US strikes hit Iran for seventh consecutive night

The US military says it is carrying out the seventh night of strikes on Iran since US President Donald Trump declared the temporary ceasefire agreement was "over"."The strikes are designed to continue degrading Iranian military capabilities at the Commander in Chief's direction," the US military Central Command (Centcom) said in a statement.Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said two oil tankers had exploded in the Strait of Hormuz while passing through a mined part of the shipping channel - a claim later dismissed as false by Centcom.Iranian media reported that explosions were heard in the central city of Yazd and at Qeshm island and the port of Bandar Abbas next to the strait.Iran's state-run Fars agency said two oil tankers "exploded and caught fire while passing through a mined route south of the Strait of Hormuz".Later Centcom posted on X: "Like most IRGC claims, this is false."Shipping traffic in the vital Strait of Hormuz has largely stopped amid the continuing tit-for-tat strikes by US and Iranian forces. In normal times the strait accounts for about one-fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas supplies.On Friday, Iran's armed forces claimed to have attacked multiple US military facilities across the Gulf region in Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and – for the first time – Syria, which the US denied.