Two accounts on X reported explosions and rising smoke in Bandar Lengeh, a city in Iran's Hormozgan Province, on 12 November. Both tied the events to U.S. airstrikes in the area. Neither report has been confirmed by an official source.
A post by @Osint613 said two large explosions had been heard in Bandar Lengeh following U.S. airstrikes on Sirik, another location in southern Iran 2. A separate post by @Worldsource24 said smoke plumes were rising in Bandar Lengeh after U.S. strikes 1.
Other claims attributed to @Osint613 go further. The account said initial reports indicated an air defense site was targeted in Bandar Lengeh. It also said that about 10 anti-ship cruise missiles or surface-to-air missiles had been launched from Bandar Abbas, citing another account, BeamTracker_. The excerpts of the posts available do not include these details, and they rest on a single account, so they remain unverified.
No deaths or injuries have been reported in connection with the Bandar Lengeh incident. Neither U.S. nor Iranian authorities have commented on it in the material available.
The reports follow an earlier incident on 12 November in which an explosion and a U.S. airstrike were reported in Sirik, near the Shahid Rahbari Naval Base in Hormozgan Province. That event was classed as reported rather than confirmed.
The region has seen other developments over the past 72 hours. Iran said it struck a U.S. radar site in Bahrain, a claim categorized as reported. Separately, an unconfirmed report said Israel had ordered military preparations for a possible attack on Iran, and that Tehran had threatened retaliation. Whether any of these events are linked to the Bandar Lengeh reports has not been established.
The posts do not give a precise location for the blasts within Bandar Lengeh, the type of munitions involved, or the identity of the forces responsible beyond the attribution to the United States.