Middle East crisis live: US military says it’s striking targets in Iran as hostilities flare

Centcom says strikes come after Iran’s attempted attacks on shipping These latest strikes come after the two sides exchanged fire for the first time in a month over the weekend. The US military said it had struck rocket launchers on Larak Island in the strait of Hormuz on Sunday, in its first strikes on Iran since July, after it detected the Iranians were planning to deploy fresh mines in the critical waterway. Today at 12 p.