The United States military has executed a fresh wave of high-intensity airstrikes across southern Iran, targeting strategic missile-launch sites and specialized naval vessels attempting to deploy maritime mines.
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed the military engagement on Tuesday, stating that the precision operations were conducted in self-defense near Bandar Abbas—a vital southern port city housing a major Iranian naval base on the lip of the highly volatile Strait of Hormuz.
CENTCOM spokesperson Captain Tim Hawkins clarified that while the strikes were crucial to neutralizing imminent threats to American forward-deployed troops, they do not indicate a formal termination of the fragile seven-week-old ceasefire agreement.
The sudden military escalation occurred as the Speaker of Iran's Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, arrived in Qatar alongside a high-level diplomatic delegation to negotiate terms for reopening the choked maritime waterway.
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In a defiant counter-response broadcasted on state television, a statement from the official X account of Iran's newly elected Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, warned that Middle Eastern countries would no longer serve as shields for Western military assets.
"The hand of time does not turn back," Khamenei asserted, declaring that Washington would lose its safe havens in the region.
This marks the first official policy statement from Mojtaba Khamenei since he was chosen to succeed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed during initial American-Israeli airstrikes on Tehran on February 28, 2026.
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