Iran live updates: US launches more airstrikes on Iran for 7th night, CENTCOM says

Iran claimed Friday that the U.S. struck a railroad station and civilian airport.

In response, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command said the U.S. does not strike at civilians.

"The US military never targets civilians unlike Iran which has repeatedly attacked innocent mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz and civilians in neighboring gulf countries," according to Capt. Tim Hawkins, a CENTCOM spokesman.

In the recent wave of airstrikes CENTCOM has acknowledged U.S. forces have struck at military infrastructure facilities.

The distinction being that the U.S. may see facilities that Iran says are civilian in nature, but that CENTCOM says are being used by the IRGC to target shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

Kuwait's military said on Friday that several members of its ground forces were wounded, and military and civilian facilities were damaged after what it described as an Iranian attack involving ballistic missiles and drones.

A Defense Ministry spokesperson said the armed forces had detected hostile ballistic missiles and drones in Kuwaiti airspace since dawn on Friday and had intercepted and dealt with them.

The military also said several vital civilian facilities were hit, including a power generation and water desalination station, causing a fire and damage to parts of the facility and electricity generation units.

It said debris also fell in several locations across the country, causing material damage but no civilian casualties.

Earlier on Friday, Kuwait Fire Force said via X that firefighters had extinguished two fires that broke out at separate sites in the south of the country after the locations were struck in "hostile" Iranian attacks.

Former IRGC commander Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaei said in an interview with Iranian state media on Friday that if the U.S. continues its military actions against Iran, Tehran will move to an offensive position rather than a retaliatory one.

"If America continues the war in the coming days, Iran will move from the phase of retaliation to the offensive phase, and we declare that the conditions for both negotiations and war are over," the general said.

The IRGC general further stated Washington had violated all five preliminary clauses of the MoU, and that the "prediction that Donald Trump would tear up the memorandum of understanding came true."

Fars News Agency also reports the general saying if America continues the war in the next two to three days, Iran will enter the stage of "full-scale assault and annihilation."

The U.S. announced another round of strikes on Iran on Friday for the seventh consecutive night, according to U.S. Central Command.

"The strikes are designed to continue degrading Iranian military capabilities at the Commander in Chief's direction," CENTCOM said.

The U.S. also redirected four commercial vessels, disabled one and boarded on in its naval blockade on Iran, CENTCOM said.