BREAKING: CENTCOM confirms a second straight day of strikes on Iran, after Tehran hit ANOTHER oil tanker in the strait.
🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸BREAKING: CENTCOM confirms a second straight day of strikes on Iran, after Tehran hit ANOTHER oil tanker in the strait.
-CENTCOM says it struck multiple targets in Iran Sunday at Trump's direction, after Iran "was given a chance to honor the ceasefire" and didn't
-The trigger: an Iranian one-way drone hit the Panama-flagged tanker M/T Kiku at 4:30 a.m. ET, carrying over 2 MILLION barrels of crude near Hormuz
-It follows Friday's strikes answering Iran's attack on the M/V Ever Lovely
-U.S. aircraft hit surveillance infrastructure, communications, air defenses, drone storage, and notably minelayer capabilities
-CENTCOM stressed commercial transits are continuing, vowing forces remain "vigilant, lethal, and ready"
Hitting Iran's minelayers and coastal radar is how you keep the strait physically open, stripping Tehran's ability to mine the water or track the ships it keeps attacking.
Iran has now hit two tankers in two days, and each time the U.S. has answered by degrading the tools Iran needs to contest Hormuz.
Source: CENTCOM / Writer: Daniel
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