Kanal13US forces have dropped dozens of 2,000 pound GPX penetrating weapons on deeply buried missile launchers across the southern flank, General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced in a briefing. The briefing comes as Iran launched new attacks on Tuesday, firing missiles and drones at Israel and at American bases in the region. General Caine said that US forces hit more than 5,000 targets, and that their three objectives included destruction of Iranian ballistic missile and drone capability; hitting Iran’s navy to allow movement through the Strait of Hormuz; and hitting “deeper into Iran’s military and industrial base.
Furthermore, he announced that the remains of Major Jeffrey O’Brien and Chief Warrant Officer three Robert Marsan arrived in the United States Monday night, the latest casualties in the US-led war on Iran. Meanwhile, at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that Tuesday “will be yet again our most intense day of strikes inside Iran: The most fighters, the most bombers, the most strikes, intelligence more refined and better than ever.” He added “the last 24 hours have seen Iran fire the lowest number of missiles they’ve been capable of firing yet.” The rhetoric was equally sharp from Tehran.
Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, said on X that Iran was “definitely not looking for a ceasefire.” Iran launched new attacks on Tuesday at Israel and Gulf Arab countries as it kept up pressure on the Middle East in a war started by Israel and the United States that has rattled world markets and shows no signs of a letup
