Iran war day 120: Tehran condemns US strikes, says it violates MoU

The US says it targeted Iranian rocket and drone retention locations portion the IRGC said it deed US subject sites successful the region.

The United States and Iran person traded strikes for the archetypal clip since signing a memorandum of knowing (MoU) past week, raising tensions days earlier the 2 sides are acceptable to conscionable for the adjacent circular of talks.

The US subject said it carried retired the strikes successful retaliation for a drone onslaught connected a cargo vessel a time earlier successful the Strait of Hormuz. This came aft US President Donald Trump accused Iran of carrying retired that attack.

Iranian authorities media reported that a projectile struck adjacent a pier successful the metropolis of Sirik adjacent the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said Qeshm land has besides been hit.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it targeted locations successful the portion wherever US forces are deployed successful retaliation for the Trump administration’s latest attack.

Here’s what we cognize arsenic the struggle enters time 120.

In Iran

• Iran’s Foreign Ministry has condemned the US strikes. “The US attacks targeting coastal surveillance facilities interruption Article 1 of the Memorandum of Understanding.”
• Iran’s IRGC Navy, successful a statement, said it responded to the US strikes connected Friday by targeting US subject sites successful the region. “In effect to this enactment of aggression, the Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeted the deployment sites of the US subject successful the region,” the connection said. There were nary reports of US targets being attacked by the clip of publication.
• Iran’s IRGC accuses the US of violating commitments nether the MoU successful its latest attacks, adding that the woody gives Tehran power implicit ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz – a planetary vigor chokepoint.
• An Iranian MP says US strikes connected Iran during the talks exposed Washington’s deficiency of committedness to diplomacy and ceasefire understandings. Ebrahim Azizi, the caput of parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, said connected X that the US “once again attacked Iran successful the mediate of negotiations”.
• Iran’s Mehr quality bureau quoted the caput of ports astatine eastbound Hormozgan arsenic saying that nary harm has been caused to the larboard of Sirik successful Hormozgan state pursuing the US attacks.

In the US

• US Central Command (CENTCOM) said it targeted Iranian rocket and drone retention locations, arsenic good arsenic coastal radar sites.
• The US subject posted a video of its evident strikes connected Iran, a fewer hours aft CENTCOM said it carried retired attacks.
• US Vice President JD Vance has warned that “violence volition beryllium met with violence” aft Washington conducted strikes connected Iran.
• The US State Department has released the substance of a model woody reached betwixt Lebanon and Israel successful Washington, DC. The model states that Israel’s subject volition “progressively redeploy retired of the Lebanese territory” erstwhile non-state actors, specified arsenic Hezbollah, are disarmed.
• The National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a nonprofit lobbying radical successful the US, says it is “dismayed and concerned” by the onslaught connected the vas successful Hormuz and the US military’s effect of strikes connected Iran. “The US and Iran person started a diplomatic process and should usage diplomatic channels to rise disputes, not bombs,” the NIAC wrote connected societal media.

In Lebanon

• After US-brokered talks, Israel and Lebanon person signed a “framework agreement” that Washington says aims to extremity the “cycle of endless conflict”.
• Lebanese radical Hezbollah has rejected the deal, with 1 person saying it volition lone “serve the interests” of Israel.
• Amid protests successful Beirut, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr explains that those who are against the Israel-Lebanon model statement person said it volition not extremity Israel’s concern of confederate Lebanon. “The connection withdrawal is not successful [the] text,” she noted successful a station connected X. “Instead, the model stipulates that Israeli forces volition ‘redeploy retired of the Lebanese territory’ erstwhile non-state actors – specified arsenic Hezbollah – are disarmed.”

The Strait of Hormuz

• President Trump connected Friday described the onslaught connected a commercialized vessel adjacent the Strait of Hormuz arsenic a “foolish usurpation of our Ceasefire Agreement”.
• Iranian authoritative Ebrahim Azizi responded to Trump’s societal media post, saying Iran governs the strait and that ships should “respect the rules” and “use unafraid routes”.
• Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has said that the UN hopes to spot a “sustained” opening of the Strait of Hormuz. “I deliberation it’s important that everybody unrecorded up to what they’ve committed to successful each statement that is signed,” Dujarric told reporters successful New York.
• Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar Atas, reporting from Tehran, said determination were discussions astir a enactment of connection betwixt the United States and Iran to someway tackle the tensions successful the strait. “But the IRGC contiguous has said that determination is nary specified connection line; it is not established, and volition not be,” helium said.
• Al Jazeera’s Atas said Tehran sees the Strait of Hormuz arsenic its “biggest leverage” successful negotiations with the US. “For the Iranians, it’s a strategical determination to asseverate power and sovereignty implicit the Strait of Hormuz. Because, for Tehran, the Strait of Hormuz is the eventual deterrence and besides the biggest leverage that Tehran has connected the negotiating table,” helium said.