US strikes targets in Iran for second day in a row

US armed forces have launched "additional" strikes on several targets in Iran, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on social network X.

"The strikes are in response to unjustified and ongoing Iranian aggression," the statement said.

U.S. WTI crude futures jumped 2.6% to $92.4 per barrel after ending the previous session up 2%, Bloomberg noted. Trading in Brent oil ended with growth of 3.9% - up to $95 per barrel, follows from the data of the Intercontinental Exchange. Growing tension between the U.S. and Iran threatens to extend the actual blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, through which before the war passed a fifth of the world's oil and gas supplies, writes Bloomberg.

The U.S. is attacking Iran for the second day in a row. The strikes began after Iran shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter that was patrolling the airspace over the Strait of Hormuz. As CENTCOM previously reported, a day earlier, the targets of the U.S. attack included Iran's air defense facilities, control points and radar stations near the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran responded by launching missile strikes against a number of Persian Gulf countries.

On Wednesday, June 10, US President Donald Trump threatened Iran with a new "very strong" strike. Tehran, he added, "must sign an agreement" for peace. "Iran only talks but does nothing," Trump wrote on the Truth Social network. "They have procrastinated for too long to make a deal that would be beneficial to them, now they will have to pay for it," he noted.

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