SriLanka, July 18 -- The US military says it is carrying out the seventh night of strikes on Iran since US President Donald Trump declared the temporary ceasefire agreement was "over".

"The strikes are designed to continue degrading Iranian military capabilities at the Commander in Chief's direction," the US military Central Command (Centcom) said in a statement.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said two oil tankers had exploded in the Strait of Hormuz while passing through a mined part of the shipping channel - a claim later dismissed as false by Centcom.

Iranian media reported that explosions were heard in the central city of Yazd and at Qeshm island and the port of Bandar Abbas next to the strait.

Iran's state-run Fars agency sai...