By Evaristo Lara
According to the instruction issued by Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed having resumed its offensive on some areas of Iranian territory, this in response to the fact that the troops of the Islamic Republic previously shot down one of its helicopters.
During a meeting held with senior members of the military at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, the official gave instructions to begin preparations for a new attack plan.
“CENTCOM will be very busy tonight because President Trump said we will hit Iran hard, and we will.
We will do so forcefully, on our own terms, with objectives that improve the environment where we can operate and that undermine the capabilities that Iran intends to have,” he said before a group of journalists who usually cover the events he attends.
Hegseth announced how, thanks to the support of the US armed forces, several merchant ships have managed to cross the Strait of Hormuz transporting millions of barrels of crude oil destined mostly for Europe.
“We have been protecting commercial shipping passing through the Strait of Hormuz, as the president announced, with a volume of more than 100 million barrels that have transited through it, and even more in the dead of night, protected by the United States in a way that Iran cannot stop,” he stressed.
Hours after Pete Hegseth’s statement, CENTCOM issued a message through the X platform, formerly known as Twitter, announcing that it had carried out new attacks against Iran.
“US Central Command forces began launching additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 pm ET against multiple targets in Iran under the direction of the commander in chief. The attacks are in response to Iran’s unjustified and continuous aggression,” the text states.
According to Mehr, Iran’s semi-official news agency, Some attacks were allegedly reported in Bandar Abbas, Minab and the island of Qeshm, where explosions caused by projectiles were heard.
Added to these statements were those of another information agency known as IRIB when it announced that A point located in Kergan Minab was attacked with “enemy projectiles” up to five times, situation connected to that they faced in the city of Sirik, in the province of Hormozgan.
It should be noted that The points indicated are located near the Strait of Hormuzan area shared between Oman and Iran closed to navigation since February 28, when the United States began bombing Iran under the argument of stopping its uranium enrichment process for military purposes.
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