Iran attacks Bahrain, Kuwait and ships in Hormuz after new US strikes

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Tehran claims drone strikes connected bases successful Bahrain and Kuwait, arsenic US strikes Qeshm Island and ports on the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran has claimed attacks connected United States subject bases successful Bahrain and Kuwait and targeted 2 vessels successful the Strait of Hormuz successful retaliation for renewed US attacks connected the country.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it launched drone strikes connected Bahrain’s Sheikh Isa airbase and Kuwait’s Ali Al Salem and Ahmad Al-Jaber airbases aboriginal connected Thursday.

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Two lipid tankers that attempted “to illegally walk through” the Strait of Hormuz were besides hit, it said.

The IRGC accused the US of “repeated violations” of the April ceasefire and declared the Strait of Hormuz “closed until further notice”. It said each postulation successful the waterway, including lipid tankers and commercialized vessels, would beryllium affected.

The attacks came aft the US’s Central Command announced renewed strikes connected “multiple targets” wrong Iran. The subject said the attacks were connected President Donald Trump’s orders and “in effect to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression”.

Iranian authorities media reported explosions connected Qeshm Island and successful the cities of Bandar Abbas and Sirik on the Strait of Hormuz.

Blasts besides deed the confederate metropolis of Kargan, wounding astatine slightest 2 people.

The latest speech came a time aft the 2 sides traded tit-for-tat strikes implicit the downing of a US Apache chopper successful the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran said it targeted the US Fifth Fleet successful Bahrain, the Ali Al Salem airbase successful Kuwait, arsenic good arsenic an airbase successful Azraq, Jordan, connected Wednesday. The US, meanwhile, bombed Qeshm Island arsenic good arsenic the ports of Sirik, Jask and Bandar Abbas.

Tehran said the US attacks destroyed 2 h2o reservoirs and damaged a telecommunications tower.

At the White House connected Wednesday, Trump accused Iran of stalling negotiations for a bid woody and threatened to deed the state “very hard”.

“We’ll spot what happens with the deal. We were truly adjacent to a deal. But they support tapping america along. They support playing america for suckers,” helium told reporters.

Earlier successful the day, the US president wrote connected his Truth Social level that Iran had taken excessively agelong to negociate a bid woody and “now they volition person to wage the price”.

In a consequent interrogation with Fox News, helium besides threatened to onslaught powerfulness plants and bridges successful Iran if it was unwilling to motion an agreement.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian deed backmost successful a station connected X.

“Critical infrastructures are the lifeblood of the people. Threats to people them – from proscription networks to the energy and h2o industries – are not a amusement of spot but a motion of desperation successful the look of a nation’s will,” helium wrote.

“Iran, relying connected the cognition and capabilities of its specialists, nationalist unity, and solidarity, volition basal steadfast against immoderate unit oregon threat,” helium added.

The US-Iran escalation comes days aft Israel and Iran traded occurrence successful their astir superior clash since the April ceasefire, which ended weeks of devastating US-Israeli strikes connected Iran and Iranian retaliatory attacks crossed the Gulf.

Traffic done the Strait of Hormuz has remained constricted ever since, driving up lipid and nutrient prices worldwide.

Iran archetypal closed the waterway – done which one-fifth of the world’s vigor proviso flowed earlier the warfare – successful the aboriginal days of the conflict. It concisely lifted the restrictions earlier reinstating them aft the US imposed a blockade connected Iranian ports.

Progress towards a bid woody besides remains slow.

The 2 sides are engaged successful indirect talks aimed astatine securing an interim statement that would halt hostilities, portion deferring Iran’s atomic programme to aboriginal negotiations.

But sticking points remain, with Iran demanding the merchandise of frozen assets and alleviation from sanctions. Complicating matters further is Israel’s intensifying campaign successful Lebanon against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.

Iran maintains that immoderate bid woody with Washington indispensable see an extremity to warring successful Lebanon, portion Israel insists its run determination is simply a abstracted conflict.