US completes strikes against Iran, releases videos showing strikes on 90 targets: Watch

THE US Central Command (CENTCOM) on Wednesday (local time) announced that it had completed another round of strikes against Iran, which it said was aimed at further degrading Tehran’s ability to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

US forces struck approximately 90 Iranian military targets including air defense systems, coastal surveillance assets, missile and drone storage sites, naval capabilities, and military logistics infrastructure along Iran’s coastline, CENTCOM said in a statement.

Second day of US strikes against Iran

This was the second round of US strikes in as many days against Iran following the renewed hostilities between the two sides.

“CENTCOM forces hit approximately 80 Iranian military targets July 7, including more than 60 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps small boats, to impose heavy costs for Iran violating the ceasefire by attacking three commercial vessels navigating the Strait of Hormuz,” CENTCOM said.

The US also released a video showing the strike on Iranian targets.

Iranian state media reported explosions in several locations, including Bushehr, home to Iran’s nuclear power plant complex, and the southern port cities of Chabahar, Konarak, Bandar Abbas and Sirik.

Videos posted on social media showed massive fire and explosions in Bushehr following the US strikes.

In Iran's southwestern Khuzestan province, at least three people were killed, state media reported. In Iranshahr, authorities said a strike had killed a firefighter at an airport. Those fatalities followed at least nine people being killed in Wednesday's strikes in Iran.

For the first time since April, it also appeared the U.S. strikes targeted Iranian bridges. State media reported a strike on a railway bridge in Iran’s northeastern Golestan province, and the Revolutionary Guard said two bridges had been attacked on the route to Mashhad, where officials plan to bury the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday. But it wasn’t clear if the Golestan attack was the same one mentioned by the Guard.

Iranian response

Responding to the strikes, Iran launched missiles and drones at US targets in neighbouring Baharin and Kuwait. Iran also warned US that any further American military misadventure would invite severe retaliation.

Condemning the strikes, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf accused the US administration of clinging to a confrontational foreign policy, arguing that Washington has failed to grasp that "bullying and breaking promises are no longer cost-free."

"America still hasn't learned that bullying and breaking promises are no longer cost-free. Let me put it plainly: if you strike, you'll get hit," Ghalibaf warned during a public address.

The top Iranian official further declared that the strategically vital chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz would remain firmly under Tehran's sovereign control, making it clear that any decision regarding its operational maritime status would be dictated by Iran rather than Western intimidation.

"Don't flail around pointlessly, or you'll sink even deeper. The Strait of Hormuz will only open with Iranian arrangements, not American threats," Ghalibaf stated defiantly.