Major Update On Possible US-Iran Deal to End War

Hawkins, who declined to say which ships came under fire, where they were located, or precisely where the other U.S. strikes took place.

Some of the dozens of American warplanes and nearly two dozen Navy warships, including two aircraft carriers and their escort ships enforcing a blockade against vessels trying to enter or leave Iranian ports in or around the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, were threatened by Iranian surface-to-air missiles, a senior U.S. military official said.

The U.S. strikes were near the Iranian port and navy base at Bandar Abbas, the official said.

American and Iranian forces have clashed in other ways since a cease-fire took effect approximately six weeks ago.