“Iran’s demonstrated aggression was unwarranted, dangerous and a clear violation of the ceasefire,” said CENTCOM.
(July 7, 2026 / JNS) American forces launched strikes against the Iranian regime in response to the Islamic Republic’s attacks on civilian-manned commercial ships on Tuesday.
U.S. Central Command said that its forces “have begun launching a series of powerful strikes against Iran to impose heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway.”
“The U.S. strikes are in response to Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels that were transiting the Strait of Hormuz,” CENTCOM said. “Iran’s demonstrated aggression was unwarranted, dangerous and a clear violation of the ceasefire.”
Iran fired missiles at commercial ships transiting the waterway between Iran and Oman, reportedly causing significant damage but no casualties.
In a subsequent statement, CENTCOM said U.S. forces had completed a new round of retaliatory strikes on Tuesday, hitting more than 80 targets, including Iranian air-defense systems, command-and-control networks, coastal radar sites, anti-ship missile capabilities and more than 60 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps small boats in and near the strait, to degrade Iran’s ability to continue attacking international commerce.
Iran had recently attacked three commercial vessels: the Marshall Islands‑flagged Al Rekayyat, the Saudi Arabia‑flagged Wedyan and the Liberian‑flagged Cyprus Prosperity, according to CENTCOM. It reiterated its previous statement that “the unwarranted aggression by Iranian forces is a clear and dangerous violation of the ceasefire and undermines freedom of navigation.” The statement added that CENTCOM forces “remain postured and prepared to hold Iran accountable when the agreement is not adhered to or obeyed.”
The strikes come as the U.S. Treasury Department reimposed sanctions on the export of Iranian oil in response to Iran’s attacks, and as U.S. President Donald Trump is currently in Ankara, Turkey, for a NATO summit.
Sirens sounded in Bahrain on Wednesday as the Gulf kingdom’s Interior Ministry urged citizens to seek safety, according to a post on X. The warning came after the IRGC said it launched missiles and drones at 85 U.S. military sites across Bahrain and Kuwait in response to the latest wave of American strikes.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf accused Washington of committing “major violations” of the ceasefire deal known as the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding following the renewed strikes.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ghalibaf listed what he described as U.S. violations, including “persistent threats of further strikes,” the reinstatement of oil sanctions, attacks on southern Iran and continued Israeli military action in Lebanon. “The era of bullying and extortion is over. It leads nowhere. We don’t fold,” he wrote.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, accused the United States of violating the memorandum of understanding, not only with Tuesday’s renewed strikes but also due to recent “actions of the Zionist regime in Lebanon and threatening statements against Iran.”
He warned that Iran “will take decisive actions to safeguards its national interests and security.”
Hussain Abdul-Hussain, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, called the renewed strikes a “brilliant step.”
“Islamic Iran lives in a parallel universe. It strikes first then accuses the American reaction of violating the ceasefire memorandum of understanding,” he said of Iran’s accusations.
“How can the world reason with such a problematic regime,” he added.
Jason Brodsky, policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran, said that “the costs for Iran’s regime’s violations of the memorandum of understanding have been increasing.”
“CENTCOM is disciplining Islamic Iran, which was taking America’s measurements and testing its limits,” he said.
07/07/2026 by JNS.
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