U.S. strikes Iran after attacks on vessels in Strait of Hormuz

According to Axios, the U.S. military carried out airstrikes on Iranian military targets near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, in retaliation for a series of Iranian attacks on commercial ships. A U.S. official said the strikes hit air defense systems, coastal surveillance, anti-ship missile sites, drone launch sites, and port facilities, with explosions reported near the port cities of Bandar Abbas and Sirik and on Qeshm Island. Iran launched three separate attacks on vessels Monday and Tuesday, shattering a brief pause that had followed a memorandum of understanding signed by President Trump less than three weeks earlier. Shortly before the strikes, the Treasury Department revoked the sanctions waivers that had allowed Iran to sell oil, a move Iran's foreign ministry condemned as a breach of that agreement. U.S. Central Command called the strikes a response to attacks on innocent civilian shipping and a clear violation of the ceasefire. Axios notes this is a developing story.

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