Iran’s Health Ministry said on Thursday that 14 people have been killed and 78 wounded in the past two days of US strikes.
The latest US salvo hit more than 90 targets across Iran, US Central Command (CENTCOM) has said, with Iranian media reporting explosions and strikes in cities on Iran’s southern coast, and the country’s northern Golestan province on the Caspian Sea.
Here’s what we’ve seen so far overnight into Thursday:
Chabahar, the port city on the northern coast of the Gulf of Oman, near Iran’s border with Pakistan, suffered power outages and explosions. A hospital was struck by debris and two piers and a maritime traffic control tower were also targeted, according to Iranian state media.
In Iranshahr, a city in southeastern Iran, a firefighter was killed in a US attack on Iranshahr Airport that damaged the airport’s flight operations building and meteorological station, according to Iranian media.
Explosions were heard in the port city of Bushehr, Iranian state media reported. Iran’s UN ambassador, Amir Saeid Iravani said US strikes had targeted facilities in the city and islands in the Persian Gulf.
Projectiles struck the coastal city of Bandar Abbas, according to the semi-official Tasnim News Agency. Video geolocated by CNN shows multiple explosions and large fires near the city’s Haqani port.
Iranian media also reported strikes and explosions in the Persian Gulf island of Abu Musa, near the Strait of Hormuz, and in the coastal southern cities of Sirik, Jask and Konarak.
A railway bridge in Aqqala, a city in northern Iran’s Golestan province was also hit in what state broadcaster IRIB said was a US strike. While CENTCOM said it had struck locations on Iran’s coastline, it did not reference any strikes in the north of Iran in its statement.
In Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan, three people were killed near the town of Ahvaz, the semi-official Fars news agency reported the province’s deputy governor as saying. The US attack wounded several others, he added.
Yesterday, eight members of the Iranian air force and navy were killed in strikes on Bandar Abbas and Bushehr, state media said.