US launches new strikes on ‘multiple targets’ in Iran, CENTCOM says

The US military launched a fresh wave of strikes on Iran Wednesday evening, according to US Central Command.

“U.S. Central Command forces began launching additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 p.m. ET against multiple targets in Iran at the Commander in Chief’s direction,” the Tampa, Fla.-based combat command said in a statement on X.

“The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression.”

The latest attacks took place one day after an initial wave of strikes that followed the takedown of an Army helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz by an Iranian drone.

“We’re going to hit them again hard today,” Trump told reporters at the White House Wednesday afternoon before urging Iran to sign a peace deal that would include them giving up ambitions of acquiring a nuclear weapon.

“CENTCOM will be busy tonight because President Trump said we will be hitting Iran hard — and we will be,” War Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters in Florida.

“Iran has a chance to make a good deal, a great deal, to codify what they said they’ve been willing to do, and they haven’t been willing to do it,” he added.

“As President Trump said, they’ve been tap, tap, tapping [the US along on making a deal] … instead, they are going to have tap, tap, tap, bombs dropping on key facilities in Iran from the United States of America.”

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