The U.S. military shot down multiple incoming drones and struck one ground control station inside Iran today that the military assessed as presenting a direct threat to U.S. forces and commercial shipping, according to a U.S. official.
The strikes were near the city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, and the official described the strikes as defensive because the drones presented a threat to U.S. forces near the Strait of Hormuz and to commercial shipping that was transiting the area.
The official said that the attacks were limited and do not represent a resumption of major combat operations against Iran.
The drones, which the official said belonged to the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, did not hit any military or civilian target.
Iranian state TV reported in a post on Telegram that three explosions were heard east of Bandar Abbas at 1:30 a.m. local time which triggered air defenses in the city for a few minutes. The cause and exact location of the explosions are being investigated, state TV said in the post.
At a Cabinet meeting earlier on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said that no one is going to be allowed to control the Strait of Hormuz, the key waterway through which some 20% of the world’s oil flowed before the war.
“The strait is going to be open to everybody,” he said, adding, “Nobody is going to control it.”
A U.S. official told NBC News on Monday that “very limited” and “very precise” attacks were carried out against Iran by the U.S. military after a series of missile, drone and small boat launches by the IRGC.
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