Iranian state media reported explosions at Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island during the night of 19 July, the same hours as the strikes in Khuzestan, and named no attacker 1 2. Bandar Abbas is Iran's principal Gulf port and the home of its naval command on the Strait of Hormuz; Qeshm lies immediately offshore, the largest island in the strait and a site Iran has used for missile and fast-boat basing.
Both have been hit before in this war. CENTCOM hit the port in a wider overnight wave on 14 July . What is missing here is the attribution: Iranian outlets described blasts without assigning them, and no US statement has claimed the sites.
That gap is worth holding open rather than closing. Explosions in a port under repeated attack can come from incoming munitions, from air defence firing, or from stored ordnance and damaged plant. Until either government itemises the night, the honest reading is that something detonated at two of Iran's most contested coastal locations and nobody with direct knowledge has said what.
