U.S. strikes Iran for first time in weeks as six-month war reignites over Strait of Hormuz

President Trump shared an AI-generated video on his Truth Social platform late Sunday depicting what he said was Iran’s strategic oil hub of Kharg Island under attack.

“Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!!” Mr. Trump wrote in his post accompanying the video.

It appeared to be a threat to the Iranian island, as there has been no evidence of any recent attack on the territory in the far northern Persian Gulf, which has long been Iran’s primary oil export terminal.

Earlier, the U.S. military struck Iran’s Larak Island, which sits very close to Iran’s coastline in the Strait of Hormuz.

The CEO of the National Iranian Oil Company said Monday that operations on Kharg Island had not stopped, according to Iran’s government-affiliated Nour News agency, which was cited by Reuters.

A supertanker was struck by two naval mines while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, sparking a fire and forcing it to stop, according to a statement by the Iranian military quoted by the Reuters news agency.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps said the tanker had attempted to pass through the strategic waterway illegally, but it did not identify the ship or provide information about its location or crew.

The most recent incident involving a commercial ship in the region reported by the U.K. Navy’s Maritime Operations center, which monitors such attacks, was a tanker “struck by an unknown projectile whilst transiting inbound in the Strait of Hormuz” on Saturday. 

UKMTO said there were no casualties and no environmental impact reported.

The Jordanian Armed Forces said Sunday it intercepted eight missiles that had entered the country’s airspace, according to Jordan’s Al-Mamlaka TV broadcaster.  

A spokesperson for the military said all eight missiles were destroyed before they could do any damage, according to the broadcaster.

A person familiar with the attack also confirmed to CBS News the missiles were intercepted, although they did not specify how many.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Sunday it launched attacks on American military bases in Jordan in response to the U.S.’s earlier attack on Larak Island.

The IRGC said it launched ballistic missiles at King Hussein and Al-Azraq air bases and claimed it destroyed “technical and maintenance infrastructure and the enemy’s fighter jets’ deployment sites.” 

Separately, the IRGC said it targeted U.S. military personnel on an air base in the United Arab Emirates, and that it shot down a U.S. drone over the Strait of Hormuz.

U.S. forces on Sunday struck two rocket launchers on Iran’s Larak Island, in the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. Central Command spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins. 

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces were observed preparing to launch rockets and deploy sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz, Hawkins said. CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper said Friday that U.S. forces had cleared all sea mines from the shipping lanes of the strait.

Larak Island sits in the Strait of Hormuz, just a few miles off Iran’s coast, and Tehran is believed to have used the island as a de facto toll booth as it demands ships pay fees to transit the strategic waterway safely.

The IRGC, in a statement conveyed by Iran’s state broadcaster, said “several of our fighters and compatriots” were killed and wounded in the U.S. strike, according to The Associated Press.

The statement said the attack would “result in punishment of the aggressor.”