US targets Iranian bridges, energy sites in latest wave of strikes 

The U.S. military hit bridges and energy sites in Iran in its latest round of strikes against the Middle Eastern country early Friday morning. 

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) responded with attacks on U.S. bases in the Gulf region, including in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan. 

The IRGC also said it attacked a U.S. special operations command center at the al-Tanf Garrison military base in Syria — an assertion that U.S. Central Command disputed on Friday morning. 

“CLAIM: Iranian forces claim they attacked al-Tanf Garrison in Syria and captured or killed American troops in the process. FALSE,” the military command wrote in a social media post. “FACT: No U.S. troops in the region have recently been killed or captured.”

In an interview earlier this week, President Trump had telegraphed expanding the U.S. strikes to Iranian infrastructure, which critics have noted could constitute war crimes if the targets were not being used for military purposes.

“We’re going to hit them very hard tonight, we’re going to hit them very hard tomorrow........

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