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US Central Command said it attacked coastal defence and cruise missile sites on Iran's Greater Tunb Island around 1000 GMT.
Part of the monitored dynamic Israel–Iran Confrontation · VUCA INDEX 75/100
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INGESTED ARTICLETIER 3JUL 15
scmp.com — US launches more Iran strikes, hits oil tanker trying to break Hormuz blockade
"US Central Command said the military had attacked coastal defence systems and cruise missile storage and launch sites on Iran’s Greater Tunb Island starting around 1000 GMT"
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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from scmp.com · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 18.
Extracted JUL 16; approved JUL 18 at 0.55.
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