Central Command said the strikes began at 19:00 GMT,about 10:30pm in Iran, and were meant to keep grinding down Iranian military capabilities. Officials didn't say much about which sites got hit this round.Five explosions tore through Yazd,in central Iran, early Saturday, according to the state news agency IRNA. Down south in Sirik, residents heard three more blasts,and Mehr news agency reported blasts hitting several other provinces in the south too.Seven straight nights of bombing is starting to feel less like a campaign and more like a routine.Tehran accuses Washington of targeting civilian infrastructure and committing war crimes,a claim the Pentagon rejects outright.Trump threatened days back to hit Iranian infrastructure directly,and this sure looks like him following through. Fears keep growing that the whole thing spins further out of control before anyone gets a handle on it.
Major General Mohsen Rezaei,an adviser to Iran's supreme leader,warned Tehran will move into a phase of full offense and complete destruction if the strikes don't stop,possibly within two or three more days.Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it struck a depot housing US drones in Bahrain late Friday,and Washington hasn't confirmed that one happened.Both sides signed an interim deal after talks in Switzerland back in June, and each now accuses the other of breaking it.
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