US military attacks Iran for eighth consecutive night

On July 19, the US Central Command issued a statement on social media platforms saying that at 6 pm EST on July 18 (At 1:30 a.m. on July 19, Iran time, 6 a.m. Beijing time), the US military, at the order of President Trump, began to launch a new round of air strikes against Iran to "further weaken Iran's threat to commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, and quickly punish Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which launched an attack on US military personnel stationed in Jordan the day before."