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The US military says it is carrying out the seventh night of strikes on Iran since US President Donald Trump declared the temporary ceasefire agreement was “over”.<\/b><\/p>\n
“The strikes are designed to continue degrading Iranian military capabilities at the Commander in Chief’s direction,” the US military Central Command (Centcom) said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said two oil tankers had exploded in the Strait of Hormuz while passing through a mined part of the shipping channel – a claim later dismissed as false by Centcom.<\/p>\n
Iranian media reported that explosions were heard in the central city of Yazd and at Qeshm island and the port of Bandar Abbas next to the strait.<\/p>\n
Iran’s state-run Fars agency said two oil tankers “exploded and caught fire while passing through a mined route south of the Strait of Hormuz”.<\/p>\n
Later Centcom posted on X: “Like most IRGC claims, this is false.”<\/p>\n
Shipping traffic in the vital Strait of Hormuz has largely stopped amid the continuing tit-for-tat strikes by US and Iranian forces. In normal times the strait accounts for about one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas supplies.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Iran’s armed forces claimed to have attacked multiple US military facilities across the Gulf region in Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and \u2013 for the first time \u2013 Syria, which the US denied.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Kuwaiti officials said Iranian drone strikes had injured a number of their soldiers, while a power plant and water desalination stations had also been damaged.<\/p>\n
Sources have told the BBC’s US partner CBS news that several American service members were injured during Iranian attacks on two Jordanian bases over the past week.<\/p>\n
Washington denied Tehran’s earlier claims that its forces hit civilian infrastructure in Iran, including bridges, a train station and an airport. Provincial authorities in the affected region, Hormozgan province, said seven people were killed in the attacks.<\/p>\n
BBC Verify and BBC Persian have verified footage of damage to Gariveh Bridge, after night videos showed a ball of flames on top of it.<\/p>\n
Daylight images showed a crumbled stretch of road with rubble around the broken bridge.<\/p>\n
A White House spokesperson told the BBC the US had “carried out strikes exclusively on military targets, including military logistics infrastructure”.<\/p>\n
Friday marks one week of nightly US attacks since peace talks with Iran collapsed, as tensions over the future of the Strait of Hormuz hampered efforts to broker a permanent ceasefire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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