Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said it carried out strikes Thursday morning targeting a U.S. air base in response to earlier U.S. attacks against the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas.
The IRGC said in a statement posted on its official news outlet Sepah News that a U.S. air base was targeted at 04:50 local time after what it described as a U.S. attack using aerial projectiles on an area near Bandar Abbas airport in the early hours of Thursday, adding the retaliatory attack was a stern warning.
Three explosions were heard east of Bandar Abbas on the Strait of Hormuz at around 01:30 Thursday, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Multiple U.S. media outlets reported later that the U.S. military carried out fresh overnight strikes in Iran, targeting a military site that Washington said posed a threat to U.S. forces and commercial vessels in the region.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on social media on Thursday that Iran strongly condemned what he described as U.S. military aggression against the Bandar Abbas region, repeated violations of the ceasefire agreement, and threatening remarks directed at Iran and some countries in the region.
Iran's IRGC strikes U.S. air base in retaliation for attacks on its port city
