The Iranian military said in a statement on Wednesday that overnight US airstrikes on the Iranian coast killed at least eight Iranian soldiers, Iran’s Mehr News Agency has reported.
The US attacks on Iran that began after several commercial ships were hit by drones in the Strait of Hormuz lasted for several hours and reportedly hit Qeshm Island and the port cities of Bandar Abbas, Sirik, and Mahshahr.
Iran’s PressTV said the US strikes targeted “a number of coastal bases and non-military stations,” and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the attacks “openly violated the ceasefire” and “trampled the Islamabad understanding.”
In response to the US strikes, the IRGC said that it attacked 85 US targets in Bahrain and Kuwait. “In the initial response to this aggression, the naval and aerospace forces of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps, in a joint missile and drone operation, struck 85 locations of important US military facilities at Salman Port, the US Fifth Fleet area in Bahrain, and Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait,” the IRGC said.
The IRGC also said that its forces downed a US MQ-9 Reaper drone that was flying over Iran’s Bushehr province. Since the US and Israel launched the war against Iran on February 28, the US has lost more than two dozen MQ-9s.
More attacks appear to be coming, as President Trump said on Wednesday that the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding was “over” and that he would launch another round of strikes at night. Iran has warned that it will hit back even harder if there are further US attacks.
