U.S. has launched ‘large and powerful’ strikes on Iran, Trump says

The U.S. has launched “large and powerful” strikes on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump said Tuesday in a post on Truth Social.

Trump said that the attack was “retaliation for the Iranians’ failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait,” adding that the mines had been “removed and detonated.” They were also a response to an Iranian missile launch at an American military base in Jordan.

Were the Islamic Republic to retaliate, Trump said “they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings.” When that was over, he added “there will be very little left” of the country.

In response, Iran’s armed forces general staff said in a statement on Telegram that it would “impose a heavy cost on the American enemy.”

The more the “U.S. military insists on its hostile actions in the region, the greater and heavier the losses it will have to bear,” it added.

Iranian state TV said the U.S. struck a fishmeal factory on Qeshm Island in the strait as well as several civilian targets in Hormozgan province. It…

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