Iran Vows to Retaliate After US Strikes Near Strait of Hormuz
“Severe punishment awaits the aggressors; the United States will regret its new attacks,” IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebi said in a post on X, following reports of explosions in several areas along and east of the strategic waterway.
ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) vowed on Tuesday to make the United States “regret” its latest attacks near the Strait of Hormuz, as US President Donald Trump warned Tehran against retaliating.
“Severe punishment awaits the aggressors; the United States will regret its new attacks,” IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebi said in a post on X, following reports of explosions in several areas along and east of the strategic waterway.
The comments came after US forces launched a new wave of strikes against IRGC targets in Iran near the Strait of Hormuz.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said the strikes began at noon Eastern Time and targeted several IRGC military positions in areas surrounding the strategic waterway.
According to CENTCOM, the operation followed recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and US service members deployed in the region.
Trump said the US strikes were also carried out in retaliation for what he described as Iran’s “failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait” and an Iranian missile attack on a US military base in Jordan.
“The United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social, describing the operation as “large and powerful.”
He said there were currently no mines in the waterway, claiming they had either been removed or detonated.
Trump also said Iran had fired eight missiles at a US military base in Jordan, all of which he said were successfully intercepted.
“If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level,” Trump warned.
He added that a larger US attack was being prepared and could leave “very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
The latest escalation has further heightened tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global energy route through which a significant share of the world’s oil and gas shipments passes.