U.S. forces completed a 13th consecutive night of strikes on Iran as attacks around the Strait of Hormuz and Red Sea shipping routes continued to widen, according to AP and CBS News. [S1][S6]
Verification result: verified, because no material claim in the supplied record is contradicted and at least two independent reporting families directly support the central claim. [S1][S4][S6]
AP reported that Thursday’s U.S. strikes targeted key military and commercial sites, while CBS said the U.S. military described the operation as aimed at halting attacks on ships around the Strait of Hormuz. [S1][S6]
CENTCOM’s official account said U.S. forces struck Iranian military targets including maritime capabilities, missile and drone storage facilities, coastal surveillance sites and air-defense assets. [S2]
Iranian state media or officials reported four people killed and five wounded near Ahvaz, a casualty account corroborated by AP and IranWire. [S1][S4]
AP and IranWire also reported two people wounded in Bandar Abbas after explosions or a strike there. [S1][S4]
IranWire and CBS reported a U.S. strike on an IRGC-linked site in Gilan, with IranWire saying preliminary assessments found no casualties there. [S4][S6]
The shipping-route escalation was corroborated by AP and Al Jazeera, which both reported Houthi claims of attacks on the Encelia and the Layla in the Red Sea. [S1][S5]
The supplied sources support the U.S. rationale that the strikes were intended to degrade threats to commercial shipping, but they do not conclusively resolve whether every attack was retaliatory or preplanned. [S1][S2][S5]
