Washington, United States. The U.S. military attacked Iran on Friday after an Iranian drone strike on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, with both countries accusing each other of violating a ceasefire agreed on last week. The strikes came as officials also pointed to signs of progress elsewhere in the region, including an agreement between Israel and Lebanon aimed at ending fighting involving Hezbollah.
U.S. military operation
U.S. Central Command said aircraft struck missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites in Iran. It later released a grainy black-and-white video showing an explosion and labeled it “unclassified.”
A U.S. official said the operation had concluded.
Iranian account
Iran said a projectile hit the area around a pier in Sirik in southern Iran. It said Iranian naval forces responded by striking U.S. military targets in the region, but did not provide details about what may have been hit.
Ceasefire dispute
Tehran said it would control the Strait of Hormuz and warned Gulf states not to side with Washington after Thursday’s attack on a cargo ship near Oman’s coast. President Donald Trump blamed Iran for the attack and said it violated last week’s interim agreement.
“The unwarranted aggression against commercial shipping by Iranian forces clearly violated the ceasefire,” U.S. Central Command said in a statement announcing the strikes, which it described as “a powerful response to yesterday’s attack on a commercial ship that was transiting the Strait of Hormuz.”
The U.S. military said it would continue to provide “safe passage coordination and support” to commercial vessels transiting the strait.
Vice President JD Vance said the United States had honored the ceasefire deal, also described as a memorandum of understanding.
“Iran signed a ceasefire agreement. We have honored it. If they have disagreements about how the MOU is being applied, they can pick up the phone. But violence will be met with violence,” Vance said on X.
Israel-Lebanon agreement
Elsewhere, Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement aimed at ending fighting between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah after four months of conflict.
Both sides described the deal as an initial step that calls for Hezbollah to disarm and for Israel to withdraw troops from Lebanon. It was not clear how the agreement would be enforced.
Hezbollah said it would not cooperate.