killed two American service members<\/a> and\u00a0left one missing and four requiring hospitalisation.<\/p>\nAn area near Sirik in Iran\u2019s Hormozgan province and Qeshm Island have been hit on the eighth consecutive night of US air strikes on Iran, according to Iran\u2019s semi-official\u00a0 Mehr and Tasnim news agencies.<\/p>\n
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The attacks happened early on Sunday, hitting Sirik at 1:30am local time (22:00 GMT, Saturday), and Qeshm Island at about 3:38am (00:08 GMT, Sunday) and again at 6:10am local time (0240 GMT)\u00a0according to Iranian reports.<\/p>\n
Tasnim also said the US military targeted a location near Shadegan in Iran\u2019s Khuzestan province at 5:55am (02:25GMT Sunday).<\/p>\n
The reports said there were no casualties and that residential and commercial infrastructure was not damaged in the attacks.<\/p>\n
In a post on X, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said the US military launched new strikes \u201cdesigned to further degrade Iran\u2019s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz\u201d.<\/p>\n
The post added that strikes were also in retaliation for Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks on a US base in Jordan that killed the two US service members on Friday.<\/p>\n
US Central Command later said its strikes targeted \u201cIranian military coastal surveillance and air defense facilities, maritime capabilities, and missile and drone storage sites.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since the war began in February, 16 US service members have been killed and more than 430 wounded.<\/p>\n
The Tasnim news agency said there were reports of explosions in Qom, Arak and Behbahan that were later denied by local authorities.<\/p>\n
The governor of Arak said that \u201cthe situation is completely normal and so far we have not had any reports of attack or explosion\u201d.<\/p>\n
Iranian retaliatory strikes<\/p>\n
Tasnim news agency said the Iranian army targeted US military assets in two bases in Kuwait.<\/p>\n
A statement from Iran\u2019s military said, \u201cIn response to the repeated aggressions of the enemy\u201d, the army targeted a US \u201cammunition depot at Al-Adiri camp and the Patriot radar and air radar\u201d at the Ali Al Salem base in Kuwait.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnforgettable lessons\u201d<\/p>\n
Before the latest US strikes began, Iran\u2019s supreme leader warned of \u201cunforgettable lessons\u201d if the US continued its attacks on Iran.<\/p>\n
Initially, the battle focused on control of the Strait of Hormuz. But US strikes have now widened to include civilian infrastructure, including bridges and desalination plants for drinking water.<\/p>\n
State-run news agency IRNA said the Bonji desalination plant was destroyed, cutting off water supplies to about 10,000 people, and a desalination plant on strategic Qeshm Island inside the strait was damaged.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi told state television the US is violating terms of the interim deal and \u201cno longer implementing them\u201d.<\/p>\n
Iranian authorities said at least 50 people have been killed and more than 500 wounded in US strikes in the past three weeks.<\/p>\n
Late Saturday, the Iranian embassy in India named two girls \u2013 Sogand Dardmand and Fatemeh Zahra Akbari \u2013 who were among seven killed in a US strike on Bandar Khamir in southern Iran, which took place on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera\u2019s Tohid Asadi, reporting from Tehran, said that the last eight nights of US strikes on Iran have caused \u201canger\u201d and \u201cfrustration\u201d among the populace.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople don\u2019t really know whether they are going to see the continuation of this confrontation, or how long it\u2019s going to take, and also if there is a possibility for a diplomatic settlement to resolve all these complexities and find a long-lasting solution\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Central Command says new strikes on Iran are designed to further degrade Iran’s ability to choke the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,87,2286,47,43,40,38,41,39,1032,1156],"class_list":["post-548557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-jordan","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548557","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=548557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}