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US military says command posts, coastal surveillance sites among targets hit in latest wave of strikes
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe US Central Command says that the US military completed its latest wave of strikes on Iran that it carried out at President Donald Trump’s direction, hitting targets further north.
“US forces struck Iranian command centers, air defense sites, missile and drone capabilities, and coastal surveillance facilities,” it says in a statement, adding it also hit targets in Bandar Abbas, home to Iran’s largest port and key navy and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities on the Strait of Hormuz.
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