The US completed its seventh consecutive night of strikes against Iran in the early morning hours of Saturday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced in a statement on X/Twitter.
According to CENTCOM, US forces struck Iranian surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and naval capabilities.
Fighter jets, drones, and warships were used to carry out the strikes.
On Friday night, when announcing the start of the strikes, CENTCOM stated that the attack was “designed to continue degrading Iranian military capabilities.”
In a separate statement, CENTCOM also announced that since reimposing the US’s blockade on Iranian ports along the Strait of Hormuz, US forces have redirected four commercial vessels, disabled one vessel, and boarded an additional vessel to ensure compliance with the blockade.
Shortly after CENTCOM announced the strikes, Iranian state media outlets reported that multiple explosions were heard in the central Iranian city of Yazd and that areas of the southwestern city of Ahvaz were attacked by US missiles.
Kuwait announces desalination plant hit
Kuwait’s Electricity, Water, and Renewable Energy announced that a fire broke out at a power and water desalination plant as a result of ongoing Iranian drone attacks
The ministry stated that emergency services are currently working to deal with the fire and that several of the plant’s units have been shut down as a precautionary measure.
US destroys IRGC surveillance tower used to target vessels in Strait of Hormuz
On Friday, CENTCOM announced that US forces destroyed a surveillance tower along Iran's Gulf of Oman coastline, part of a surveillance network used for decades by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to track and target commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
According to CENTCOM, the tower's destruction "directly degrades IRGC's ability to coordinate attacks on innocent civilian crew members."
The strike on the Chah Bahar Shahid Kalantari Port surveillance tower came as part of the US's most recent wave of strikes against Iran conducted early Friday morning.
The US also denied the IRGC's claim that they had attacked a US special operations command center and captured or killed US soldiers at al-Tanf in Syria in retaliation for the strikes.
"Fact: No US troops in the region have recently been killed or captured," CENTCOM wrote in a post.
Iran threatens 'full-scale offensive operations' if US continues strikes
On Friday, advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Mohsen Rezaei threatened that Tehran will “move into a phase of full-scale offensive operations” if the US continues strikes against Iran for “several more days,” during an interview with Iran’s State TV.
He also warned that if the US attempts to seize any locations, Iran may engage in an “offensive war instead of a defensive one.”