US has struck nearly 200 Iranian targets over last 72 hours: CENTCOM

In a press conference on Thursday evening, officials revealed that in the last 72 hours, the US has struck nearly 200 targets within Iran as Operation Epic Fury remains ongoing. 

CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper told reporters, "Our air dominance allows us to hit Iran’s center of gravity with overwhelming power and reach. A couple of examples: In just the last 72 hours, America’s bomber force has struck nearly 200 targets deep inside of Iran, including around Tehran."

"And in just the last hour, US B-2 bombers dropped dozens of 2,000-pound penetrator bombs targeting deeply buried ballistic missile launchers. Notably, we’ve also struck Iran’s equivalent of Space Command. This degrades their ability to threaten Americans."

Cooper said that Iranian ballistic missile attacks have decreased by 90 percent since day one of the operation, and drone attacks have decreased by 83 percent. 

"Having said this, we remain vigilant. Our strikes against the Iranian Navy have intensified. You may have heard the President say just a little while ago that we have sunk or destroyed 24 ships. That was true at the moment. We’re now up over 30 ships, and in just the last few hours, we hit an Iranian drone carrier, a ship roughly the size of a World War II air carrier, and as we speak, it’s on fire."

He said that Trump gave the military "another task: to raze or level Iran’s ballistic missile industrial base. So we’re not just hitting what they have, we’re destroying their ability to rebuild. And so as we transition to the next phase of this operation, we will systemically dismantle Iran's missile production capability for the future, and that's absolutely in progress. This is going to take some time, but our forces are well supplied, as the Secretary said, and we are absolutely ready to prosecute this mission decisively."

He later added, "Our air defenders are operating at the very top of their game."

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that "Iran is hoping that we cannot sustain this, which is a really bad miscalculation for the IRGC in Iran. You see, there’s no shortage of American will here."

He later added, "Our commitment to our mission objectives only increases as our advantages continue to increase. We've got no shortage of munitions. Our stockpiles of defensive and offensive weapons allow us to sustain this campaign as long as we need to. Again, our munition status only increases as our advantage increases. Our capabilities, we have only just begun to fight and fight decisively."

"The amount of combat power that's still flowing, that's still coming, that we'll be able to project over Iran is a multiples of what it currently is right now, when you add up our capabilities and those of the Israeli Defense Forces, and we have no shortage of authorities."