US launches 'series of powerful strikes' on Iran

THE US HAS begun a “series of powerful strikes” on Iran, the US Central Command said in a post on social media.

The US Central Command directs military operations and defence collaboration across a 21-nation region spanning the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of South Asia.

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It said its forces began the strikes to impose “heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway”.

The US strikes are in response to Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, it said.

Earlier today, the US revoked a temporary sanctions waiver for Iranian oil after the three tankers were struck in the waterway.

The US Treasury Department cancelled a licence announced in June that had allowed Iran to produce, sell and deliver crude oil and related products through to 21 August.

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