The US military launched “self-defense strikes” on Qeshm Island, a key location where the Iranian regime houses ballistic missiles used in its continuing attacks against Kuwait and Bahrain, according to US Central Command.
American forces downed several Iranian missiles and drones in tandem with the “self-defense strikes” on the island, CENTCOM announced Tuesday night.
Tehran launched at least five missiles that “failed to hit their intended targets” in neighboring Gulf countries. Two fell short or splintered mid-air while the other three were intercepted by US and Bahrain air defense forces, according to CENTCOM.
Iranian state media broadcast that three missiles struck “enemy bases” in Kuwait.
CENTCOM also shot down three one-way attack drones that Iranian forces fired toward civilian mariners in the surrounding regional waters. The US’s strike targeted a military ground control station on the island, which sits along the critical Strait of Hormuz.
The US military condemned the “unwarranted Iranian aggression during the ongoing ceasefire.”
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, meanwhile, painted its attacks on Kuwait as a response to US forces’ “brazen and blatant aggression” in strikes on Qeshm Island.
It warned that Tuesday’s strikes were merely an “initial response.”
The renewed strikes came just one day after the Islamic Republic obliterated an American drone and ordered a drone strike on a US base in Kuwait.
Monday’s strikes also centered around Qeshm Island, the Iranian regime’s underground and heavily fortified “missile city.”
The firefights have only escalated since IRGC mine-laying spurred American strikes in Bandar Abbas, Iran’s primary naval station, last week.
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