DONALD Trump has unleashed a fresh round of strikes in a furious blitz on the Strait of Hormuz after Iran tried to litter the waterway with sea mines.
More than a dozen ballistic missiles have rained down on the region – targeting Iranian radar systems and military assets along the coastline.
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This latest onslaught comes in response to Iran attempting to strew further sea mines in the contested waterway and for shooting eight drones at a US air base in Jordan.
Iranian state media have reported explosions on the country’s oil-rich Qeshm Island on the northern side of the strait and eruptions in the southern port cities of Bandar Abbas and Chabahar.
In a post on Truth Social, the president wrote: “The United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes are large and powerful, and in retaliation for the Iranians’ failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines (They have been completely removed or detonated!), and the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down, at our Military Base in Jordan.
“If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!”
It comes after the US president’s first attack on Iran in a month two days ago.
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