US says another troop killed as Israel warns Tehran’s attacks coming close | US military
The U.S. military announced the death of another soldier on Sunday as it launched more airstrikes on Iran in response to the killings of American soldiers and Iran fired missiles at Jordan, risking expanding the conflict into neighboring Israel.
The US military said the soldier was killed during a “controlled detonation” of an Iranian drone shot down in Iraq on Saturday.
Earlier, the military said the attacks targeted Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for soldiers killed in Jordan on Friday. One soldier was missing following that attack, and the army’s new statement said “unidentified remains” were found and examined on Sunday. 17 US soldiers have been killed since the war began.
Last month, the United States and Iran inched closer to all-out war as the interim agreement aimed at permanently ending hostilities collapsed and shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz was largely halted. Both sides targeted civilian infrastructure that millions of people rely on.
The renewed exchange of fire, now in its second week, has seen the US target bridges, water desalination plants and power facilities in Iran. Tehran attacked US-allied countries in the Middle East.
Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain have reactivated their air defenses against drones and missiles from Iran. Israel warned that missiles launched into neighboring Jordan could cause fire to spread into Israeli territory for the first time in weeks.
The US military’s Central Command said the attack hit “Iranian military coastal surveillance and air defense facilities, naval capabilities, and missile and drone storage areas.” He said the attack was designed to weaken Iran’s ability to control the strait and “quickly punish the forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” a power base that controls the Iranian theocracy’s ballistic missile arsenal.
It turned out that the images published by the US army showed attacks carried out by warplanes and sea-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles. It turned out that one of the targets was in a valley in a mountainous region. The Guard often has missile bases and other military equipment located in mountain ranges.
According to state television, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran reported that the US attacks targeted the construction site of a nuclear power plant planned to be built in the southwest.
Satellite images from Planet Labs PBC of the Darkhovin nuclear power plant site showed that as of July 9, the land had been cleared but little construction was taking place. Iran had not previously announced that it was targeted.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said the facility contained no nuclear material “in the very early stages of construction” during a recent visit by the UN monitor.
At least 50 people were killed and 517 injured in the latest US strikes, Iranian officials said on Sunday. Iran did not provide any general information on the subject. material casualties.
Away from the region, the war’s impact on the prices of fuel and other goods has hit some of the world’s most vulnerable parts hard.
