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U.S. Central Command released video of a U.S. airstrike that it says destroyed a port surveillance tower that has been used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps “to track and target commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.”

Iran has previously described the tower as a civilian structure.

“On July 16, U.S. forces successfully destroyed the Chah Bahar Shahid Kalantari Port surveillance tower, part of a maritime surveillance network along Iran’s Gulf of Oman coastline used for decades by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to track and target commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz,” CENTCOM said.

“The destruction of the tower directly degrades IRGC’s ability to coordinate attacks on innocent civilian crew members. Furthermore, the strike protects freedom of navigation in regional waters for all vessels, except for ships attempting to violate the ongoing U.S. naval blockade against Iran,” CENTCOM said.

Iran claimed Friday that the U.S. struck a railroad station and civilian airport.

In response, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command said the U.S. does not strike at civilians.

“The US military never targets civilians unlike Iran which has repeatedly attacked innocent mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz and civilians in neighboring gulf countries,” according to Capt. Tim Hawkins, a CENTCOM spokesman.

In the recent wave of airstrikes CENTCOM has acknowledged U.S. forces have struck at military infrastructure facilities.

The distinction being that the U.S. may see facilities that Iran says are civilian in nature, but that CENTCOM says are being used by the IRGC to target shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait all reported fresh Iranian attacks on Monday.

The UAE Defense Ministry said in a post to X that its forces intercepted an unspecified number of Iranian missiles and drones. In Abu Dhabi — one of the country’s seven constituent emirates — the official government media office said one Indian national was injured by “debris falling in the Al Shawamekh area following the successful interception of a ballistic missile.”

The Saudi Arabian Defense Ministry said its forces intercepted several Iranian drones over the country’s eastern region on Monday. Iran also fired two ballistic missiles toward the Riyadh region, the ministry said, one of which was intercepted and the other of which fell in an uninhabited area.

Bahrain’s Defence Force said in a post to X on Monday morning that it had intercepted another 32 Iranian drones and two ballistic missiles.

In Kuwait, the Defense Ministry said in a post to X in the early hours of Monday that air defenses were responding to “hostile missile and drone attacks.”

Iran has not reached an agreement to return to negotiations with the U.S. on its nuclear program and no date for a potential meeting to re-start the negotiations has been set, the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Iranian state TV Thursday.

Araghchi said speculation about negotiations resuming should not be taken seriously.

“I would like to state clearly that no agreement, appointment or conversation has been made to start new negotiations,” Araghchi said.

Araghchi also said the negotiations between the U.S. and Iran will only be more difficult after the U.S. and Israel’s military actions.

“The next negotiations won’t be any easier for the Americans compared to the previous ones,” Araghchi said. “Human beings have been killed for it. It’s not possible to make an agreement on it as easy as before.”

Iran’s foreign minister said on Thursday that his country’s nuclear facilities were not completely destroyed and suggested Tehran still holds some leverage in potential future negotiations over its nuclear program.

“They thought they would completely destroy our nuclear facilities and leave our hands empty in negotiations, then say, ‘Come to negotiate.’ This didn’t happen,” Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister said on Iranian State TV.

“The same won’t happen with snapback, meaning it’s not that the Europeans’ hands will be full; on the contrary, their hands will be completely empty,” he added.

Snapback is the term to describe the mechanism in the 2015 nuclear agreement that would quickly reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran if it didn’t meet its nuclear commitments. The UK, France, Germany, Russia and China can trigger the mechanism if they find Iran in violation of the agreement. The U.S. lost that ability when President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal in his first term.

Araghchi also described what a potential nuclear agreement might look like even after the military strikes by the U.S. and Israel.

“Any potential agreement should have two main pillars: enrichment in Iran and the lifting of sanctions. On the other hand, there could also be another pillar, which is Iran’s commitment to not moving towards a nuclear weapon,” he said. “This is because it aligns with our standards, principles, and beliefs. We have no problem with this either. Therefore, if these three axes exist in any agreement, in our view, the possibility of reaching that agreement exists. Now, the details can be discussed.”