The U.S. military launched strikes at Iran after Iran fired at a U.S. aircraft, according to a CBS News report that cited a senior U.S. official. The report said the strikes came after the Iranian fire.
CBS News attributed its account to a single senior U.S. official. The summary available for this story does not name that official or say how the official came to know the details, so the account rests on the official's account as relayed by CBS News.
CBS News reported that the strikes were launched at Iran, but the summary does not say how many strikes were carried out, which sites or forces were hit, or whether the aircraft that was fired upon sustained any damage. It also does not say whether anyone was injured or killed.
The summary describes the sequence only at a high level. It states that the strikes followed the Iranian fire at a U.S. aircraft, but it does not describe the timing between those events or whether the strikes were part of a single operation or several.
The summary includes no comment from Iranian officials. It also does not include any statement from the Pentagon or the White House, and it does not say whether any such statement was requested.
Because the material available for this report is limited to a short summary, the account should be read as a report of what a senior U.S. official told CBS News, not as an independently confirmed description of events. Any additional details would need to come from the full CBS News report or from further reporting on the matter.
Sources: CBS News: U.S. strikes Iranian targets.