Video: US strikes cripple Chabahar maritime control tower to blunt Iran’s chokehold on Strait of Hormuz
Abdullateef Fowewe
Verified video shows severe damage to the maritime control tower at Iran’s strategic Chabahar port after overnight US strikes.
US Central Command described the operation as intended to impair Iran’s ability to monitor and control commercial shipping near the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global oil chokepoint.
The footage, authenticated by multiple verification groups, shows the tower’s upper structure collapsed, windows blown out and surrounding buildings scorched.
Local footage also captured blackouts sweeping parts of Chabahar and clouds of smoke rising from coastal installations.
The scenes echo earlier RT footage quoted by regional outlets that described “Armageddon-like” explosions, tower destruction and citywide power outages during the attacks.
The strikes are the latest escalation in a string of exchanges between Washington and Tehran this month.
US officials say the operations targeted coastal radar sites, anti-ship missile batteries, drone launch facilities, command-and-control nodes and fast attack craft used to harass commercial traffic.
Central Command has reported roughly 90 Iranian military and maritime targets struck in recent waves, a campaign it frames as necessary to protect freedom of navigation after Iran attacked or threatened commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s forces have defended their imposition of maritime routing and inspections in the strait as an assertion of sovereignty and a bargaining chip in stalled negotiations since the fragile June truce.
Tehran’s actions including reported strikes on tankers around July 6–7 prompted the US to adopt a more aggressive posture aimed at degrading Iran’s surveillance and interdiction capabilities in the area.
The destruction of Chabahar’s maritime tower is significant because the port sits outside the narrower Strait but serves as a hub for monitoring and directing traffic along Iran’s southeastern approaches.
