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US and Iran trade missile strikes amid Strait of Hormuz crisis
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The United States and Iran have exchanged strikes for the first time in about a month around the Strait of Hormuz, sharply escalating already fraught tensions in a vital global shipping and energy corridor.[1][3][10][13] The US says it destroyed Iranian launchers preparing to deploy sea‑mine rockets, while Iranian media reports retaliatory ballistic missile attacks on US‑operated airbases in Jordan.[10][1]