{"id":222573,"date":"2026-08-30T23:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-strikes-iranian-launchers-on-larak-island-amid-strait-of-hormuz-tensions-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T23:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:52:50","slug":"us-strikes-iranian-launchers-on-larak-island-amid-strait-of-hormuz-tensions-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-strikes-iranian-launchers-on-larak-island-amid-strait-of-hormuz-tensions-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"US strikes Iranian launchers on Larak island amid strait of Hormuz tensions – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attack was response to Islamic \u2060Revolutionary Guard Corps preparing rockets to launch sea mines into strait, US claims
US forces have struck two Iranian launchers on Iran\u2019s Larak island, a US official said, marking the \u2060first known American strikes since late July.
\u201cI can confirm that earlier today US forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak island. Islamic \u2060Revolutionary Guard Corps forces were observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into the strait of Hormuz,\u201d the official said on Sunday.
The IRGC said the attack killed and wounded several soldiers and citizens and \u200bwould be met with a \u201cresponse \u200cand punishment\u201d from \u200cTehran, Iranian state media reported.
A spokesperson said the US would pay for the attack economically and militarily, according to the semi-official news agency Fars.
Iran\u2019s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported the US had carried out \u200ca drone strike on the island.
On Sunday night, Reuters reported a US source as saying Iran had launched an attack on US forces in Jordan in apparent retaliation, with the source adding that all incoming missiles had been intercepted with no significant impact so far.
Donald Trump said last week that all mines had been detonated or removed from the international waters of the strait of Hormuz and Iran had been told that any ship or boat placing new mines would be destroyed.
The last known \u200cUS strikes on Iran were in late July and the war has reached a stalemate in recent weeks, with Washington threatening \u200bto impose costly sanctions on countries that support Iran.
The US and Israel<\/a> attacked Iran on 28 February and Iran responded with its own strikes on Israel and Gulf states that host US bases. The Iran war has now \u2060crossed its six-month mark.
US-Israeli strikes on Iran and Israeli attacks on \u200bLebanon have killed thousands \u200band displaced millions. Eighteen US service \u200bmembers have been killed in the conflict.
The war has \u200bled to the \u200cblockade of the \u200bstrait of \u200bHormuz, which before the conflict accounted for the transit of about a fifth of the world\u2019s oil barrels consumed.<\/p>\n

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Attack was response to Islamic \u2060Revolutionary Guard Corps preparing rockets to launch sea mines into strait, US claimsUS forces have struck two Iranian launchers on Iran\u2019s Larak island, a US official said, marking the \u2060first known American strikes since late July.\u201cI can confirm that earlier today US forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak island. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}