Iran-US war latest: US military carries out strikes on Iran after ships struck by drones in Strait of Hormuz

There has been no damage to the port of Sirik following a US strike, Iran’s state media reported this morning.

The official said the port was operating normally with no damage reported to facilities and equipment.

Iranian state media earlier reported the ‌strike at the port of Sirik after an explosion was heard there.

A source said several warning shots had been fired from Sirik toward vessels that violated Strait of Hormuz regulations about five hours earlier, adding two warning missiles had also been launched from the nearby Karpan area toward the strategic waterway.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said that in response its navy “struck the locations where the terrorist US military is stationed in the region” and warned that any further US attacks would be met with a broader response.

US President Donald Trump has promised American farmers they will soon be able to sell their crops to the “lovely country of Iran” now that he has signed a memorandum of understanding to end his war.

Speaking in the White House Rose Garden Thursday, the president said: “After years of getting ripped off by other countries on trade, we’ve reduced the agricultural trade deficit, just this year, by 42 percent, opening markets to the American exports, and all over the world, we’re opening up markets for the farmers.

“And we have another one, a new market, coming up. And that’s called the lovely country of Iran. It’s a beautiful place. Would anybody like to go there?”

The United States has pledged millions of dollars to the Lebanese military in a push for peace in the Middle East.

On Friday, the US, Lebanon and Israel signed a framework agreement for “lasting peace and stability to the region”, the US State Department wrote in a press release.

It comes after months of intensified fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

“The United States also reaffirms its intent to improve the capability and capacity of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) to more effectively establish sovereignty throughout Lebanese territory.

“To that end, the Department of War is prepared to reimburse the LAF with more than $30 million under existing authorities and appropriations to support the President’s vision for an enduring peace in Lebanon”, the State Department wrote.

US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has said the Iran war will be remembered as a “costly, self-inflicted wound”.

“One that made America less safe and drained billions from the American taxpayers in the process”, the New York Democrat said in a video shared on X.

The war cost the Pentagon around $40 billion, the Center for Strategic and International Studies has estimated. Americans have also been struggling with high gas prices brought on by the war.

Only 24 percent of Americans said the war was worth the cost in a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.

The US military hit four targets in its strikes against Iran Friday, according to a new report.

American forces used six land-based US aircraft to conduct the strikes, a US official told CBS News.