The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday strongly condemned the latest U.S. “military aggression” earlier in the day against Iran.

According to the ministry, the United States carried out “brutal” attacks on regions south of Iran early Wednesday following the crash of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz on Monday night.

It is a “flagrant violation” of the UN Charter, it said in a statement.

The Iranian armed forces, in line with exercising their legitimate right to self-defence, dealt “severe blows” to U.S. bases and assets in the West Asia region, it added.

The ministry said it was in response to the blatant violation of Iran’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity.

It also urged regional countries to prevent any use of their territories and facilities for designing, organising, perpetrating and supporting “acts of aggression” against Iran, warning of retaliatory actions.

The ministry said following the attacks, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi made separate phone calls to his Turkish and Saudi counterparts over the latest regional developments.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) confirmed earlier in the day that it had carried out missile and drone strikes against U.S. bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan.

The U.S. Central Command said on social media platform X early that its forces had completed “self-defence” strikes against Iranian targets in response to the “downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter.”

It added that the operation was a “proportional response to recent attacks on U.S. forces and international commercial ships transiting regional waters.”

(Xinhua/NAN)