The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement that on Wednesday evening, U.S. forces struck about 90 military targets belonging to the Iranian regime.
According to the CENTCOM statement, the targets included air defense systems, coastal surveillance equipment, missile and drone storage sites, naval capabilities, and military logistics infrastructure along Iran’s coastline.
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) July 9, 2026
CENTCOM added that the latest strikes followed the successful execution of offensive operations against the Iranian regime on Tuesday evening.
In those strikes, CENTCOM forces also targeted about 80 military objectives belonging to the Iranian regime, including more than 60 small boats operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). According to CENTCOM, the attacks were intended to impose heavy costs on the Iranian regime for violating the ceasefire by attacking three commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
CENTCOM emphasized that the latest strikes further degraded the Iranian regime’s ability to attack commercial vessels and innocent civilian mariners in the Strait of Hormuz. It added that U.S. forces remain vigilant, possess overwhelming combat capability, and are prepared to carry out any operations ordered by the Commander-in-Chief.
At the same time, military and political authorities in Kuwait and Bahrain announced early Thursday, July 9, that they had intercepted missile and drone attacks, saying the two countries’ air defense systems had repelled the assaults.
Shortly before that, the IRGC claimed it had attacked two U.S. bases in Kuwait and two U.S. bases in Bahrain.
According to the IRGC statement, forces of the Iranian regime attacked the U.S. bases at Camp Arifjan and Ali Al Salem in Kuwait, as well as Juffair and Sheikh Isa in Bahrain.
The IRGC said in a statement that the attacks were carried out in response to strikes on various locations across the country and threatened that if the United States continued its attacks against the Iranian regime, it would also target other U.S. bases in the region.
Shipping data show that following the Iranian regime’s latest attacks on vessels and the second consecutive day of U.S. strikes against military targets in southern Iran, maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has nearly come to a halt.
U.S. President Donald Trump, during a meeting with the President of Ukraine on Wednesday, July 8, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, expressed anger over what he described as the Iranian regime officials’ failure to honor their commitments and said he believed any agreement with the Iranian regime would not be durable.
