President Trump ordered another wave of airstrikes against Iran Monday, marking the third consecutive night the US military has battered regime targets. 

“At 4:45 p.m. ET today, US Central Command began launching the third consecutive night of strikes against Iran, at the Commander in Chief’s direction,” read a statement released by the combatant command. 

“These strikes will continue imposing a heavy cost on Iranian forces and degrade their ability to attack innocent civilians and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” CENTCOM added. 

On Sunday night, US fighter aircraft, naval vessels, one-way attack aerial drones and one-way attack sea drones hit “dozens of targets at multiple locations,” according to CENTCOM, including Iranian military air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats. 

Trump teased the latest show of US military might earlier on Monday as he vowed to take control of the Strait of Hormuz.  

“We’re taking over the strait. They have nothing. They’ve got nothing,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” when asked about Iran’s claims to have closed the critical waterway.

“So we’re just going to hit them very hard, and we’re going to, we’re going to keep the strait, and we’ll probably run it,” the president later added. “We’ll become the guardian of the strait. Maybe we’ll call it the guardian angel of the strait, and we should be reimbursed for that … We guarded it for nothing, and now we’re going to guard it — we’re going to get paid for guarding it.”