{"id":333628,"date":"2026-08-31T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333628\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:00:25","slug":"us-launches-first-strikes-on-iran-in-weeks-as-regime-vows-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333628\/","title":{"rendered":"US launches first strikes on Iran in weeks as regime vows revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US launched strikes on Iran\u2019s Larak Island on Sunday, the first offensive in weeks \u2014 as the regime vowed revenge.<\/p>\n

The US fired the attack after Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were allegedly setting up another wave of underwater mines in the Strait of Hormuz, Axios reported.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cEarlier today U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island,\u201d a US official told the outlet. \u201cIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces were observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into Strait of Hormuz.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n

\"VesselsVessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Aug. 28, 2026, in Bandar Abbas, Iran. via REUTERS<\/p>\n

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed the attack that reportedly killed and wounded several people, but did not provide further details.<\/p>\n

The attack \u201cwill be answered by the sons of Iran and will result in the punishment of the aggressor,\u201d the IRGC told state broadcasters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Iran launched a subsequent attack at US forces stationed in Jordan, Fox News\u2019 chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst reported,<\/a> citing American sources familiar with the operation. <\/p>\n

Nearly all incoming missiles fired by the Islamic state were intercepted with little to no impact on the ground, according to Yingst. <\/p>\n

The US has previously targeted military sites on the island, which lies near the heart of the Strait of Hormuz, over the regime\u2019s ongoing attacks on commercial vessels during the war.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The attack came just days after US Central Command completed clearing the Strait of Hormuz <\/a>of Iran\u2019s sea mines, according to the Trump administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

President Trump has repeatedly claimed that the strait, which oversees the transport of 20% of the world\u2019s oil supply, has been cleared.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"AnAn F\/A-18E Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln last month. US NAVY\/NAVCENT PUBLIC AFFAIRS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The president gave his latest warning to Iran on Tuesday, vowing that any ship or boat caught placing new mines in the waterway would be \u201cimmediately and systematically destroyed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Traffic along the Strait of Hormuz remains a fraction of its pre-war flow, with another tanker struck by a projectile on Sunday, according to the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO).<\/p>\n

The tanker was struck near the coast of Oman, where dozens of ships have been sneaking through weekly under US protection.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US launched strikes on Iran\u2019s Larak Island on Sunday, the first offensive in weeks \u2014 as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14670,661,9,11,10,62206,62208,1076],"class_list":["post-333628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-iran","tag-military","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}