US Central Command announces 13th consecutive night of US strikes on Iranian military targets
US strikes on Iranian military targets for the 13th consecutive night
The US Central Command announced that US forces have been striking Iranian military targets for the 13th consecutive night since 6:45 PM Eastern Time.
The operations focus on weakening the combat capabilities of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and protecting commercial shipping.
The ongoing nighttime strikes are driven by events, applying military pressure, benefiting arms and energy safe-haven funds, while Iranian military facilities and regional shipping security are under pressure.
Source: Public information
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Since mid-July, the US Central Command has resumed and continued its nighttime precision strikes against Iran, which were restarted after a temporary ceasefire due to attacks on commercial vessels, targeting missiles, drones, coastal defense, and Revolutionary Guard facilities.
In terms of capital and resource pathways, the US military is continuously depleting Iran's asymmetric warfare assets, reducing its threat capability to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea, while coordinating maritime blockades and rerouting vessels, forcing Iran to weigh military costs against economic gains, with funds flowing to military contractors and alternative energy supplies.
Similar cases can be seen in the 2024 US-UK continuous strikes against Yemen's Houthis, as well as the no-fly zones and punitive airstrikes against Iraq in the 1990s; the current US-Iran conflict is in a phase of limited target strikes and proxy harassment.
Essentially, this represents a technological substitution: precision munitions and sustained nighttime operational capabilities are replacing large-scale ground interventions, with the mechanism being that low personnel risk air superiority can long-term suppress the opponent's asymmetric means, altering the cost structure of the conflict.
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