US Commander Says AI Assisted US Strikes On Over 5,500 Targets In Iran

The provided article does not report a US commander saying AI assisted strikes on over 5,500 targets in Iran.

“The Israel Foreign Ministry said that Iranian proxy Hezbollah launched unprovoked rocket attacks from Lebanon, adding that Israeli civilians were the target”

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Instead, the CNBCTV18 snippet focuses on operational caution, noting that “humans still make the final decisions on what targets to strike and when to launch attacks,” which undercuts any unreferenced claim that strikes were fully autonomous or that a specific US commander made the 5,500-target claim.

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The snippet contains no explicit statement attributing large-scale AI-assisted strikes to a US commander, and therefore that claim cannot be verified from the supplied material.

The article emphasises the strategic and economic importance of the Strait of Hormuz and reports it has been effectively closed by the war; governments are reportedly “working on plans to quickly reopen it to oil tankers and other shipping once hostilities end.”

The piece frames reopening the narrow waterway as a priority for the global economy but conditions that on an end to hostilities and practical safety measures.

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Because the supplied material does not discuss any verified US commander statement about 5,500 AI-assisted strikes, the only verifiable operational detail here concerns maritime access and planning.

The supplied reporting relays strong warnings from retired naval officers about the risks of attempting to reopen the Strait before a ceasefire.

“The Israel Foreign Ministry said that Iranian proxy Hezbollah launched unprovoked rocket attacks from Lebanon, adding that Israeli civilians were the target”

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Retired French navy Vice Adm. Pascal Ausseur is quoted saying that sending warships or civilian vessels into the Strait “would be extremely risky,” and he is further quoted: “In today’s context, sending warships or civilian vessels into the Strait of Hormuz would be suicidal.”

Ausseur qualified that a ceasefire with Iran could reduce the danger from “suicidal” to merely “dangerous.”

The snippet also includes a diplomatic-security angle: Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon warned Lebanon it must act against Hezbollah or Israel would do so itself, comments made ahead of an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting on Lebanon and framed by Danon as an Israeli preference for diplomacy alongside insistence that Lebanon choose whether to confront Hezbollah.

This political detail in the article is unrelated to the unverified claim about US AI-assisted strikes and further illustrates the piece’s focus on regional escalation and maritime risk rather than detailed US strike assessments.

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