Iran Warns of “Full-Scale Offensive” After a Seventh Night of Strikes
US Central Command said it completed a seventh consecutive night of strikes on Iran early on Saturday, hitting weapons stores and maritime targets around Bandar Abbas and the Strait of Hormuz. A senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Mohsen Rezaei, warned that Tehran would move to “full-scale offensive operations” within days if the barrage continued through the weekend. Iranian officials say 38 people have been killed and more than 400 wounded over the past week.
The renewed campaign follows the collapse of June’s ceasefire memorandum, with Washington framing the strikes as degrading Iran’s military capacity and Tehran retaliating against the Gulf states that host American bases. That both sides are now striking bridges, ports and power infrastructure has prompted legal scholars to warn that hitting facilities of wide civilian use could, in some circumstances, amount to a war crime. Iran’s casualty figures are state-sourced and cannot be independently verified. British forces sit inside the theatre, at the Bahrain naval base and the Qatar air hub. Watch whether an eighth night triggers the threatened shift from measured retaliation to a wider offensive.