Three explosions were heard in Iran on the night of Wednesday, the 27th, to the east of the port city of Bandar Abbas, in the south of the country, according to the news agency Fars. Iranian media also added that air defenses were activated for a few minutes and that authorities are investigating the source of the sounds.
The reports come two days after U.S. forces carried out what American military officials described as “self-defense” attacks in southern Iran, targeting missile launch sites and Iranian vessels that were allegedly attempting to lay mines.
According to Reuters, which cited a senior American official, the United States conducted new attacks in Iran today against a military facility that posed a threat to American forces and to commercial traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. The report also states that U.S. forces intercepted drones launched from Iran today.
An American official told Fox News that two Iranian vessels were caught launching mines in the Strait of Hormuz and that, subsequently, the U.S. armed forces destroyed the two ships of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The network also states that U.S. forces attacked a missile battery in the Bandar Abbas region, allegedly positioned to strike American aircraft.
