Jennifer Griffin, the senior national security correspondent for the Fox News news network, quoted a senior American official and reported that the latest military action on Kashem Island was not part of a new military campaign and declared: "A senior official told me that this action was only in response to Iran's shooting of an American military aircraft on Monday and does not mean the beginning of a large-scale attack by the United States."

Jennifer Griffin, the senior national security correspondent for the Fox News news network, quoted a senior American official and reported that the latest military action on Kashem Island was not part of a new military campaign and declared: "A senior official told me that this action was only in response to Iran's shooting of an American military aircraft on Monday and does not mean the beginning of a large-scale attack by the United States."