The new US attacks followed Thursday’s exchanges in the Strait of Hormuz, which both sides blamed on each other.
Centcom accused Iran of launching missiles, drones and small boats against three of its warships, in what it called an “unprovoked attack”.
Iran’s top military command, meanwhile, alleged the US had targeted an Iranian oil tanker and another vessel approaching the Strait of Hormuz and carried out “aerial attacks” on several coastal areas.
One of the cargo vessels attacked near the waters of Minab had caught fire, according to Mohammad Radmehr, an official in the southern Hormozgan province.
“Ten injured sailors have been transferred to hospital, and local groups and search teams are trying to learn the fate of the other sailors,” Radmehr told Iranian state news agency Mehr.
US President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social overnight that the US had destroyed multiple small boats, missiles and drones, adding that “great damage” was”done to the Iranian attackers”.
“Just like we knocked them out again today, we’ll knock them out a lot harder, and a lot more violently, in the future, if they don’t get their Deal signed, FAST!”
