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

Iran’s Health Ministry said on Saturday that U.S. airstrikes in the country have killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 500 since July 6.

U.S. forces completed a seventh consecutive night of strikes against Iran, U.S. Central Command announced in a social media post.

The strikes concluded at 9:30 p.m. ET after the U.S. hit surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage and maritime capabilities, CENTCOM said in the statement.

"CENTCOM continues to hold Iran accountable at the Commander in Chief's direction while fully enforcing a naval blockade against Iranian ports," the CENTCOM statement said. "More than 50,000 American service members are operating across the Middle East and remain vigilant, lethal, and ready."

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.