The U.S. military launched a second wave of strikes against Iran on Wednesday, hours after an earlier round of attacks, U.S. Central Command said. The strikes marked the fifth straight day of U.S. attacks on Iranian regime targets.
The evening strikes, which concluded at 9 p.m. Eastern, targeted Iranian command centers; air defense sites; missile and drone capabilities; and coastal surveillance facilities, according to CENTCOM.
“CENTCOM used precision munitions to hit targets in multiple locations, including Bandar Abbas,” the statement continued.
;The strikes were designed to “further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten innocent mariners crewing commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz,” it said.
“The U.S. military is holding Iran accountable at the Commander in Chief’s direction.”
Earlier on Wednesday, CENTCOM announced that it had carried out rare daytime strikes against the Iranian regime. The attacks, which lasted some 90 minutes, “further degraded Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” CENTCOM stated.
Targets included coastal defense systems, as well as cruise missile storage and launch sites on Greater Tunb Island in the Persian Gulf, it added.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps announced on Thursday morning that it had carried out attacks on Bahrain, Jordan, and Kuwait in response to the U.S. strikes.
;The IRGC said its attack on Bahrain destroyed the air surveillance and control radar and a fuel pumping station serving fighter jet storage tanks at Isa Air Base, according to a statement carried by the state-run IRNA news agency.
The attack on Jordan targeted a U.S. fighter jet ramp and an American command-and-control center at Al Azraq Air Base with ballistic missiles, the Guards claimed.
In Kuwait, the IRGC said it targeted a C-RAM early-warning radar at Ali Al Salem Air Base, as well as what it described as “the gathering place of the criminal soldiers of the terrorist U.S. Army.”
Bahrain’s Interior Ministry confirmed that air-raid sirens were activated around 10:45 p.m. local time on Thursday, and again at 2 a.m.
The Jordanian Armed Forces confirmed it shot down eight Iranian missiles, while the Kuwaiti military said that air defenses were “actively engaging with UAV threats.”
Lt. Col. Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesman for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, the country’s highest operational military command, warned on Thursday that Tehran would target “all infrastructure in the region” if the U.S. military campaign intensified further.
The spokesman warned that Tehran’s response to a U.S. escalation would be “more severe, broader, and more destructive than ever before.”
If U.S. President Donald Trump orders attacks on Iran’s power plants and bridges, “all infrastructure in the region will be crushed under the steel blows of the powerful armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran so that no trace of it remains, as though it had never existed,” Zolfaghari said.
