Explosions were reported across several parts of southern Iran late on Thursday as United States forces began what US Central Command described as a sixth consecutive night of strikes. At least 10 blasts were heard on Qeshm Island, while explosions were also reported in Ahvaz and Bushehr between about 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. local time.
The geographic spread extended across multiple provinces and types of infrastructure. The published report said missiles hit the Kahurestan Bridge and a telecommunications tower in Bandar Abbas's Tappeh Allah Akbar neighbourhood. It also reported strikes on Sirik Jetty in Hormozgan province and Iranshahr Airport in Sistan and Baluchestan province. The report did not provide a comprehensive assessment of damage at those locations.
Iran's official IRNA news agency carried a statement from the Bushehr provincial governorate confirming two explosions in the Persian Gulf city. In Bandar Abbas, the public-relations office of Hormozgan University of Health Sciences said at least seven people were wounded in strikes affecting the Tappeh Allah Akbar area. No deaths were confirmed in the published account, and the conditions of the injured were not detailed.
CENTCOM said the new wave began at 2 p.m. Eastern time and was intended to further reduce Iran's military capabilities. The report described the night's target pattern as broader than earlier attacks that had concentrated on naval and coastal-defence infrastructure around the Strait of Hormuz. The inclusion of Iranshahr Airport, well to the southeast, and sites around Bandar Abbas and Bushehr indicated operations along a wide section of Iran's south.
The strikes unfolded while military action and diplomatic contact continued in parallel. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said earlier on Thursday that Iran had not ended communications and was still expressing interest in a nuclear agreement. Washington, according to the report, linked its campaign to what it called Iranian violations of a Pakistan-mediated memorandum, including fire directed at commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
The United States had also reimposed a naval blockade on vessels travelling to or from Iranian ports, tying that step to the alleged breach. Those broader claims provided the US rationale reported for the campaign, but the immediate evidence from the night remained fragmented: official confirmation of blasts in Bushehr, a health authority's account of injuries in Bandar Abbas, and CENTCOM's statement that another strike wave was under way. The cause, impact and precise target of every reported explosion had not been independently established in the published source. Nor did the account provide a complete casualty or infrastructure assessment across all of the named locations.
