—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Jennifer Griffin, Chief Foreign Correspondent for Fox News, says a senior U.S. official just told her that the U.S. military carried out airstrikes on Qeshm and Bandar Abbas ports

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Air defenses in Tehran continue to work against hostile targets

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Order of events:

1. America fired at an Iranian oil tanker.

2. IRGC Navy responded by firing on U.S. warships.

3. U.S. then strikes launch origin points in Qeshm and Bandar Abbas.

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Renewed explosion sounds.

Bandar Abbas, Minab, Qeshm.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: An additional wave of Iranian drones and anti-ship missiles was fired towards U.S. warships stationed near the UAE coast

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Khatam Al-Anbiyaa Central Headquarters:

– The United States, in violation of the ceasefire, targeted an Iranian oil tanker moving from the coastal waters of Iran in the Jask region towards the Strait of Hormuz, as well as another vessel entering the Strait of Hormuz, off the coast of Fujairah.

– Simultaneously, they launched airstrikes on civilian areas in cooperation with some regional countries in the coastal areas of Bandar Abbas, Sirik, and Qeshm Island.

– The armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran immediately retaliated by attacking U.S. naval vessels in the east of the Strait of Hormuz and south of Chabahar port, inflicting damage upon them.

– Criminal and aggressive America and its supporting countries should know that the Islamic Republic of Iran, as in the past, will powerfully and without the slightest hesitation respond decisively to any aggression.

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Seems to be confirmation of Emirati involvement.

Reports of explosions in the UAE are all false until now.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Strikes have also been reported in Minab and Bushehr

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 U.S. Central Command:

‘U.S. forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks and responded with self-defense strikes as U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman, May 7.

Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones and small boats as USS Truxtun (DDG 103), USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), and USS Mason (DDG 87) transited the international sea passage. No U.S. assets were struck.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) eliminated inbound threats and targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U.S. forces including missile and drone launch sites; command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance nodes.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: U.S. destroyers have withdrawn from the Strait of Hormuz

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⚡️⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 CBS reports that Iranian attack boats approached so closely to US ships that they were forced to open fire from their deck weaponry to repel them.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘The ceasefire is still ongoing, it’s being implemented’

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

‘Three World Class American Destroyers just transited, very successfully, out of the Strait of Hormuz, under fire. There was no damage done to the three Destroyers, but great damage done to the Iranian attackers.

They were completely destroyed along with numerous small boats, which are being used to take the place of their fully decapitated Navy.
These boats went to the bottom of the Sea, quickly and efficiently.

Missiles were shot at our Destroyers, and were easily knocked down. Likewise, drones came, and were incinerated while in the air. They dropped ever so beautifully down to the Ocean, very much like a butterfly dropping to its grave!

A normal Country would have allowed these Destroyers to pass, but Iran is not a normal Country. They are led by LUNATICS, and if they had the chance to use a Nuclear Weapon, they would do it, without question.

But they'll never have that opportunity and, just like we knocked them out again today, we'll knock them out a lot harder, and a lot more violently, in the future, if they don't get their Deal signed, FAST! Our three Destroyers, with their wonderful Crews, will now rejoin our Naval Blockade, which is truly a "Wall of Steel."

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 WATCH: Footage of Iranian missiles being launched at U.S. warships earlier tonight

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘We had three world-class destroyers go through the Strait today. Any other normal country wouldn’t have shot missiles or drones at it.

But Iran shot missiles at it, drones, and these stupid boats came at it. Got blown away in about two minutes.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on Iran’s latest offer:

‘It’s an offer that basically says they won’t have a nuclear weapon, they’re gonna hand us the nuclear dust, and many other things that we want.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘When Iran agrees it doesn’t mean much, because the next day they forgot they agreed.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘We’re dealing with different sets of people. We got rid of the first regime, we got rid of the second regime, and most of the third regime.

I think it’s the ultimate regime change.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇻🇦Reporter: ‘What did you tell Marco Rubio to tell the Pope?’

President Trump: ‘That Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and that they killed 42,000 innocent protesters’

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