President Donald Trump has launched an offensive to reopen the Strait of Hormuz – as Israel signals a ground invasion is imminent.
The US deployed Apache helicopters and low-flying jets to attack Iranian ships near the strategically important waterway.
Gen. Dan Kane announced: “A-10 Warthogs are now deployed to the south shore targeting fast attack craft in the Strait of Hormuz.”
It comes as oil prices have skyrocketed due to attacks on gas fields this week in the bitter fight to control the Strait of Hormuz.
And Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu hinted that he may put boots Take to the field to crush what remains of the Iranian regime.
He also suggested that the war might end “much more quickly than people think”.
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“It is often said that you cannot win, you cannot create a revolution from the air. It is true. You cannot do it from the air alone,” Netanyahu said.
“You can do a lot of things from the air, and we are, but there has to be a ground component as well.
“There are many possibilities for this ground component, and I take the liberty of not sharing all of those possibilities with you.”
He did not specify what form a ground attack by the IDF or other forces might take.
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Trump rejected the idea of a US military strike on the ground in Iran, telling reporters: “I’m not sending troops anywhere – and if I did, I wouldn’t tell you.”
This came as Iran’s state media confirmed that Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps spokesman Ali Mohammad Naini had been killed in a US-Israeli strike. strikes.
Just hours before being ousted, he had insisted that Iran could still make missiles despite the Epic Fury bombing.
He said before his death: “These people hope that the war will continue until the enemy is completely destroyed.
“This war should end when the shadow of war is removed from the country.”
Last night an Israeli oil facility was hit by fragments of an Iranian missile.
And for the first time in the conflict, an American F-35 jet was shot down, forcing an emergency landing.
Iran also attacked a huge Qatari gas plant on Wednesday following Israeli attacks on its huge South Pars gas field.
There was at least one attack on the Ras Laffan industrial city in Qatar, and QatarEnergy confirmed it suffered “extensive damage” in the Iranian attack.
