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The U.S. military conducted another round of strikes against Iran on Wednesday morning, targeting an Iranian island near the Strait of Hormuz after President Trump threatened wider strikes.
The U.S. forces fired precision munitions against coastal defense systems and cruise missile storage and launch sites on Greater Tunb Island, located near the strait, in a wave that lasted about 90 minutes, according to U.S. Central Command (Centcom).
“The strikes further degraded Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” Centcom said in a statement.
The latest actions mark the fifth consecutive day the U.S. military has attacked Iran as the president warned in an interview with Fox News that the U.S. will gradually expand its strikes across the nation’s infrastructure.
“We’re going to hit them very hard tonight, we’re going to hit them very hard tomorrow night, we’re going to hit them very hard the night after, and then next week it gets really bad for them,” Trump told Fox News’s Trey Yingst. “Because next week comes the power plants, next week comes the bridges.”
Trump said the strikes will continue until Iranian negotiators “get to the table and negotiate.”
Iran retaliated Tuesday, firing drones and missiles at U.S. bases in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait.
Along with ramped-up kinetic action, Trump reimposed the naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for oil and gas shipping, on Tuesday, but he walked back his proposal of charging a 20 percent toll on all cargo passing through the waterway to compensate the U.S. for security.
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