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BBC:\u00a0The US military said it carried out the seventh night of strikes on Iran since President Donald Trump declared the temporary ceasefire agreement was “over”.<\/p>\n

In a statement shared on X, US Central Command (Centcom) wrote that its forces “hit surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities”.<\/p>\n

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said two oil tankers had exploded in the Strait of Hormuz while passing through a mined part of the shipping channel. That was dismissed as false by Centcom.<\/p>\n

Jordan’s armed forces said it had intercepted 10 Iranian missiles fired into its airspace overnight, though there were no casualties or damage.\u00a0Centcom said it had ended its strikes at 21:30 ET (02:30 BST) after several hours.<\/p>\n

“U.S. forces employed fighter aircraft, aerial drones, and warships in addition to other assets,” it said in its statement.<\/p>\n

Iran’s state-run Fars agency had said two oil tankers “exploded and caught fire while passing through a mined route south of the Strait of Hormuz”. Later, Centcom posted on X: “Like most IRGC claims, this is false.”<\/p>\n

Shipping traffic in the vital Strait of Hormuz has largely stopped amid the continuing tit-for-tat strikes by US and Iranian forces. The strait normally accounts for about one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas supplies.<\/p>\n

Explosions were heard in the central city of Yazd and at Qeshm island and the port of Bandar Abbas next to the strait, Iranian state media reported.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Iran’s armed forces claimed to have attacked multiple US military facilities across the Gulf region in Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and \u2013 for the first time \u2013 Syria, which the US denied.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Kuwaiti officials said Iranian drone strikes had injured a number of their soldiers, while a power plant and water desalination stations had also been damaged.<\/p>\n

Sources have told the BBC’s US partner CBS news that several American service members were injured during Iranian attacks on two Jordanian bases over the past week.<\/p>\n

Washington denied Tehran’s earlier claims that its forces hit civilian infrastructure in Iran, including bridges, a train station and an airport. Provincial authorities in the affected region, Hormozgan province, said seven people were killed in the attacks.<\/p>\n

BBC Verify and BBC Persian have verified footage of damage to Gariveh Bridge, after night videos showed a ball of flames on top of it.<\/p>\n

Daylight images showed a crumbled stretch of road with rubble around the broken bridge.<\/p>\n

A White House spokesperson told the BBC the US had “carried out strikes exclusively on military targets, including military logistics infrastructure”.<\/p>\n

Friday marks one week of nightly US attacks since peace talks with Iran collapsed, as tensions over the future of the Strait of Hormuz hampered efforts to broker a permanent ceasefire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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