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A U.S. strike hit Iran's Qeshm Port in the Strait of Hormuz and Bandar Abbas on Thursday. U.S. officials told Fox News that the action was neither a restart of the war nor an end to the ceasefire.
The U.S. military also took out Iran's Bandar Kargan naval checkpoint in Minab, officials confirmed.
This all unfolded as Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported air defense activity in western Tehran. Eyewitnesses told Iran International they heard two other loud explosions that night, along with multiple blasts in Chitgar.
This all unfolded as Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported air defense activity in western Tehran. Eyewitnesses told Iran International they heard two other loud explosions that night, along with multiple blasts in Chitgar.
Iran's state-run Mehr News Agency reported attacks and exchanges of fire across the southern Hormozgan province near Bandar Abbas, Bandar Khamir, Sirik, and Qeshm Island.
Thursday's strike on Iran's major port came just two days after Iran launched 15 ballistic and cruise missiles at the UAE's Fujairah Port. Those strikes sparked real anger among Gulf countries, officials told Griffin. Yet Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine had insisted during a Pentagon briefing on May 5 that the attacks did not violate the ceasefire. They called them low-level incidents that did not cross the threshold.
President Trump had paused Project Freedom on May 5. That operation aimed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and guide ships through the critical waterway after he announced it on May 3.
A senior U.S. official confirmed Thursday that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait were "very angry at the reaction from the Pentagon" and had temporarily halted permission for the U.S. to use their bases and airspace for Project Freedom. The decision has since been reversed, the official said.
The Thursday U.S. strikes came as Washington waited for Iran's response to a U.S. proposal.
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