Welcome to the News Hour. The U.S. and Iran have exchanged fire in the Strait of Hormoz,

with the top Iranian military command accusing the Americans of violating the now-month-old ceasefire.

The U.S. says the truce remains in effect. Nick Schiffren's reporting out this late-breaking story,

and he joins me now. So, Nick, there's a lot we don't yet know, but what are your sources telling you?

The U.S. military now says an Iranian official is confirming to me tonight what is perhaps

the most serious exchange of fire since the ceasefire.

But U.S. officials tell me, an Iranian official says that he believes this is true also,

that this is not designed to end the ceasefire.

This is not the restarting of the war.

So a U.S. official tells me that earlier two U.S. destroyers were transiting through the Strait of Hormuz,

and that's when, according to this statement, released by the military's Middle East command,

Sentcom eliminated inbound threats and targeted

Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U.S. forces, including missile and drone

launch sites, command and control locations, and intelligence surveillance, and reconnaissance

knows. Now, that is important. That list at the end there is important, because that's a relatively

long list of targets that the U.S list at the end there is important because that's a relatively long list of targets

that the U.S. targeted in response to this attack.

Those areas that the U.S. targeted include Bandaabas, where an Iranian official tells me the strikes

hit the port, the loading dock, and a garrison, also targeted right across from B Bandarabad, Ghashma, and just across

from there, Minab. A U.S. official insists that this is not the restarting of the war, that this is a

response to Iranian attacks at those two destroyers that were transiting the strait, which, by the way,

was not a normal occasion. The destroyers

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