The US said Monday that it bombed radar and drone sites in Iran after Tehran shot down an American drone over the weekend. Iran then said it launched a strike of its own, and Kuwait reported incoming fire.
The nominal ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. has been repeatedly tested with such back-and-forth attacks, at the same time as officials from each countries try to barter an end to the war. It’s not clear how close they’re to a deal — and there’s at all times the danger that an attack could derail those talks.
Within the meantime, Iran has maintained its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, disrupting global energy supplies and driving up the value of fuel around the globe, with far-reaching consequences.
Fighting has also escalated between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, despite their nominal ceasefire. Israel has prolonged its occupation deep into Lebanon, and Hezbollah — which joined the war in support of its fundamental backer, Iran — continues to launch drones into Israel.
U.S. military attacks Iran
The U.S. military’s Central Command said it carried out the strikes in Iran on Saturday and Sunday around town of Geruk and on Qeshm Island.
“The measured and deliberate strikes occurred … in response to aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a U.S. MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters,” Central Command said.
“U.S. fighter aircraft swiftly responded by eliminating Iranian air defences, a ground control station, and two one-way attack drones that posed clear threats to ships transiting regional waters.”
Kuwait reports incoming fire
Kuwait said its air defences opened fire early Monday morning to intercept incoming drone and missile fire.
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Around the identical time, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said it responded to an American attack without saying where, likely referring to the attack on Kuwait. In an announcement carried by the state-run IRNA news agency, the Guard said that U.S. forces had targeted a telecommunications tower.
Kuwait is home to U.S. Army Central, the Mideast forward command for the Army. While the U.S. Air Force not flies the MQ-1 Predator, the U.S. Army still does.
Iranian state television later shared footage of the ballistic missile launch, including a close-up showing a sticker on its body depicting a bruised U.S. President Donald Trump overlaid on a “closed” Strait of Hormuz with the caption: “Until the last American soldier leaves the region.”
Attacks rattle ceasefire talks
The attacks represent the newest escalation between the U.S. and Iran. Over the weekend, the U.S. fired a missile into the engine room of a Gambia-flagged cargo ship attempting to break its blockade of Iranian ports.
A trickle of ships has made it out of the strait, through which a fifth of all traded oil and natural gas once passed, but pressure continues on global energy supplies, in addition to on chemical fertilizer. That has led to fears of food shortages. The Gulf region produces 30 per cent of worldwide traded chemical fertilizers.
Trump met with advisers on Friday but has yet to make your mind up on whether to maneuver ahead with a deal to increase the ceasefire and reopen the strait. Iran has said the deal had not been finalized.
The U.S. and Israel launched the war with strikes on Iran on Feb. 28. Trump has offered shifting goals for the conflict, although stopping Iran from constructing a nuclear weapon is amongst them. Iran has insisted its nuclear program is peaceful, though it has enough highly enriched uranium to construct several nuclear weapons, should it decide to accomplish that.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance suggested last week that negotiators try to strike general terms on Iran’s nuclear program, with the specifics to be hammered out in the following talks.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei on Monday again accused the U.S. of “always” changing its positions.
“From the start, we knew — and we proceed to know — that we’re negotiating in an environment of mistrust,” Baghaei told journalists.
Trump expressed optimism in regards to the talks in a post on his Truth Social platform early Monday in Washington.
“Iran really desires to make a deal, and it’s going to be an excellent one for the usA. and people which can be with us,” he wrote. “Just sit back and calm down, it’s going to all work out well ultimately — It at all times does!”
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