"We will take retribution" against the US for striking Larak Island, a spokesperson for the IRGC told state broadcaster IRIB on Sunday evening, adding that Iran "will punish those responsible."
Iran launched missiles at US ships in the Strait of Hormuz early on Monday morning, Iranian state media Press TV reported. The US military struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island after Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces were seen preparing to fire towards the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, a US official told The Jerusalem Post, marking the first US strike on Iran in several weeks. According to Axios, the rockets were armed with sea mines.
IRGC-run media outlet Fars News reported that witnesses in the area heard the explosion. The IRGC spokesperson claimed the attack was born out of "desperation" from the US and Israel, state broadcaster IRIB reported on Sunday evening. "We will take retribution" against the US for striking Larak Island, the spoeksperson said, adding that Iran would "punish those responsible."
The IRGC said that the American attack had killed and injured several soldiers and civilians, but did not provide a precise casualty toll. "This action will be met with a response from the sons of Islamic Iran, and the US will face punishment," IRIBreported. The attack was "a strategic and fatal error by the Trump administration," the IRGC spokesperson said in a statement on X/Twitter. It "will shift the balance against its designers and entail heavy costs." (Read More)
