The U.S. military said on Wednesday (July 29) it completed its latest wave of strikes on Iran, which lasted two hours and hit dozens of targets, with Washington casting the strikes as a "powerful response" to Iranian missiles launched towards U.S. forces in the Middle East a day earlier. Footage released by U.S. Central Command on social media purportedly showed surveillance video of the strikes. The Central Command said the American strikes began at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday (0000 GMT on Thursday) and ended at 10 p.m. ET (0200 GMT on Thursday).

The authority says that the strikes are a response to attempted Iranian attacks on US forces based in the Middle East

WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - The United States is conducting air strikes in Iran, the U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday.The strikes started at 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT), it…