U.S. Forces Strike Iran Again as Trump Administration Adds Sanctions
U.S. Central Command said American forces began striking targets inside Iran at 5:15 p.m. ET Wednesday. The Trump administration separately announced new sanctions on entities accused of helping Iran acquire weapons abroad.
upi.comU.S. Central Command said American forces began striking targets inside Iran at 5:15 p.m. ET Wednesday in what it described as self-defense strikes. The strikes targeted ammunition depots, command-and-control nodes and warehouses, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the operation. CENTCOM said the action responded to Iran's continued aggression.
The State Department sanctioned the Center for Innovation and Technology Cooperation, an Iranian government organization it said procured satellite imagery used in a March strike near a facility hosting U.S. troops. The Treasury Department placed sanctions on five individuals and four firms based in China, and the State Department sanctioned a Belarus-based entity called Armory Alliance for allegedly shipping man-portable air-defense systems from China to Iran.
U.S. forces launched the strikes after an Iranian drone downed a U.S. Army Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday evening, President Trump said. The two-member crew was rescued in an operation that used a sea drone. Iran said it launched attacks earlier Wednesday targeting U.S. military installations in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan; U.S. officials reported no impacts and said weapons were intercepted.
