{"id":58006,"date":"2026-05-28T03:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=58006"},"modified":"2026-05-28T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:02:09","slug":"us-strikes-targets-in-iran-for-second-time-in-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=58006","title":{"rendered":"US strikes targets in Iran for second time in three days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The US military has carried out new strikes on Iran, targeting a military site in Bandar Abbas, a strategic port city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US Central Command (Centcom) said its forces also shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones “that posed a threat around the Strait of Hormuz”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The site in Bandar Abbas was struck as it was about to launch a fifth drone, Centcom said. Iranian media reported that explosions were heard to the east of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strikes come amid a fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran, and protracted negotiations to end the three-month war that has choked traffic in the Strait of Hormuz and shot up global energy prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is the second time in three days that the US has attacked targets in Iran – saying that the strikes were conducted in self defence. The renewed hostilities threaten the ceasefire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Centcom described its actions as “measured, purely defensive, and intended to maintain the ceasefire”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this week, it confirmed a previous round of “self-defence” strikes<\/a> on southern Iran on Monday in which they targeted Iranian missile sites and boats attempting to lay mines in the Strait, where thousands of commercial tanker ships are stranded as a result of the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Centcom said those strikes were designed “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran condemned the strikes as “a grave violation of the ceasefire” and vowed that the Iranian government “will not leave any act of hostility unanswered.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) also said on Tuesday that it had downed a US drone and fired at a fighter jet and another drone that entered Iranian airspace, but did not specify when.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said that Iran is “negotiating on fumes”,<\/a> insisting that his war strategy will not be impacted by November’s US midterm elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Maybe we have to go back and finish it, maybe we don’t,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During that meeting, the president also urged Gulf nations to sign on to the Abraham Accords to normalise relations with Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel launched the war against Iran alongside the US on 28 February and is also embroiled in a war with Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Trump has threatened to resume a large-scale bombing campaign if Iran does not agree to his terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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