The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that the operation was carried out in response to a U.S. bombing in an area near the airport of the port city of Bandar Abbas. The target was a U.S. air base from which the attack originated, the Corps specified.

“This response constitutes a serious warning to the enemy: no act of aggression will go unpunished, and if repeated, our response will be even more forceful,” they warned without revealing further details about the operation.

U.S. Attack

Earlier, Reuters reported that the U.S. military bombed an Iranian military installation in the area of the Strait of Hormuz, amid the fragile truce between Washington and Tehran and ongoing peace negotiations.

According to the source, the military site represented a “threat to U.S. forces and commercial maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.”

At the same time, the Iranian news agency Fars News reported that three explosions were heard in Bandar Abbas, one of the main ports of the Persian country located along the strategic waterway.