The U.S. military completed its latest wave of strikes against Iran on Wednesday morning, U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
During the 90-minute operation, U.S. forces used precision munitions to strike coastal defense systems, as well as cruise-missile storage and launch sites, on Greater Tunb Island, the command said.
It added that U.S. forces had redirected two commercial vessels attempting to breach the blockade since naval operations against Iranian ports resumed.
Earlier on Wednesday, the command said that it began launching a wave of strikes against Iran at 6:00 Eastern Time (1000 GMT), aiming to "further degrade military capabilities Iranian forces have used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz."
Late on Tuesday, the U.S. military said it had hit dozens of military targets, including missile and drone sites, naval capabilities, and coastal defense systems, near the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian coastal areas in strikes lasting seven hours.
Iranian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said Wednesday in a post on social media platform X that more than 30 civilians had been killed in recent U.S. strikes in southern Iran.
On the same day, Hossein Kermanpour, head of the Iranian Health Ministry's public relations, said in a post on X that more than 260 Iranians had been injured in the latest round of U.S. attacks against Iran this month.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi said in an interview aired Tuesday on Iran's state-run IRIB that the passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz was not important to the United States, a point he said President Donald Trump had acknowledged.
However, he said, the United States does not want Iran to exercise full sovereignty over the strategic waterway.
Noting that Iran had never left the negotiating table, Gharibabadi said it was the United States that had torn up the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, and that Iran would not be the first to bow down and seek negotiations with the U.S.
U.S. Central Command ends new wave of strikes on Iran
