The U.S. military says three service members have been killed and five seriously wounded in “Iran operation,” the U.S. Central Command made the announcement on social media on Sunday without providing additional information.
This comes as U.S. and “Israeli” strikes — and Iranian retaliation — sent shockwaves through sectors from shipping to air travel to oil, amid warnings of rising energy costs and disruption to business in the Gulf.
Blasts in Tehran sent a huge plume of smoke into the sky in an area where there are government buildings. Iranian authorities say more than 200 people have been killed since the start of the strikes that assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior leaders. Earlier, Iran fired missiles at an ever-widening list of targets in the Zionist entity and Gulf Arab states in retaliation.
The U.S. military said it had sunk an Iranian ship, while Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they had launched an attack against the U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln with four ballistic missiles, state media reported.
Meanwhile, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a prerecorded message aired on state television that a new leadership council had begun its work, and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said a new supreme leader would be chosen in “one or two days.”
