File footage from a projectile near the town of Najha, Syria, Monday, June 8, 2026
US denies Iranian claims of striking civilian wheat silo
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- CENTCOM said its operations targeted only military infrastructure.
- Officials said July 14 strikes focused on degrading Iran's maritime threat capabilities.
- Washington accused Tehran of attacking civilian shipping and neighboring Gulf states.
US Central Command has rejected accusations from Tehran that American forces struck a civilian grain depot, calling the allegations "false" and releasing a list of the actual Iranian military positions targeted in a major wave of operations on July 14.
The official denial comes after Iranian state media and Khuzestan provincial officials claimed a US projectile hit a civilian wheat storage facility in Hoveyzeh County late Tuesday night, accusing Washington of deliberately targeting vital infrastructure.
Flat denial of civilian targeting
In a direct public pushback, US defense officials clarified that American combat aircraft and naval assets have focused exclusively on neutralizing Iran's offensive military capabilities.
CENTCOM flatly denied hitting the Hoveyzeh facility, framing the reports as an attempt by Tehran to deflect from its own regional actions.
"On July 14, US forces hit Iranian military targets in Bandar Abbas, Khormuj, Ahvaz, Qeshm, Tunb, Bushehr, and Kuh-e Stak," CENTCOM stated, listing the seven specific locations where weapons systems and command nodes were engaged.
According to the CENTCOM, these coordinates are active hubs used by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to coordinate attacks on international commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
CLAIM: Iranian state media claims that U.S. forces struck a civilian wheat storage facility in Hoveyzeh on July 14. This is FALSE.
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) July 15, 2026
TRUTH: On July 14, U.S. forces hit Iranian military targets in Bandar Abbas, Khormuj, Ahvaz, Qeshm, Tunb, Bushehr, and Kuh-e Stak to degrade… pic.twitter.com/n7Njez05lE
Escalating Gulf tensions
The dispute over the targets underscores the highly volatile nature of the current conflict, which has seen the US Navy reinstate a strict maritime blockade against Iranian ports while executing pre-emptive strikes to protect international shipping lanes.
While Tehran continues to decry the strikes as violations of national sovereignty, Washington has turned the focus back onto Iranian actions.
CENTCOM pointed out that while US forces are targeting active military systems, Iran and its regional proxies have systematically targeted civilian commercial tankers, as well as launching hostile drone and missile barrages toward neighboring Gulf nations.
