The US military carried out new strikes in Iran Wednesday, targeting a military site that threatened American troops and commercial shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Reuters.
The outlet, citing a US official, also reported that drones launched from Iran were intercepted by American forces.
An Iranian drone-launching unit and four one-way drones that fired at an American commercial ship were struck in the US military strike, according to Axios.
Iranian state media reported three explosions being heard east of Bandar Abbas, which is located near the strait in southern Iran.
Despite the skirmish, the fragile cease-fire that has been in place since April 8 is still considered to be holding, a US official told CBS News.
US Central Command and the Pentagon did not immediately respond to The Post’s requests for comment.
The strikes follow “self-defense strikes” launched by the US military on Monday against Iranian boats that were reportedly laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
Those attacks also took out a surface-to-air missile site in Bandar Abbas.
The missile site based at Iran’s primary naval station was reportedly targeting US warplanes, according to CENTCOM.
Wednesday’s clash also come as US and Iranian negotiators work to finalize a memorandum of understanding that would reopen the key waterway to international shipping — without tolls — and allow additional time for an agreement on the fate of Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpiles.
President Trump warned earlier Wednesday that if a deal is not agreed to, “we’ll have to just finish the job” militarily.
Trump also chided the regime for thinking “they were going to out-wait me,” and argued they were “negotiating on fumes” in the wake of the destruction of their air force, navy and the deaths of key leaders since the initial US and Israeli strikes on Feb. 28.
“I think it looks like they want to just make a deal,” the president said during a cabinet meeting at the White House. “I don’t think they have a choice.”
With Post wires
