US & Iran intensify air strikes as naval blockage reimposed

The US reimposed a naval blockade on Iran and intensified its airstrike campaign today in retaliation for Tehran’s attacks on ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials said, the American strikes hit an Iranian army barracks, killed at least seven troops and injured more than 260 people across the country. Iranian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said that more than 30 people have been killed in recent days. Both the US and Iran have launched attacks as the blockade is reimposed. Days of back-and-forth strikes by the US and Iran across the West Asia and renewed threats to the waterway crucial to global energy supplies have shredded the interim deal to end the conflict. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened today to halt all energy exports from the West Asia over the blockade.