Once again a very tense situation is being created in the Gulf. America intensified its attacks on Thursday and targeted most of the northern region of Iran. Also attacked bridges. Now Iran is retaliating and has carried out rapid air strikes targeting many of America's allies in West Asia.
In retaliation by Tehran, attacks were carried out on Bahrain and Kuwait in the early hours of Friday. American forces are present in both these countries and they have been attacked several times in recent times. A peace agreement was reached between Iran and America to end the ongoing war in the Gulf. But due to ongoing activities from both sides in the Strait of Hormuz, the war started again.
Iran's government news agency IRNA said on Friday that at least 3 people were killed in US air strikes targeting bridges in southern Hormuzgan province. Earlier on Thursday, America again intensified attacks against Iran.
The US carried out air strikes on targets further north and also attacked a ship that Washington accused of trying to break its naval blockade of Iran. In response, Iran fired missiles and drones at America's allies in the Gulf region.
For the first time in this latest round of violence, the scope of the American attack also reached the areas around Iran's capital Tehran, which shows that American attacks are now being carried out on more targets. The US launched a second round of strikes late Thursday that it said were aimed at “further weakening” Iran’s military capabilities.
Earlier, when America and Israel together started a sudden war against Iran on February 28, Tehran in response completely closed the Strait of Hormuz for the movement of ships. But due to this, oil prices increased rapidly and the global gas crisis increased.
Colonel Ibrahim Zolfgari, a spokesman for the Iranian military's Khatam al-Anbiya central headquarters, threatened that Iran could launch a massive attack on “all infrastructure in the region” if the United States followed President Donald Trump's repeated warnings that the US could attack Iranian bridges and power plants.
He said, "We will not, under any circumstances and in any way, allow America, which is a foreign country outside the region, to interfere in Hormuz. This is Iran's impenetrable 'red line'." Both the US and Iran have launched attacks as the blockade has been reimposed.
Iran's state media said yesterday that the US carried out strikes in Tehran and around Semnan province on Thursday. Iran's ballistic missile manufacturing facility and the center of its space program are located in the Semnan province itself. State media also reported that the attacks also took place in Hamadan, Hormozgan, Khuzestan, Lorestan, Markazi and Sistan-Baluchestan provinces, as well as Iran's Qeshm Island near the Strait of Hormuz.
According to Iranian state media, 7 people were injured in the US strike in the Allah-Akbar Hill residential area of the port city of Bandar Abbas. 2 more people injured in American attack on Bandar Abbas Railway Junction Station. Just west of Bandar Abbas, locals said the US strikes also hit two bridges, killing three and wounding nine.
Last month, an interim ceasefire agreement was signed between the two countries to stop the war, but it broke within a few days. And America and Iran have been attacking each other for several days for control over the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials say that more than 35 people have been killed and more than 300 injured in the latest US attacks. Tensions in the Gulf are escalating again as the US reimposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports on Wednesday.
