What happened

US forces struck two Iranian Revolutionary Guard launchers on Larak Island after US surveillance reportedly observed personnel preparing to launch rockets carrying sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz, according to US Central Command. The strike was the first publicly reported US military action inside Iran in about a month and followed the announced clearance of mines from the strait's main international shipping routes. Iranian media initially reported two people killed and several injured. Tasnim subsequently said one injured person died in hospital, raising the Iranian-reported death toll to three; a stable final injury count has not been published. These casualty figures remain attributed to Iranian reporting rather than independently verified. Iran subsequently launched ballistic missiles toward US sites in Jordan. Iranian state television broadcast what it described as the launches, while Jordan's armed forces said its air defences intercepted eight missiles that entered Jordanian airspace early on 31 August. A US official told Axios that several missiles were launched but none struck a US base and no damage or casualties were reported. The retaliation is therefore documented as a missile launch and interception, not as a successful strike on a base or energy facility. The Larak targets were military, but the reported mine-launch preparations directly concerned the security of the Strait of Hormuz oil-shipping corridor. The public accounts did not establish the weapon used by the United States, damage beyond the two launchers or any strike on oil infrastructure. The marker remains an approximate Larak Island reference rather than a verified impact coordinate.

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