(IANS) US FORCES launched fresh strikes on targets of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iran, marking a renewed escalation in hostilities between Washington and Tehran. If Iran “retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level,” US President Donald Trump warned in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday, describing the new strikes near the Strait of Hormuz as “large and powerful.” “But it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!” Trump threatened in the post.

 

However, the semi-official Fars news agency in Iran cited Ahmad Nafisi, Hormozgan’s deputy Governor for political and security affairs, as saying that at least five people, including a four-year-old child and a woman, were killed and over 50 others wounded in the US attack targeting the wedding ceremony in Sirik county. Multiple explosions were heard Tuesday evening in several southern Iranian provinces as US Central Command, in a post on social media platform X, announced the start of strikes against IRGC targets. The explosions were heard in the counties of Sirik, Bandar Abbas, Qeshm and Jask in Hormozgan, Konarak and Chabahar in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Jiroft in Kerman province, and Asaluyeh in Bushehr province. In a phone interview with Fox News, he claimed US forces destroyed “a lot of radar” in Iran’s network, including systems Tehran attempted to rebuild.