The US military on early Thursday said that they completed ‘a heavy wave of strikes against Iran’ in response to an earlier attack by Iran on a US base in Jordan. The Central Command ⁠said the American strikes began on Thursday midnight ⁠and ended two hours past it. The strikes are a powerful response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attacks on U.S. forces based in the Middle East. Egypt’s petroleum ministry confirmed a fire at the port but did not mention a drone attack, says a report by the Times of Israel. First LNG gas tanker exits Strait of HormuzA Qatar Energy controlled LNG gas tanker safely made its exit via the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday midnight.