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One US strike hit a home hosting a wedding, killing four people and wounding dozens, local officials said.   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The Iranian Red Crescent said on Tuesday that four people including a child were killed and over 50 people were wounded by a US strike on a home hosting a wedding in the south. Washington hit Iranian targets on Sunday in its first known strikes in several weeks, after which Tehran's forces targeted US troops in (https://www.france24.com/en/tag/jordan/) Jordan and the (https://www.france24.com/en/tag/united-arab-emirates/) United Arab Emirates , and projectiles struck two oil tankers in unclaimed attacks. More US strikes came on Tuesday, with Iranian state television reporting that explosions were heard in the country's south along the strategic (https://www.france24.com/en/tag/strait-of-hormuz/) Strait of Hormuz waterway and on an island in the Gulf, and that US forces hit an airport in the southern province of Kerman. The official IRNA news agency said that "four projectiles hit areas within the counties of Chabahar and Konarak", without specifying whether there was any damage. 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Trump said the "large and powerful" strikes were "in retaliation for the Iranians' failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait" and "the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down, at our Military Base in Jordan". "If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level," he said in a post on his Truth Social platform. Read more (https://www.france24.com/en/strait-of-hormuz-accessibility-at-the-centre-of-us-iran-war-flare-up) Strait of Hormuz accessibility at the centre of US-Iran war flare-up  Revolutionary Guards spokesman Hossein Mohebi warned on X that Washington "will regret its new attacks", saying that "severe punishment awaits the aggressors". 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