A U.S. strike in the heart of Chabahar… Washington targets the Revolutionary Guard’s eye on the Gulf of Oman

U.S. Central Command announced that it had carried out a military strike targeting a watchtower belonging to Shahid Kalantari Port in the Iranian city of Chabahar, confirming that the site was part of a maritime surveillance network used by Iran to monitor ship movements in the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz.

Central Command said in a statement that the operation was carried out on July 16, noting that the destruction of the tower was intended to reduce the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s ability to coordinate operations targeting commercial vessels and their civilian crews in the region.

The statement added that the strike comes within the framework of what Washington described as protecting freedom of maritime navigation, stressing that the military measures exclude ships attempting to violate the naval blockade imposed on Iran.

Central Command explained that the targeted site was used, in its assessment, as part of a maritime surveillance system extending along Iran’s coast on the Gulf of Oman, giving Tehran the ability to track the movement of ships passing through one of the world’s most important maritime corridors.