The US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced, at dawn on Wednesday, that it had completed a series of military strikes that it carried out in response to the Iranian attack that targeted an American Apache helicopter. She confirmed that the operations were part of what she described as an “appropriate response” to the recent attacks. The command said, in a statement, that the strikes targeted Iranian air defense systems, ground control stations, and radar sites in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz, in addition to military surveillance sites, as part of what it considered an attempt to reduce the capabilities of the threat against American forces and commercial ships in the region. She added that the American forces "remain fully alert and ready" to confront any possible Iranian response, noting that the military operation also came in response to what it described as previous attacks targeting its forces and international commercial ships in the Gulf. The US Central Command had stated in a previous statement that carrying out military strikes against Iran came within the framework of "self-defense", against the backdrop of Iranian forces shooting down an American Apache helicopter in the Gulf of Oman. Trump had previously announced that the response to "the shooting down of the helicopter must be very strong."