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The UnitedStates carried out a new wave of strikes on Iran early Monday, the ninthconsecutive night of its air campaign, according to the US Central Command(CENTCOM). At the same time, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) struckAmerican positions in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan.
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CENTCOM saidthe strikes hit missile and drone launch platforms, communications networks,military command centers, air defense installations, and coastal surveillancesites.
Iranian mediareported explosions across at least six provinces; an American strike on anarea of Khormuj city in the southern province of Bushehr cut electricity toseveral districts. Other explosions were reported in Bandar Mahshahr and BandarImam Khomeini in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, in Chabahar and Konarakin the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, in the northwesterncity of Tabriz in East Azerbaijan province, and in Isfahan Province.
Several attackshit Sirik in the southeastern province of Hormozgan, at least three in the cityof Jask in the same province, multiple blasts in Dashti in Bushehr, and twoexplosions near Khormuj.
Iraniantelevision said the blasts in Tabriz in East Azerbaijan Province were the firstof their kind since the latest round of American attacks began in recent days.One was killed and several wounded in a US strike on a military site near thecity.
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— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) July 20, 2026IranianOperations
The IRGC saidit targeted equipment and a hangar housing American MQ-9 drones at Ali Al-SalemAir Base in Kuwait and destroyed an early warning radar system at the same baseusing drones. The Guard also fired missiles at US military aircraft at Aqabaairport in Jordan, damaging several, and destroyed 20 warehouses used byAmerican forces in Jordan's Azraq area, killing dozens of soldiers.
The IRGCfurther stated that it downed an MQ-9 drone over the city of Islamabad-e Gharbin Kermanshah province, western Iran, warning that the American military“should prepare for a punitive operation.” The Guard also reported explosionsaboard two oil tankers that had halted movement while preparing to enter whatit described as an unsafe route south of the Strait of Hormuz.
Bahraini statetelevision said national air defense systems intercepted and destroyed Iranianaerial attacks over the country. The Interior Ministry activated warning sirensand called on citizens and residents to remain calm and move to the nearestsafe location. Sirens sounded following an Iranian attack on American bases,according to the same broadcast.
In Kuwait, airdefenses were engaging a hostile drone attack, according to the army.
Satellite images reveal a direct hit on a US military facility at Jordan's Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, destroying a base building and damaging several nearby military vehicles following Iran's retaliatory strikes.Follow: t.co/Ydtgh5Mbr0 pic.twitter.com/xDXjbbyEGv
— PressTV Extra (@PresstvExtra) July 20, 2026Casualties
Iran’s HealthMinistry announced on Sunday that US attacks on the country since June 27 havekilled more than 50 people and wounded 517 others, including women andchildren.
Health Ministryspokesperson Hossein Kermanpour said in a post that some of the woundedremained hospitalized, while 468 people had been discharged after completingtreatment.
CENTCOM so farannounced the killing of two US service members in Jordan in Iranian attacks,and one other while destroying explosives recovered from an Iranian drone inthe Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The cumulative toll, according to officialreview, reached 19.
Strikes andcounterstrikes were continuing at the time of publication.
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