WASHINGTON — American military forces conducted a fresh round of strikes against Iran on Saturday, according to the U.S. Central Command, hitting a number of targets that included military surveillance infrastructure.
“CENTCOM forces launched strikes today in direct response to continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping,” the command announced in an official statement.
Officials explained that the previous day’s strikes had come after Iran attacked the commercial vessel M/V Ever Lovely. Following that initial U.S. response, Iran was offered an opportunity to abide by an existing ceasefire agreement — but instead chose to send a one-way attack drone that struck the commercial tanker M/T Kiku on Saturday morning.
“After yesterday’s U.S. strikes in response to the Iranian attack on M/V Ever Lovely, Iran was given a chance to honor the ceasefire agreement but elected not to when its forces launched a one-way attack drone that hit M/T Kiku this morning,” CENTCOM stated.
