New blasts reported in south Iran The semi-official Iranian news agency Mehr is reporting new explosions in the city of Jask, in the southern province of Hormozgan. Earlier, Iranian television reported that strikes hit two water tanks in the Bemani District, located in the same province, leading to a disruption of drinking water in the area.

Thousands of Iranians in the southern port town of Sirik have lost access to drinking water after US strikes hit two reservoirs in the area, Iranian state media said on Wednesday. The United States carried out strikes on the southern cities of Jask and Sirik and on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, after what Washington said was Iran’s downing of a US Army Apache helicopter over Gulf waters. The strikes damaged two reservoirs supplying the Bemani and Kouhestak areas of Sirik...