US launches strikes on Iran after attacks on ships in Strait of Hormuz

US forces launched strikes against Iran on Tuesday after three commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz were attacked, the US Central Command said.

US forces “have begun launching a series of powerful strikes against Iran to impose heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway,” the command said in a post on X.

“The US strikes are in response to Iranian



attacks on three commercial vessels that were transiting the Strait of Hormuz,” said the command.

Explosions were heard near Iran’s Qeshm Island and port cities of Bandar Abbas and Sirik, Xinhua news agency reported quoting Iranian state outlet Press TV.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations on Tuesday reported three separate attacks involving tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz, with no casualties reported in any of the incidents.