This is CNN Breaking News.

Welcome to a special edition of CNN Newsroom. I'm Brianna Keeler, and we have breaking news. Explosions, Rock Iran.

U.S. Central Command just confirming that U.S. forces targeted Iranian military facilities

responsible for launching a series of attacks against American warships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Iranian state media had reported blasts that were heard in the border city of Bandar Abbas.

That's home to a key Iranian naval and air base along the strait.

Iranian state media also reporting explosions in other cities as well.

The attacks coming as intense

discussions are underway tonight to end the war in Iran, but a deal is not in place. Iran's top

security official declaring tonight, quote, there will be no retreat. And there's this from

President Trump. These incredible men and women gave their lives to ensure that the world's number one state

sponsor of terror will never have a nuclear weapon.

Oh, and they won't.

They will never have a nuclear weapon.

Trump making that guarantee on this Memorial Day, but Iran's nuclear program remains a major sticking point

as the two sides are trying to hammer out an agreement. Iran so far refusing to make any

commitments on its nuclear program, insisting those discussions should take place at a later time,

even as Trump steps up the pressure. Moments ago, writing, the enriched uranium, nuclear dust,

will either be immediately turned over to the United States to be brought home and destroyed,

or preferably in conjunction and coordination with the Islamic Republic of Iran,

destroyed in place or at another acceptable location with the Atomic Energy Commission or its equivalent being

witnessed to this process and event.

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