Illustrative image. (U.S. Central Command)
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on July 15 that it had carried out another wave of strikes against Iran.
In a statement, the command said its forces launched precision munitions against coastal defense systems and cruise missile storage and launch sites on Greater Tunb Island during the 90-minute operation.
Located close to the Strait of Hormuz, Greater Tunb is one of several islands that play a key role in monitoring and controlling the strategic waterway. The United Arab Emirates, a top regional ally of the U.S., claims the island is wrongfully occupied by Iran.
The strikes were carried out to “further degrade Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” CENTCOM noted.
Overnight, dozens of U.S. strikes hit southern and southeastern Iran. The Islamic Republic responded by attacking American military facilities in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan.
Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB reported that CENTCOM launched 13 missiles at a residential area and accommodation facility at a barracks of the Iranian army’s ground forces in the city of Bampur, in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
Seven members of the 388th Brigade were killed and 13 others were injured in the attack, while several more were wounded and are receiving medical treatment, according to the broadcaster.
The Iranian army condemned the strike on the barracks in Bampur and vowed a “decisive response” to what it described as “U.S. aggression.”
A separate strike overnight hit a wheat storage silo and another site in southwestern Khuzestan province, Valiollah Hayati, Khuzestan’s deputy governor for security and law enforcement affairs, said. According to the provincial official, a wheat silo in Hoveyzeh County and another site in Dasht-e Azadegan County were struck.
CENTCOM did not address the deadly strike on the barracks in Bampur but denied targeting a civilian wheat storage facility in Hoveyzeh.
The current confrontation, which began more than a week ago, threatens the memorandum of understanding signed by the U.S. and Iran last week. There are no signs of imminent de-escalation, however. In fact, the U.S. President has warned that strikes will continue and that civilian infrastructure and energy facilities in the Islamic Republic will be targeted in the future.
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the mou is dead. iran needs to realize this.
you’d better ring them up and remind them then. 💩. 😀.
iranians will be mourning their civilization soon…heheheh
i hope there’s no one around you when lightning strikes and fries your clown 🤡 @ss.
your daughter is always with me, playing with my kosher long sausage…heheheh
do not worry folk this trolls income and economy is going to suffer from global depression
jooz will be wailing everywhere, not just their fake wailing wall! heheheheh
i’m not understanding why all iranian forces aren’t dug into bomb proof facilities as much as possible. especially sleeping quarters. you know how this enemy operates. you know they love to bomb from the air and use long range cruise missiles. why are you not dug in?
iran has been mourning from wars and sanctions for decades. any bombardment by the epstine class only strengthens resolve to survive. a simple truth washington war pigs ignore in ignorance. military policy think tanks the drive the us into globalist conflicts are highly educated idiots
a single explosion recorded from 4 different angles.
soon one of these idiots (orange bozo) will start hitting iranian critical infrastructure that is very necessary…like power stations. iran will then, sooner or later, hit their desal plants. that’s when u.s. arab allies are done with no coming back. the u.s. is issuing their death warrant when it does this. iran should have done this to israel long ago. no water for gaza, no water for the invaders.
gaza has not had enough water for years
centcom lies and shite from bullwankers. 💩💩💩=🇺🇲