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UPDATES: US War on Iran, Day 187 — US Attacks For 1st Time Since Late July, Tehran Retaliates
The US expanded its attacks inside Iran on Tuesday, and Tehran widened its retaliation across the Middle East.
US Central Command said it carried out a second day of attacks to remove the Iranian threat to commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and to American service members.
The Iranian Red Crescent said four people, including a child, were killed and more than 50 were wounded in a US missile attack on a wedding ceremony. The Red Crescent hit a home in the city of Kuhestak in southern Iran, striking the victims with shrapnel.
Centcom spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins insisted, “The US military never targets civilians, unlike the IRGC [Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps].”
Iranian media also reported explosions in Iran’s Qeshm Island in the northern Strait of Hormuz, the port cities of Bandar Abbas and Chabahar, and Konarak in southeast Iran. The situation at Jiroft airport in Kerman Province, also in the southeast Iran, was “under control” after a US projectile landed outside the airport’s runway without casualties or damage to structures.
Iran targeted bases in Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, and Jordan, claiming the latter with an “intense ballistic missile attack”. The Jordanian army said it intercepted missiles, without reporting any strikes or casualties in the US training camp on the Gulf of Aqaba, near the borders with Israel and Saudi Arabia. Three other missiles landed in remote areas.
The attacks further signalled that the Trump camp is not returning for now to talks on the Memorandum of Understanding, signed by Donald Trump in June but lapsing last month.
Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian had said earlier on Tuesday, “If the US returns to its commitments under the Memorandum of Understanding, the Islamic Republic of Iran will immediately reciprocate.”
But Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf emphasized, “If the enemy wants us not to export oil from the Persian Gulf, no one will be able to export oil.” If the US intensified the “siege” of its blockade on Iranian ports and vessels, Tehran would respond militarily.
