Iran retaliates after US strikes kill four at wedding party, state media reports - BBC

• 01Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei accused the US of a war crime after a missile strike killed four people, including two children, at a wedding in Kuhestak, Sirik.
• 02The Iranian Red Crescent Society reported that shrapnel from a missile hit a residential building during a wedding ceremony, killing Zarkhatoon Taheri, Kolsum Mallahi Nazhdnia, Mohammad Mallahi, and Amirali Karimi, and injuring 67 others.
• 03Ali Mallahi, the father of the bride, stated in a video broadcast by state TV that the incident occurred in his daughter's wedding ceremony at his residential building.
• 04US Central Command stated it never targets civilians and attributed US strikes on Iran to recent attempted attacks by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps against American forces and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
• 05Iran launched missiles and drones at US targets in Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates in response to US strikes, claiming damage at Camp Tilsitt in Jordan and facilities in Irbil, Iraq, though US officials reported no casualties in Jordan.
• 06The Jordanian Armed Forces stated they engaged 13 ballistic missiles, destroying 10, while the remaining three fell in uninhabited areas.
• 07Iranian military sources reported four IRGC aerospace members killed in Kermanshah and three Basij Resistance Force members killed on Lavan island during US attacks.
• 08BBC Verify confirmed destruction of a telecommunications tower near Kuhestak's coast, while BBC Persian Forensics found the tower was 112 meters from the house where the wedding was held.
• 09Iran's parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf described the US as "Satan" following the incident.
• 10Saudi Arabia's national shipping company reported two Filipino sailors were killed in a security incident involving its crude oil tanker SIDR in the Strait of Hormuz.

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The US and Iran escalated military hostilities following a US strike that Iranian authorities claimed killed four civilians, including children, at a wedding in southern Iran. Iran retaliated by launching ballistic missiles and drones at US military assets in Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the UAE, while US Central Command attributed its actions to Iranian aggression in the Strait of Hormuz. Both sides reported casualties and damage, with Iran accusing the US of war crimes and the US denying the targeting of civilians.