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United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on July 17 that its forces destroyed a maritime control tower at Iran’s Chabahar Shahid Kalantari Port a day earlier.
“On July 16, US forces successfully destroyed the Chah Bahar Shahid Kalantari Port surveillance tower, part of a maritime surveillance network along Iran’s Gulf of Oman coastline used for decades by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to track and target commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz,” the command said on X.
“The destruction of the tower directly degrades IRGC’s ability to coordinate attacks on innocent civilian crew members,” it added.
The command noted that the strike was intended to protect freedom of navigation in regional waters for commercial shipping, while noting that vessels attempting to violate the ongoing U.S. naval blockade against Iran would not be covered by those protections.
The Chah Bahar Shahid Kalantari Port tower, which overlooks the Strait of Hormuz, had been hit by U.S. strikes at least twice previously, sustaining heavy damage.
Iran’s state-run IRNA confirmed the collapse of the tower before CENTCOM’s announcement but did not report any casualties.
The agency said cargo loading and unloading operations at Shahid Kalantari Port are expected to resume shortly and that port services will continue.
The largely symbolic strike will not affect Iranian military operations in the Strait of Hormuz. The tower was likely evacuated even before it was struck the first time.
Still, the U.S. strike represents another attack on civilian infrastructure in Iran, and because of that, the Islamic Republic is likely to respond.
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an iranian on a camel with infrared / regular binoculars and a radio can easily survey and request targeting from disguised locations. slop media will declare the us has won the war with this wastefulness.
yet target shaping is a pre ground invasion tatic. if they land it will only be for media psy opps to repeat in slop media. what globalist false flags are in planning or execution right now ? and how many ?
yes, that is right. but up in the mountain, and only that one pike has four towers. reliable sources. many, many antenas like thousand of those cant be distinguished from a spruce tree, because there are artificial ones, and real ones that antenas re in later case right next to the tree. old school-best school.
i juat don’t know how many spruces are growing up the mountain…much more than america has bombs and tomahawk cruise missiles.
we are destroying iran!!!
heheheh
chumpo and the amerikunt chimpanzees are scampering around throwing turds about to try to impress their joo organ grinder! all it takes to control hormuz is one guy on a donkey with a pair of binoculars and a mobile phone! the straits are sealed shut tighter than a duck’s a**e! heheheheh
whatever boulder you’re living under i hope it collapses on your clown 🤡 @ss.
and we are annihilating ukraine, iran is twice the size of ukraine and has a population of 93 million, good luck to the epstein assets attempting the destruction of iran…hehehe
a resposta será um terremoto contra os eua adeus americanos