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The US military shot down four Iranian drones launched toward the Strait of Hormuz on Friday evening, US Central Command said — as President Trump told an audience in Wisconsin he had to hurry back to work to “straighten out a little unfinished business in Iran.”
“Moments ago, CENTCOM forces shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones that were launched toward the Strait of Hormuz,” the combatant command said in a statement shortly before 7 p.m. “The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic.”
A drone view shows vessels at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman. REUTERSThe US has been enforcing an naval blockade around Iran’s ports to impose economic pain. Tehran shut down maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz since the start of US and Israel’s war on Iran on Feb. 28.
CENTCOM said the military went on to strike “Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in Goruk and on Qeshm Island to defend against further attacks.
President Donald Trump waves after an event at Custer Farms in Chippewa Falls, Wis. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein“American forces remain vigilant and postured to respond to unjustified Iranian aggression in self-defense,” CENTCOM said.
The statement came shortly after Trump told speakers at his economic event in Wisconsin they would have to be quick.
“We’ll go pretty quickly, because I have to get back to fighting a war, Iran,” he said.
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