The United States Army carried out a new wave of attacks against Iran’s “military targets” this Thursday, whose authorities reported at least four dead and seven injured, within the framework of the hostilities that both countries have exchanged over the last 13 days.
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“U.S. forces today, at 6:45 p.m. ET (same time as Chile), began another night of attacks against Iranian military targets,” stated the United States Army Central Command (Centcom) in a social media message.
In it, he specified that “this is the thirteenth consecutive night of attacks,” which he once again defined as operations “aimed at holding Iran accountable and reducing the threats that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps poses to merchant shipping”.
Just over two hours later, the bombings concluded, according to CENTCOM itself in a post on X, where it claimed to have attacked “military command centers, drone storage facilities, communication networks, coastal surveillance sites, and maritime capabilities” of the Islamic regime.
Reiterating the justification for these operations, the military body argued that the Strait of Hormuz “remains open to transit despite recent attacks by the Revolutionary Guard.”
“Commercial vessels continue to navigate freely through the strait with U.S. military support,” he added, noting that “more than 50,000 U.S. military personnel are currently deployed in the Middle East.”
Iranian authorities, for their part, reported two injured in the city of Bandar Abbas, capital of Hormozgan province -located opposite the Strait of Hormuz-, where power outages were also recorded.
“Around 2:40 a.m. on Friday (Iran time), the American terrorist army attacked the Tape Alá Akbar neighborhood of Bandar Abbas for the umpteenth time,” denounced the Deputy Governor for Politics and Security of Hormozgan, Ahmad Nafisi, in statements to the state agency IRNA.
As a result, “two people have been injured in the attack so far and rescue forces are carrying out rescue and transfer operations for the injured”, he added.
Shortly after, the provincial director of the Red Crescent Society, Mojtar Salahshur, stated that, “unfortunately, shrapnel has impacted several buildings and injured two people, who have been immediately transferred to medical centers by Red Crescent rescue forces.”
In addition, the director general of crisis management of the provincial governorate, Mehrdad Hasanzadé, informed the same agency that, “after the attack (…), a light pole was damaged and an electrical cable broke,” so technical teams have been deployed to “secure the area.”
However, the attacks were not limited to this area, and the deputy director of security and law enforcement of the Khuzestan governorate, Valiolá Hayati, also reported a bombing in the vicinity of the city of Ahvaz, in the interior of this province bordering Iraq and with access to the Persian Gulf.
Despite initially indicating that this missile attack “caused no casualties or injuries,” Hayati reported shortly after that “four compatriots died and five others were injured”.
Khuzestan was one of the most attacked Iranian territories during the last 13 days. Several locations in 12 cities of the province were bombed, causing the death of 10 citizens, Hayati specified.
In fact, in the early hours of Thursday, a bombing against a border crossing left two dead and 11 injured.
Concurrently, tonight’s American aggression also reached the cities of Jandab, located in Markazi province -near Tehran- and Khorramabad, in Lorestan, located just south of the former locality.
The respective provincial deputy governors for Politics and Security, Hasan Qamari (Markazi) and Said Purali (Lorestan), issued similar statements, in which, reporting on the impact of projectiles, they warned that “experts are evaluating the exact estimation of human and economic losses caused”.
The latest known casualty figures, added to those that may or may not emerge in the coming hours, will be added to a tally that, according to the spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Health, Hosein Kermanpur, reported before the start of this latest wave, counts 55 dead and 629 injured.
“Among the injured are 46 women and 24 children and adolescents under 18, and among the deceased are six women and three children and adolescents under 18”, Kermanpur noted on social media, before adding that “36 people remain hospitalized.”
