan, with several more explosions heard from the sea.
The report said no explosions were heard inside the city itself, but blasts were still being heard in Sirik County, also located in Hormozgan. It also said that explosions were heard on Qeshm Island, adding that it was unclear what targets had been hit.
Over the past 24 hours, Iran was accused of attacking three commercial vessels, including a Qatari liquified natural gas tankers and a Saudi oil supertanker, close to the Strait of Hormuz. The vessels were reportedly passing through the Strait’s Omani route, which the Islamic Republic previously warned against using.
The U.S. revoked a general license that authorized the sale of Iranian oil in an initial response to the attacks near the strategic waterway.
The U.S. agreed to temporarily lift the sanctions as a part of the memorandum of understanding to end the war which was signed earlier that month. Under the deal, Iran also agreed to guarantee the safe passage of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.
According to a U.S. official cited by The New York Times, the ongoing wave of strikes against Iran is expected to continue, focusing on a series of military targets.
Iran will certainly respond, although this may not happen immediately so as not to disturb the funeral of late supreme leader Ali Khamenei, which is entering its final day.
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this is a forever war. the us is ready to send in mitch mcconnell to represent israel in the next peace talk media solution.
iran can now close the straits, citing constant breaches of the mou by the jooz and their amerikunt whores. all it has to do is dump a few mines near oman. squeeze chump’s nuts. kick his ass. take out any ships the amerikunts try to sneak through. make them pay for every child they have murdered. bigly.
trump the america last rich boy ran out of time, just as bad as obama bush or clinton.
bush before bush and then all that subservient behavior goes back to bush installed regan. carter or ford were last of americans.
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nine countries commit to global defence bank, canada says
by jonathan spicer, iain withers and marc jones
july 7, 20263:40 pm gmt+2updated 9 hours ago
nato leaders’ summit in ankara
ankara, turkiye – july 07: canadian prime minister mark carney and his wife, diana fox carney, arrive at ankara airport to attend the 36th nato heads of state and government summit in ankara, turkey, on july 07, 2026. muhammed abdullah kurtar/pool via reuters purchase licensing rights,
pay traitor putler. now is the time for you to pay and for all of russia to pay.i want the destruction and complete disintegration of russia. it is nice that ankara is the place where the destruction of traitorous russia began. the place to begin the destruction of traitorous russia could not have been better chosen. the price for syria’s betrayal is coming.
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ankara/london, july 7 (reuters) – nine countries have committed to a new global defence bank, canadian prime minister mark carney said on tuesday, in a boost for the multilateral drive to help rearm allied nations.
zionist distractors appear to be flooding the comments with garbage.
they clearly do not want others to comment and people to read them, coz they know everyone will slam washington and israel.
carney said in a statement at the nato summit in turkey’s capital ankara that albania, belgium, greece, latvia, luxembourg, romania, turkey and ukraine had all pledged their support to the defence, security and resilience bank (dsrb), which will be based in canada.
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the ro ter con tained no heavy weight g 7 n atio ns oth er than can ada, potent ially li miting the ban k ‘s financial fi re po wer, altho ugh ca nada’s foreign minister, anita anand, told reuters it would remain open to new members. “thi s is a beginning, but they may have been hoping for the backing of bigger eu ropea n pla yers. in principle they can get this airborne with these comm itments,” said linus terhorst, an analyst at defe nce think tank roy al unit ed se rvice
ankara/london, july 7 (reuters) – nine countries have committed to a new global defence bank, canadian prime minister mark carney said on tuesday, in a boost for the multilateral drive to help rearm allied nations.
carney said in a statement at the nato summit in turkey’s capital ankara that albania, belgium, greece, latvia, luxembourg, romania, turkey and ukraine had all pledged their support to the defence, security and resilience bank (dsrb), which will be based in canada.
many powerful mulatto jizz incel strikes on my americunt anuz yesterday derp derp
iran territorial waters are to be managed by iran persian gulf strait authority. usil does not want to recognize the other side as legitimate so there can be no serious deal. in fact that is usil that is so fake so disgustingly biased. usil violates agreements and cease fire thousands of times. still they claim it is a ‘fragile’ cease fire. as soon as there is a retaliation they claim it ended the deal.
acabem com a monarquia saudita de mbs. esse reinado tirano tem que ser morto arábia saudita ter um governo pro-irã. matem a monarquia saudita corrupta sionista e terrorista de bin salman
it would be good to know where these us attacks or originating from, which bases of its gulf vassals is the us flying? i hope iran bombs the crap out of them little bitches.