US bombards Iran with another wave of strikes

The United States forces on Thursday bombarded Iran with another round of strikes.

This is contained in a statement by the US Central Command, CENTCOM, on X.

“At 2 p.m. ET today, the US forces began conducting a new wave of strikes against Iran for the sixth consecutive night to further degrade Iranian military capabilities,” CENTCOM said in a statement.

Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has said that Iran still wants to talk despite the US strikes.

“Iran very much continues to talk to the United States of America and expressed that they want to make a deal with us because they are suffering devastating blows on behalf of our United States military,” Leavitt said.

According to her, thousands of the US servicemembers are positioned in the region to continue enforcing the American blockade of Iran’s ports and ships.

“More than 10,000 U.S. sailors, Marines, and airmen, along with two aircraft carriers and more than 20 warships and dozens of aircraft, are executing the blockade mission as we speak.

“US CENTCOM has redirected two compliant commercial vessels and disabled one non-compliant vessel. So, look, the strait is open for ships that are not traveling to and from Iranian ports,” she said.