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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), the arm of the Pentagon responsible for the Middle East, confirmed on Wednesday morning that it had engaged in a new round of air strikes against Iranian military missile launch sites after hours of similar targeted attacks on Tuesday.
CENTCOM explained that the objective of the new operations against Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is to erode Iran’s ability to bomb its neighbors and attack random civilian ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a tactic that Tehran returned to with gusto during funeral events for late dictator Ali Khamenei in early June. Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of CENTCOM, explained in a statement this week that the Iranian terrorist state had escalated its attacks on civilians in an effort to disrupt global commerce in the Strait of Hormuz, necessitating a response.
“Over the past seven days, Iran has intentionally targeted civilians across the region by attacking seven commercial ships resulting in nearly a dozen civilian crew members killed, missing, or injured,” Admiral Cooper detailed in a statement on Tuesday. “Iranian forces have also launched dozens of missiles and drones toward neighboring Gulf countries. U.S. forces are holding Iran accountable for unwarranted aggression that continues to endanger innocent lives.”