US Central Command conducted a new round of military operations overnight into Friday, hitting military and transportation infrastructure in Iran’s Hormozgan province as Tehran simultaneously expanded its attacks against neighboring countries that host American military installations.
The American military used fighter jets, drones, and warships to strike a range of targets, including military logistics facilities, air defense positions, coastal surveillance sites, and infrastructure connected to access routes leading into the port of Bandar Abbas. The operation also took out six bridges and a railway station in what appeared to be a coordinated effort to cut off supply lines into the strategically important southern port city.
According to Iranian state media, the strikes resulted in at least eight deaths and left 20 others injured in Hormozgan province.
While those US operations were underway, Iran launched attacks targeting Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan — four countries that all host American military facilities.
Qatar’s Defense Ministry announced Friday morning that it was responding to a second aerial attack within the same day. Earlier, Qatar’s Interior Ministry had reported that a child was injured by falling shrapnel from a previous wave of strikes. Iran had not attacked Qatar in the days leading up to Friday, and Tehran has not claimed responsibility for Friday morning’s strikes on the country.
Bahrain sounded warning sirens for a second time Friday morning, according to its Interior Ministry. Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported that Iranian forces had targeted US military assets inside Bahrain, and state broadcaster IRIB released video it claimed showed drones being launched in Bahrain’s direction. CNN reported that it had reached out to US Central Command for a response.
Kuwaiti officials issued early Friday morning warnings to residents, alerting them that missile and drone threats could produce sounds from air defense interception systems. Iranian state media reported that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, known as the IRGC, claimed to have targeted US military equipment in Kuwait.
Jordan’s military said it intercepted three Iranian missiles on Friday, with no reported casualties or property damage. The IRGC separately claimed it had struck US fighter jets and aerial refueling aircraft in Jordan — a claim that CNN said it had not been able to independently confirm.
Iranian state media later reported that the IRGC had also targeted a US radar installation in Oman.
