U.S. forces bombed a wedding ceremony in Sirik, a coastal town in Iran’s Hormozgan Province, killing four people, including a four‑year‑old child, and injuring 67, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society. The Red Crescent said most of the injured were women and children.
Iran’s foreign ministry condemned the strike as an act of cruelty and part of a pattern of attacks on civilians, citing a previous missile strike on a school in Minab that reportedly killed 156 civilians. Tehran vowed a “crushing and devastating blow” in response and claimed to have hit U.S. targets across Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq. The U.S. Central Command acknowledged reports of the incident but asserted that U.S. forces did not target civilians.
The attack follows the collapse of a short‑lived truce and marks an escalation in the all‑out war between the two nations, despite mediation attempts by Pakistan and Qatar. State media reported an additional seven deaths and eight injuries from U.S. missile strikes in Khuzestan province overnight, while CENTCOM said it targeted Iranian air defenses, radar systems, maritime assets, mine‑laying capabilities and communications sites.
U.S. President Donald Trump described the situation as Iran “playing out the inevitable,” claiming near‑total control of the Hormuz Strait and a collapsing Iranian economy. Iran’s foreign ministry warned that silence on such “savage crimes” would have consequences and pledged a firm response to what it called barbaric acts.
