{"id":2000113117,"date":"2026-05-26T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/?p=2000113117"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:56:55","slug":"u-s-forces-strike-irans-missile-sites-mine-laying-boats-central-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/u-s-forces-strike-irans-missile-sites-mine-laying-boats-central-command\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. forces strike Iran’s missile sites, mine-laying boats — central command"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“U.S. forces conducted self-defense strikes in southern Iran today to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces,” Tim Hawkins, spokesperson for the command, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines. U.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strikes were carried out in the Bandar Abbas area which hosts Iran’s main naval base, destroying two vessels of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps and hitting a surface-to-air missile site, said Hawkins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four people were killed in the attack, while the total number of casualties remained unclear, Fars News Agency reported, citing Iranian state television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fox News reported that two Iranian boats were spotted laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, and a missile site targeted U.S. warplanes. As a response, U.S. forces struck back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. strikes were “over for now,” said the report, citing a senior U.S. official on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strikes do not indicate the weeks-long U.S. ceasefire with Iran is over, two sources were quoted as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Strait of Hormuz as seen from Musandam, Oman, on May 25. The U.S. says its military has conducted strikes in southern Iran. \u00a9 Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. military struck missile launch sites and mine-laying boats in southern Iran on Monday, the U.S. Central Command said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000113126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[151,101],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000113117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-editors-choice","tag-internationl","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000113126,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7fsdljstcfhtxlrnw3qnxbsohe.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":900,"height":506,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7fsdljstcfhtxlrnw3qnxbsohe.jpg","width":150,"height":84},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7fsdljstcfhtxlrnw3qnxbsohe.jpg","width":300,"height":169},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7fsdljstcfhtxlrnw3qnxbsohe.jpg","width":768,"height":432},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7fsdljstcfhtxlrnw3qnxbsohe.jpg","width":900,"height":506},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7fsdljstcfhtxlrnw3qnxbsohe.jpg","width":900,"height":506}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000113117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000113117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000113117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000113129,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000113117\/revisions\/2000113129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000113126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000113117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000113117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000113117"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000113117"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000113117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}