{"id":3702,"date":"2026-11-03T09:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2026-11-03T09:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:03:50","slug":"us-carries-out-defensive-strikes-on-irans-qeshm-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3702","title":{"rendered":"US carries out ‘defensive’ strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The US carried out strikes on Iran\u2019s Qeshm \u200bIsland in the Strait of Hormuz, a US \u200cofficial said on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The strikes, earlier reported by the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, appeared to be limited and were not \u200ba resumption of major combat operations, the official \u200bsaid, speaking on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

Another \u2060official said the strikes were defensive measures against \u200bIranians using surface-to-air missiles against US assets.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon referred \u200ba request for comment to the US Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

CENTCOM did not \u200brespond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

Citing a source, AP news agency said \u201cIranians using surface-to-air missiles against US assets\u201d had been targeted.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Monday, Iranian \u200bstate media outlet IRNA reported that there were several explosions on Qeshm \u200cIsland.<\/p>\n

The \u2060Journal<\/em> reported that the attack was the latest in a series of strikes carried out by Washington in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Fox News, citing officials, said the \u200bstrikes were defensive \u200band carried \u2060out in response to Iran firing at a US aircraft.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, President Donald \u200bTrump<\/a> hinted at renewing attacks on Iran \u200bafter \u2060the US midterm elections<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

But after a speech at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on \u2060Monday, he \u200bindicated he might be thinking \u200botherwise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US carried out strikes on Iran\u2019s Qeshm \u200bIsland in the Strait of Hormuz, a US \u200cofficial said on Monday. The strikes, earlier reported by the Wall Street Journal, appeared to be limited and were not \u200ba resumption of major combat operations, the official \u200bsaid, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Another \u2060official said the strikes were defensive measures against \u200bIranians using surface-to-air missiles against US assets. The Pentagon referred \u200ba request for comment to the US Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East. CENTCOM did not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}