Arabic version: الولايات المتحدة تشن الجولة الثالثة من الضربات بعد إغلاق مضيق هرمز

US forces have launched a third round of strikes on Iran in a week, the report says. The strikes followed a declaration by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that the Strait of Hormuz was closed. Mike Hanna filed the account from Washington DC.

According to Al Jazeera, the latest strikes are the third in a single week and came after the IRGC announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The report notes the order of events as the IRGC declaration followed by successive US strikes.

The reporting presents the developments in sequence: an IRGC announcement that the Strait of Hormuz was closed and then the launch of further US military strikes. Those facts are the specific elements reported in the Al Jazeera account filed by Mike Hanna from Washington DC.

The account as published focuses on the timing of the IRGC declaration and the subsequent US actions. It reports that US forces have launched multiple rounds of strikes within the same week and that the IRGC declared the Strait of Hormuz closed prior to the most recent strikes.

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