For the seventh straight day, American forces struck deep inside Iran — knocking out bridges, severing rail connections, and toppling a surveillance tower at a major port — while Tehran answered by firing missiles at neighboring Gulf states where U.S. troops are based, according to The Associated Press.
Central Command characterized Friday's operations as targeting Iranian military assets, releasing no details about specific sites struck. State media in Iran described blasts across multiple regions, with reports of strikes near the coastal city of Bandar Abbas, the port town of Sirik on the Strait of Hormuz, and locations further inland across Fars province. The Port of Chabahar lost a key tower when U.S. strikes brought it down, The New York Times reported. American military officials identified the structure as an asset belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, saying it enabled the Guards to monitor and interdict commercial shipping moving through the Strait of Hormuz.