The US resumed attacks on Iran hours after President Donald Trump threatened to hit the country “hard” in retaliation for an attack on a US base in Jordan.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the conclusion of “heavy waves of strikes” in a post on X at midnight. It described the attack as powerful, and a “response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attacks on US forces in the Middle East.”
It stated that the strikes targeted Iranian assets such as “military command centres, missile and drone facilities, coastal surveillance and defence sites, and maritime capabilities.”
Al Jazeera reports that explosions were heard in several cities across Southern Iran, including Bushehr province, where Iran’s nuclear power plant is located, Qeshm Island, and the port city of Bandar Abbas in Hormozgan province.
Two people are also reported to have been injured by the strikes.
