\n The US military has destroyed 17 Iranian ships in its campaign against Iran, which involves tens of thousands of US service members, the commander of US forces in the Middle East said in a video Tuesday.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIn simple terms, we\u2019re focused on shooting all the things that can shoot at us,\u201d Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of US Central Command, said in the message posted to X<\/a>, detailing \u201cuncontested surgical strikes\u201d by B-2 and B-1 bombers<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cWe are also sinking the Iranian navy \u2014 the entire navy,\u201d he added. \u201cThus far, we\u2019ve destroyed 17 Iranian ships, including the most operational Iranian submarine that now has a hole in its side.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cFor decades, the Iranian regime has harassed international shipping. Today, there is not a single Iranian ship underway in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz or Gulf of Oman,\u201d Cooper said. \u201cAnd we will not stop.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Cooper\u2019s comments come four days into the US military operation against Iran, called Operation Epic Fury. Defense Department officials have said destroying Iran\u2019s navy is a primary target for the operation. There are more than 50,000 US troops and more than 200 fighter aircraft involved in the mission, Cooper said, and strikes are ongoing 24\/7.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cNow, we\u2019re less than 100 hours into this operation, and we\u2019ve already struck nearly 2,000 targets with more than 2,000 munitions,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n \n In retaliation to the US\u2019 and Israel\u2019s bombardment, Iran has launched more than 500 ballistic missiles and more than 2,000 drones, Cooper said. Still, he said Tehran\u2019s \u201cability to hit us is declining.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US military has destroyed 17 Iranian ships in its campaign against Iran, which involves tens of thousands…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,7788,21627,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-320784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-hnk","tag-intl","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}