NEW YORK, May 26. /TASS/. The US military struck a number of targets in southern Iran, Fox News reported, citing Tim Hawkins, a primary spokesperson for US Central Command (CENTCOM).

"US forces conducted self-defense strikes in southern Iran today to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces. Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines," Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin quoted Hawkins as saying on her page on X.

Namely, two boats of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were destroyed in the attack near Bandar Abbas and one missile launch site, according to the Fox News reporter.

What Griffin called defensive US strikes were over for now.