"US forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran's coastline near the Strait of Hormuz," Central Command said in a statement on X.

"US forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran's coastline near the Strait of Hormuz," Central Command said in a statement on X.

The alleged air raid comes in the backdrop of Iran shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway through which one-fifth of the world's oil flows.

Iranian Parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has meanwhile warned that the situation in the Strait of Hormuz will not return to its "pre-war state". "The Strait of Hormuz situation won't return to its pre-war status," he said in a post on X.