The tension between continues to escalate. The US Army launched this Wednesday a new series of attacks against “multiple targets” in Iranian territoryjust one day after the bombings carried out in retaliation for the alleged downing of a US military helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz.
The United States Central Command (Centcom) reported that the operations began at 5:15 p.m. on the US east coast (21:15 GMT) by direct order of the president
“US Central Command forces began launching additional self-defense strikes against multiple targets in Iran”said the military organization in a statement released through the social network X.
For now, Washington It has not revealed which facilities have been hit or how long the military operations will continue.
New escalation after several days of clashes
According to the Pentagon, these attacks are a response to the “unjustified and continued aggression” attributed to Iran in recent days.
The decision comes after USA would accuse Tehran of being behind the attack on a US Apache helicopter that crashed near the coast of Oman. The two soldiers who were on board survived after being rescued by US forces.
Hours before the start of the bombings, both Trump like the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, had anticipated that the response would be forceful. “We will attack hard tonight,” Hegseth said during a visit to the Centcom facilities in Florida.
Trump, for his part, had already warned from the White House that the United States would respond “harshly” to any Iranian action against its forces.
The largest exchange of attacks since the ceasefire
The new offensive occurs in the midst of the largest military escalation recorded since the ceasefire reached on April 8.
During the night of Tuesday, US forces bombed several points in southern Iran. Tehran later responded by claiming to have attacked up to 21 US military targets. spread across the Middle East, including sites in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain.
Washington, however, has denied that these attacks took place on the magnitude described by Iranian authorities.
All of this occurs while the indirect negotiations promoted by the United States continue to try to reach an agreement with Iran that will put an end to the regional conflict and reduce tension with Iran. Israel.
Paradoxically, just a few days before Trump insisted that a pact with Tehran was close and He even stated that it could be closed “in two or three days.” However, the chain of military reprisals in recent days seems to have removed, at least for now, any immediate possibility of an agreement.
The situation keeps the entire region on alert, where The fear of a direct confrontation of greater dimensions is growing again after several months of fragile truce.
