US forces carried out an eighth straight night of strikes late Saturday, hitting Iranian military infrastructure in a continued campaign across the region.
US Central Command said on X that the newest attacks targeted coastal surveillance and air defense sites, maritime assets, and storage facilities used for missiles and drones, as Washington seeks to further weaken Iran’s military capabilities.
Video released by the combatant command showed fighter aircraft and missiles launched from aircraft carriers and destroyers, followed by explosions at targets in Iran’s mountainous areas.
“More than 50,000 US men and women in uniform are operating across the Middle East. They remain highly vigilant, focused, lethal, and ready,” the command said in a statement.
The barrage began at 6 p.m. Saturday and continued until about 11:30 p.m.
CENTCOM also said the strikes on Tehran were meant to swiftly punish the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The US action marks the latest escalation between Washington and Tehran, following a wave of Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks that killed two US service members at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan and left a third missing in action.
Four additional service members were evacuated for treatment at Jordanian hospitals and were later released.
President Trump called the deaths “a shame” but argued the mission remains critical.
“They did it because they don’t want to see Iran have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said of the troops in an exclusive call with The Post Saturday. “… And it just shows you how bad [the Iranians] are.”
Following the deadly attack, US forces targeted the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces that launched the Jordanian strikes, officials said.
The service members’ killed Friday are the first US fatalities since the president declared the cease-fire with Iran “over” last week, following Tehran’s targeting of three ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran was supposed to have reopened the strait as part of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding that cemented the cease-fire.
