{"id":551299,"date":"2026-07-20T22:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/551299\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:45:19","slug":"us-centcom-begins-tenth-night-of-strikes-on-iran-explosions-heard-in-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/551299\/","title":{"rendered":"US CENTCOM begins tenth night of strikes on Iran, explosions heard in south"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced in an X\/Twitter post that a new round of strikes designed to &#8220;further degrade Iranian military capabilities used to attack shipping in the Strait of Hormuz&#8221; began on Monday.\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CENTCOM\/status\/2079299384685064351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Deputy Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran Ali Bakri-Kani said on Monday that &#8220;The pressure lever of the Strait of Hormuz is of paramount importance to us,&#8221; adding that Iran is not willing to back down from its position on the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Meanwhile, explosions were reported in Bandar Abbas, Sirik Island, Shiraz, Bandar Lengeh, and Qeshm, in the country&#8217;s south, according to Iranian media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Local news reported renewed explosions in Qeshm, Bandar Lengeh, and Bandar Abbas early on Tuesday morning, as well as a wave of attacks in the port cities of Konarak and Chabahar.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, air defense systems near an Iranian nuclear power plant in Bushehr were activated, and explosions were heard in central Iran near Isfahan, Iran&#8217;s largest nuclear facility, Iranian semi-official news agency Mehr reported.<\/p>\n<p>IRNA said, citing the Governor of Isfahan, that no attack has been carried out against Isfahan tonight.<\/p>\n<p>IRNA added that the explosions heard in Bushehr are due to the activation of air defense systems, not impacts, citing the Governor of Bushehr.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced in an X\/Twitter post that a new round of strikes designed to &#8220;further&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12196,47994,42,87,143294,232604,1486,43,40,38,41,39,76279,2586],"class_list":["post-551299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking","tag-centcom","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-and-us","tag-iran-war-scenario","tag-memorandum-of-understanding","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-iran","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551299","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=551299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}