Eight explosions were reported on Wednesday night (08) in Bandar Abbas, a port city in southern Iran, near the Persian Gulf, according to Iranian state broadcaster IRIB. Other bombings took place in the province of Bushehr, in the southeast of the country. There were power cuts in Chabahar, both in southwestern Iran, according to the Iranian news agency IRNA.
US forces “have begun carrying out additional strikes against Iran to further reduce its ability to threaten freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz,” according to US Central Command in a post on X. The new bombings also come less than 24 hours after a latest wave of US strikes against several locations in southern Iran.
In counterattack, Iran carried out attacks on United States military bases in the Middle East region, according to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
It was a joint operation mediated by the Naval and Aerospace Forces, which employed missiles and drones that hit 85 strategic military installations in the Port of Salman, in Bahrain, and the Ali Al Salem Air Base, in Kuwait. A United States drone, MQ-9, was shot down in the operation.
The speaker of Iran’s Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said the United States had failed to comply with the 14-point memorandum of understanding. In a post on the social network According to Ghalibaf, “the era of intimidation and extortion is over.” “This isn’t going anywhere. We’re not giving in,” he added.
The Iranian government also threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz if the United States launched new attacks. According to the Iranian broadcaster Press TVTehran would attack “enemy” targets in a ratio of at least two to one if the threats made by President Donald Trump come to fruition.
Source: www.brasildefato.com.br
