Al Jazeera:
US Central Command (CENTCOM) says it has completed its 11th consecutive evening of air strikes against Iran to further degrade the country’s “ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz”.
In a statement, CENTCOM said that US forces targeted “Iranian military operations centres, maritime capabilities, aircraft hangars, drone storage facilities, and military logistics infrastructure”.
Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi, reporting from Tehran, said that “massive explosions were heard across the Iranian capital”, and that the air-defence system had been activated in various locations in Tehran.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported explosions being heard in parts of Bushehr, also in southern Iran. Several explosions were also heard around Sirik in southern Iran, according to the Fars news agency.
Areas near the cities of Behbahan and Omidiyeh in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province had been targeted in US missile attacks, the province’s deputy governor told Fars news agency.
Fars reported that US forces had attacked a military site on the outskirts of Tabriz in northwestern Iran. Citing local crisis management officials, the news agency said the strike occurred at about 2:40am local time (23:10 GMT) and hit a military zone near the city. It said there have been no attacks inside the city.
Attacks on Tabriz and Tehran mark a departure from the general trend of strikes in the latest round, which have largely focused on southern Iran and the area around the Strait of Hormuz.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Kuwaiti army said that its air defences were intercepting an Iranian drone attack. Iran has repeatedly attacked Gulf countries, including Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, since the resumption of US attacks this month.
