Middel East Monitoring Desk Islamabad
Iran Military has shared as confirmed that 03 US destroyers USS Truxton, USS Mason, and USS Rafael Peralta were attacked by Iranian missiles, drones, and small boats near the Strait of Hormuz by the Iranian Navy on Thursday night. Iranian spokesman said the US violated a ceasefire on Thursday night by targeting two Iranian oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz and carrying out aerial attacks on civilian areas in southern Iran, adding that Iranian Armed Forces retaliated against US military vessels in the region.
The US side has shared that Iranian media boasts of hits on US vessels, but CENTCOM reports every threat was intercepted. American forces sank multiple Iranian attack boats instead, with no damage to US ships.
Iran’s Press TV later reported that, following several hours of fire, “the situation on Iranian islands and coastal cities by the Strait of Hormuz is back to normal now.”
Iranian sources said the destroyers were retreating toward the Sea of Oman after Iran’s attack. The attacks on the hostile US destroyers were carried out using missiles and suicide drones.
CBS News also reported that three US Navy destroyers transiting the Strait of Hormuz came under attack on Thursday, adding that the US carried out strikes on two Iranian ports near the strait.
The US military’s Central Command confirmed the attacks in a statement and claimed that the US military responded with “self-defense strikes” on Iranian facilities.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has stated that Iranian military forces used “various types of ballistic and anti-ship cruise missiles and destructive drones with high-explosive warheads” in response to the US violations of the ceasefire.
In a statement on the Thursday night clashes in southern Iran, the spokesman for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbia Central Headquarters said, “The aggressive, terrorist and marauding US military violated the ceasefire by targeting an Iranian oil tanker sailing from Iran’s coastal waters in the Jask region toward the Strait of Hormuz, as well as another vessel entering the Strait of Hormuz off the UAE port of Fujairah.”
He added that “at the same time, civilian areas were subjected to aerial attacks with the cooperation of some regional countries along the coasts of Bandar Khamir, Sirik and Qeshm Island.”
