Saed News: A media outlet close to Donald Trump confirmed the US military attack on Qeshm and Bandar Abbas.
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A media outlet close to Donald Trump confirmed that the US military attacked Qeshm and Bandar Abbas.
Fox News reported that the US military carried out strikes on the ports of Qeshm and Bandar Abbas but emphasized that these attacks do not mean the start of a war.
The following developments were reported regarding the clashes:
🔹CBS reported that two US Navy destroyers passing through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday came under heavy Iranian attack for the second time in a few days.
🔹American officials described the attacks as more intense and sustained than the attacks on Monday.
🔹According to CBS News, the destroyers “USS Truxtun” and “USS Mason” were targeted by heavy Iranian attacks.
🔹US officials speaking anonymously said large groups of Iranian speedboats approached the destroyers so closely that the US Navy opened fire to keep them away.
🔹CBS wrote that the confrontation lasted for several hours. American destroyers and supporting aircraft defended themselves using five-inch guns and close-in weapon systems (CIWS).
🔹According to the report, teams armed with small weapons also fired from the ships’ decks at the attacking boats.
🔹US officials claimed Iranian forces also launched drones and missiles during the confrontation. CBS reported that no casualties or damage to American ships had been reported at the time of publication.
🔹This was the second attack within days against the two destroyers in the Strait of Hormuz.
🔹On Monday, the destroyers Truxtun and Mason had also passed through a wave of Iranian attacks before entering the Persian Gulf.
🔹US Central Command (CENTCOM) claimed in a statement that American forces intercepted and neutralized Iranian missile, drone, and speedboat attacks while US Navy destroyers were passing through the Strait of Hormuz toward the Gulf of Oman on May 7.
🔹The organization, which Iran has designated as terrorist, also claimed that none of the American ships were damaged.
🔹CENTCOM stated: “US forces, in self-defense, targeted Iranian military facilities, including missile and drone facilities as well as command-and-control centers.”
🔹Jennifer Griffin, who first reported the US attack on Qeshm and Bandar Abbas, wrote on X minutes later: “I can confirm from a senior American official that the US military has just attacked the maritime checkpoint at Korgan Port in Minab.”
🔹Jennifer Griffin, the Fox News reporter who first published the report about the US attacks on Qeshm and Bandar Abbas, linked the confrontation to the explosions that occurred days earlier in Fujairah Port in the UAE.
🔹In her X account, while attributing those attacks to Iran, she wrote: “This attack on one of Iran’s oil ports comes two days after Iran fired fifteen ballistic and cruise missiles at Fujairah Port in the United Arab Emirates.”
🔹The OSINTIsrael account on X quoted an Israeli source saying that Tel Aviv is monitoring the situation in the Persian Gulf region.
🔹The source stated that tonight’s clashes in Qeshm and Bandar Abbas appear to be limited and localized.
🔹Axios, a media outlet close to American and Israeli sources, also confirmed that the US attacked targets in the Strait of Hormuz.
🔹The outlet wrote that, from the US perspective, these attacks do not mean the resumption of war.
🔹Fox News stated that the US carried out attacks in Qeshm and Bandar Abbas but emphasized that the attacks do not mean the start of a new war.
🔹Fox News reported that the US military conducted strikes on the ports of Qeshm and Bandar Abbas while stressing that the attacks do not signify the beginning of war.
