US Airstrikes on Iran Appear to Have Damaged Chabahar Port

US airstrikes on Friday appeared to have collapsed a tower at Iran's Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman, a key trade route for Afghanistan. US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth shared the image of the surveillance tower appearing to collapse.

That image had circulated social media via activists prior to Hegseth sharing it. Chabahar port has been a repeated target of American airstrikes. Iranian state media acknowledged a third round of strikes on the facility without immediately acknowledging the tower's collapse. Iran described the tower as overseeing commercial traffic into the port.

However, Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard also operates at ports across the country.

Suspected attack by Iran on Iranian Kurdish dissident group in Iraq kills at least 9

A suspected attack by Iran on an Iranian Kurdish dissident group in northern Iraq killed at least nine people Friday, an official with the group said. The official with Komala, speaking on condition of anonymity due to security reasons, said others had been wounded in the strike.

Iran is believed to have carried out the attack, which included missiles and drones targeting the group in Zargwezala near Sulaymaniyah in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region, the official said. Iran did not immediately claim the attack, though it has carried out repeated assaults targeting Kurdish dissidents in Iraq.