US Intensifies Pressure on Iran With Second Night of Strikes

For the second consecutive night, the U.S. military introduced what it described as self-defense strikes on Iran early Thursday. President Donald Trump warned that more attacks could follow if a peace deal is not reached. In response, Iran's nuclear deal threatened to target ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

The US military’s Central Command has declared the strikes were complete about four hours after they started, shortly after midnight in Tehran, saying in a post on X. The targets added “military surveillance capabilities, communication systems, and air defense sites across Iran.”

CENTCOM said, “The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression”.

According to India's latest news, Iranian media reported several explosions in the country’s southern region near the Strait of Hormuz. The area had previously been targeted by U.S. strikes on air defense, radar, and more military sites on Tuesday. Iranian sources said fresh impacts from what they showed as “enemy projectiles” were recorded in Kargan, Qeshm, and Sirik.

The attacks were the advanced development in an escalating exchange of strikes that have additionally strained the fragile ceasefire reached in early April to halt the US-Israel war with Iran, which started at the end of February.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in response to Thursday’s strikes that it had introduced attacks on US military targets at airbases in Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain.

Iran’s top joint military command also warned it would fire on any vessel attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, which has been largely closed for months. Iranian media reported that two ships were fired upon.