US, Iran exchange fresh strikes as Strait of Hormuz conflict intensifies

Mohsen Rezaei, a top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official. Pic/X @Globalsurv

The United States and Iran exchanged strikes aimed at infrastructure and military targets on Saturday as their battle over the Strait of Hormuz intensified. The region has endured days of back-and-forth attacks in a conflict increasingly focused on control of the strait, an essential waterway that used to carry a fifth of the world's crude oil. The collapse of an interim ceasefire leaves no clear end in sight for the war that the US and Israel began more than four months ago.

The US Central Command said on Saturday that its seventh straight night of strikes had hit "surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities."

The collapse of an interim ceasefire between US and Iran leaves no clear end in sight for the four-month-long war. Pics/PTI

Mohsen Rezaei, a top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official and military adviser to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, warned the US on Saturday of a "full-scale offensive" if it persisted with military strikes against Iran. "If US attacks continue for another two or three days, we will enter a phase of full-scale offensive operations," he said.

"No political border will be secure against Iran's offensive forces," Rezaei said and added that the United States should be required to pay financial reparations for what Iranian officials have characterised as attacks on civilian infrastructure, which the US denies.

Iran's 2nd attack on Kuwait water plant

Kuwait accused Iran onSaturday of targeting civilian sites and vital infrastructure in the country.

The most significant damage on Saturday occurred in Kuwait after Iran struck a water desalination plant and an oil facility, according to the Kuwait authorities and the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. Both declined to provide locations. The strikes injured several people at the oil facility and caused a fire at the desalination plant, forcing several power generation units offline. It was the second attack against a desalination plant in two days in the tiny desert nation, which depends on desalination for 90 per cent of its drinking water.

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