— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 U.S. Central Command:

‘Today at 12 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran.

The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 IRGC Spokesman:

‘A severe punishment awaits the aggressors. America will come to regret its most recent attacks.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on Truth Social:

‘United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz.

The strikes are large and powerful, and in retaliation for the Iranians' failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines (They have been completely removed or detonated!), and the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down, at our Military Base in Jordan.

If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!’

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New strikes in southern Iran.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: During the attacks in southern Iran so far, the U.S. struck a factory producing ‘fish powder’, a commercial fishing pier, as well as a port authority tower in Sirik

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Ballistic missiles launched from Iran

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 IRIB: All the U.S. attacks tonight were against targets that were already struck in previous strikes, and resulted in no casualties or damage

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One missile was launched from Khomein and apparently failed after launch, more launches are expected.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump to Fox News: ‘IF IRAN RETALIATES, IT WILL NO LONGER EXIST!’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump to Fox News: ‘Iran doesn’t stop. They're crazy and they're stupid. I think an agreement with them isn't worth the paper it's written on. We gave them a lot of chances.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The airport in Jiroft, Kerman Province, was struck

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Shahed-136 drones have been launched towards U.S. bases in the Persian Gulf

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇶 NEW: Explosions are being heard in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran downed an American MQ-9 ‘Reaper’ drone with its new air defense systems

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The U.S. bombed a wedding in Sirik, resulting in two martyrs

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇯🇴 BREAKING: Preliminary reports of ballistic missile launches from Iran towards Jordan

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