US military carries out new strikes on Iranian targets as hostilities flare

US President Donald Trump launched new air strikes on Iran on Tuesday, the latest chapter as the president has swung in recent weeks between economic and military pressure tactics, all the while claiming that Tehran was on its heels. US Military Central Command announced on social media that the attacks were in response to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s recent attempted attacks on commercial ships in the strategic Strait of ‌Hormuz and against American service ‌members deployed ‌to…