The U.S. and Iran have returned to exchanging intense strikes.
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.
Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries.
The U.S. and Iran have nonetheless continued to exchange relatively limited strikes despite the signing of the memorandum and amid the continuation of peace talks, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz the primary flashpoint.
The U.S. announced another round of strikes on Iran on Friday for the seventh consecutive night, according to U.S. Central Command.
"The strikes are designed to continue degrading Iranian military capabilities at the Commander in Chief's direction," CENTCOM said.
The U.S. also redirected four commercial vessels, disabled one and boarded on in its naval blockade on Iran, CENTCOM said.
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 claims it targeted a U.S. military base in eastern Syria on Friday, which would be the first known attack by Iranian forces on Syrian territory since the U.S. and Israel jointly launched a war against Iran earlier this year.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it carried out a "surprise attack" on a U.S. special operations command center at al-Tanf near Syria's southeastern borders with Iraq and Jordan in response to the killing of Iranian soldiers in the southeastern Iranian city of Iranshahr, according to Iran's state broadcaster IRIB. ABC News cannot independently verify the claim.
In February, the U.S. military said it had completed a withdrawal from the so-called al-Tanf Garrison, which "was a key base along a southern highway that was a main smuggling route for Iranian weapons flowing into Syria and particularly Hezbollah in Lebanon."
At least one child was injured by shrapnel in Qatar during interception operations on Friday local time, according to the Qatar Interior Ministry.
The ministry said in an X post that the child is receiving "necessary medical care."
-ABC News' William Gretsky
