US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that they had completed strikes on Iran after explosions were heard in the south of the country on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
Several locations in southern Iran<\/a> were targeted by US forces, with explosions heard in the cities of Bushehr, Abu Musa, Kish Island, Ahwaz, and Qeshm Island, Iranian state media Press TV reported.<\/p>\n CENTCOM said that US forces “successfully completed a heavy wave of strikes against Iran in response to yesterday’s attempted missile attacks on US forces.”<\/p>\n “CENTCOM assets struck dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets in Iran, including military command centers, missile and drone facilities, coastal surveillance and defense sites, and maritime capabilities.<\/p>\n “The strikes aimed to further diminish threats posed by Iran and its proxies to American forces, commercial shipping, and neighboring Gulf countries.”<\/p>\n The Deputy Governor of the Hormozgan province in southern Iran said that the US was attacking areas surrounding Qeshm Island, with Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reporting that three explosions were heard on the island.<\/p>\n A residential area on Qeshm Island<\/a> was hit by a US missile strike, Tasnim reported.<\/p>\n Tasnim also reported explosions in the city of Kazerun in southern Iran.<\/p>\n A US official told Fox News that the ongoing strikes involve “a very broad target set.”<\/p>\n The strikes were carried out in response to “yesterday’s attempted Iranian attacks on US forces based in the Middle East,” CENTCOM<\/a> said in a post on X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n