US Strikes Multiple Targets in Iran After Tanker Struck in Hormuz

Dubai: The US military said on Saturday it had struck multiple targets in Iran at the behest of President Donald Trump, continuing a series of strikes that have shaken the war’s uneasy ceasefire.

Following an attack on a commercial ship early Saturday morning, US military aircraft targeted the Iranian military’s “surveillance infrastructure, communications systems, air defense facilities, drone storage facilities, and mine-laying capabilities,” US Central Command said in a post on social media.

The incident follows a similar back-and-forth a few days ago when an Iranian drone crashed into a commercial ship off the coast of Oman on Thursday, and the US military retaliated with strikes the next day.

US Central Command said Iranian forces attacked the oil tanker Kiku with a one-way drone. The tanker was loaded with more than two million barrels of crude oil and was passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

The US military said that “Iran had the opportunity to honor the ceasefire agreement” but “chose not to” when its forces attacked Kiku.

Iranian state television reported that there were explosions in the region just north of the Strait of Hormuz.