The situation continues to escalate! The US military carried out air strikes on Iran for the seventh consecutive night and it was revealed that it will send dozens of additional tankers to Israel
According to CCTV News and other media reports, the US military launched a new round of strikes against Iran at 3 pm Eastern Time on Friday. This was the seventh consecutive night that the US military launched air strikes. The U.S. Central Command stated that this round of operations was carried out at the direction of President Trump and was designed to continue to weaken Iran's military capabilities. This round of ongoing conflicts has increased the serious risk that the situation between the United States and Iran will slip back into a full-scale war.
According to CCTV News and other media reports, the US military launched a new round of strikes against Iran at 3 pm Eastern Time on Friday. This was the seventh consecutive night that the US military launched air strikes. The U.S. Central Command stated that this round of operations was carried out at the direction of President Trump and was designed to continue to weaken Iran's military capabilities. This round of ongoing conflicts has increased the serious risk that the situation between the United States and Iran will slip back into a full-scale war. After the memorandum of understanding aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz was effectively torn up last week, the United States carried out multiple rounds of bombings on bridges and other deep targets in Iran's interior, trying to use extreme pressure to force it to stop its attacks on shipping in the Gulf; Iran also responded hard with wider and more deadly attacks. US military strikes Iran for seventh consecutive night It is reported that in the early morning of the 18th local time, explosions were heard in multiple locations in Iran. Explosions were heard in areas around Sirik and Rarestan in the south, Yazd in the center and Ahvaz in the southwestern Khuzestan province. U.S. officials said the strikes were broader and targeted Iran's weapons and surveillance systems used to attack commercial ships, as well as small vessels, coastal radar stations, air defense systems and missile and drone storage facilities. The United States has repeatedly attacked Chabahar Port, Iran’s only deep-water ocean port. U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth released the latest photo of a collapsed maritime communications tower in the port of Chabahar, more than 350 miles east of the strait and close to the border with Pakistan. Iranian authorities have now confirmed that the facility was attacked, while insisting that it is used daily for civilian purposes, such as search and rescue operations for fishermen at sea. It is revealed that the US military will send dozens of additional tankers to Israel U.S. officials said earlier this week that Trump was leaning toward expanding U.S. military operations to break the diplomatic deadlock. The United States is moving fighter jets from Europe back to the Middle East, according to flight tracking data and people familiar with the matter. More than 2,000 Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit are currently returning to the Middle East for operations after performing missions in the Pacific. The U.S. government has "notified" Israel that it will send dozens of additional aerial tankers to Israel, multiple U.S. and Israeli sources revealed on Friday, signaling that it may expand its military operations against Iran in the future. The news also pointed out that Prime Minister Netanyahu will make the final decision on this. According to Israeli sources, these US military tankers will arrive in Israel at a rate of 5 to 8 per day and are not expected to land at Ben-Gurion International Airport. Mohsin Rezai, the military adviser to Iran's supreme leader, said on July 17 that if the United States continues to launch attacks on Iran, the Iranian armed forces will turn to a full-scale offensive. He also said that the United States' continued violations of the terms of the memorandum of understanding have made it "existence in name only." Earlier in the day, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a statement stating that in response to the U.S. attack on Iran the day before, it had launched large-scale strikes against U.S. military targets in Kuwait and Syria. The Kuwaiti military stated on the 17th that Iran launched multiple drone attacks on Kuwaiti military facilities, injuring several soldiers. Kuwait also said the Iranian attack damaged a power plant and desalination plant, a provocative escalation - especially in the height of summer - that forced the country to activate contingency plans. The country's military said it had intercepted 32 drone strikes since early Thursday. However, the United States quickly denied the attack in Syria. According to CCTV reports, the U.S. Central Command issued a statement on social platforms on Friday the 17th, saying that Iran’s statement that it attacked the U.S. military base in the Tanf area and killed and captured U.S. military personnel was “wrong.” The statement said that no U.S. military personnel had been killed or captured in the area recently. On Thursday, Iraqi officials also said drones struck an oil tanker and a container ship in the country's southern port, as well as in Iraq's northern Kurdish region. The gas field, the region's largest, has been shut down due to a credible threat that it could be attacked. Ship tracking agency Kpler said traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has fallen to its lowest point in three weeks. Half of them are Iranian ships, and most of them use Iranian routes.