CENTCOM Confirms U.S. Action Against IRGC Launchers On Larak Island. Earlier today, U.S. forces conducted strikes against two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz. This marks the first military action by the U.S. in the region in over a month, reports Navy Captain Tim Hawkins, spokesperson for CENTCOM. “The IRGC had positioned themselves to launch rockets carrying sea mines in the vicinity of international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” said Hawkins. “We eliminated the launchers on Larak Island before any sea mines were ever placed in the water.”
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired ballistic missiles and drones at two American air bases in Jordan on Sunday in retaliation for the US strike on Iran’s Larak Island, the military branch claimed on Sunday. The bases targeted were the King Hussein Air Base near Amman and the Al-Azraq Air Base in the northeastern part of the country. The Revolutionary Guards claimed the attacks destroyed the “technical and maintenance infrastructure” as well as the “Deployment sites of the enemy’s fighter jets.”
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