July 7 (UPI) — U.S. Central Command said Tuesday evening that it launched “a series of powerful strikes” against Iran in response to Iranian attacks on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
The attacks were “to impose heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway,” Central Command said in a social media post<\/a>. “Iran’s demonstrated aggression was unwarranted, dangerous and a clear violation of the cease-fire.”\n<\/p>\n The United States also reimposed sanctions on Iranian oil sales in retaliation for the attacks. The Treasury Department revoked waivers allowing Iran to sell oil and petrochemicals, CBS News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Iran said the sanctions were “in clear violation” of the memorandum of understanding to end the conflict between Iran and the United States that was signed in June<\/a>. Iran’s Foreign Ministry said it “holds the U.S. government responsible for this breach of commitment,” CNN reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n The ministry said the United States “has repeatedly committed both minor and major violations of various provisions of the” agreement over the past 20 days.<\/p>\n Iranian state media reported explosions in Bandar Abbas<\/a> and Sirik. Iran had previously warned the United State<\/a>s and Israel not to launch any strikes during the funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a>, who was killed by U.S. attacks in February. The funeral is expected to last throughout this week.\n<\/p>\n The earlier strikes by Iran were on tankers that were allegedly trying to travel the strait by a route Iran has warned against, CBS News reported. While Iran did not claim the attacks, but state media said at least one ship ignored warnings.<\/p>\n U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> is in Ankara, Turkey, for a NATO summit<\/a>, during which attendees were expected to discuss the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 7 (UPI) — U.S. Central Command said Tuesday evening that it launched “a series of powerful strikes”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,194400,286340,12,38262,3,452,2830,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-749555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","tag-bandar-abbas","tag-donald-trump","tag-iranian-oil","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-u-s","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}