VIDEO | US military launches new strikes against Iran in retaliation for maritime attacks

A US official told Reuters that strikes targeted Iranian air defence systems, coastal surveillance systems, surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship cruise missiles and drone launch sites. Iranian media said six projectiles hit the area of Taheroui pier in Sirik in southern Iran.

This marks the first known US military strikes against Iran since late last month, when there were several days of strikes and counterstrikes between the two.

(Reporting by Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart, Ryan Patrick Jones, Ismail Shakil and Daphne Psaledakis; editing by Michelle Nichols and Sanjeev Miglani)