{"id":341028,"date":"2026-05-26T18:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=341028"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:37:44","slug":"u-s-says-it-carried-out-strikes-in-southern-iran-including-on-missile-sites-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/u-s-says-it-carried-out-strikes-in-southern-iran-including-on-missile-sites-national\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. says it carried out strikes in southern Iran, including on missile sites – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The U.S. military said Monday that it carried out \u201cself-defense\u201d strikes in southern Iran, including on missile launch sites and boats placing mines, whilst President Donald Trump said on social media that negotiations with Tehran were \u201cproceeding nicely.\u201d<\/p>\n

The strikes were done \u201cto guard our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces,\u201d however the military was \u201cusing restraint throughout the ongoing ceasefire,\u201d Capt. Tim Hawkins, the spokesman for the U.S. military\u2019s Central Command, said in an announcement.<\/p>\n

Further details weren’t immediately available, including more specifics on the threats from Iran and what this implies for negotiations. There was no official response from Iran, which had sent its parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf to Qatar for negotiations over the possible cope with the U.S.<\/p>\n

Qatar, which faced intense attacks from Iran throughout the war, holds billions of dollars in frozen Iranian funds.<\/p>\n

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In Iran, the news website Tabnak, believed to be near former Revolutionary Guard chief Mohsen Rezaei, identified 4 dead Guard troops it said had been killed in American strikes on boats. Iranian state television individually reported blasts around Bandar Abbas, a city on the Strait of Hormuz home to a military port and a dual-use airport.<\/p>\n

The strikes were the newest attacks to shake the weekslong ceasefire within the war. The Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of all crude oil and natural gas traded once passed, stays effectively in Iran\u2019s chokehold, disrupting global energy markets.<\/p>\n

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Earlier, Trump said any agreement to finish the Iran war should include a requirement for several additional countries, including Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, to affix the Abraham Accords, the U.S.-brokered agreements from Trump\u2019s first term geared toward normalizing relations with Israel.<\/p>\n

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The proposal got here because the emerging Iran deal faced criticism from fellow Republicans who favor a harder line on Iran, and it could add latest diplomatic complications to the negotiations.<\/p>\n

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Trump pointed to Saudi Arabia and Qatar as countries that ought to \u201cimmediately\u201d sign on. Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates became the primary countries to affix in 2020, diplomatically recognizing Israel.<\/p>\n

He wrote that \u201cin any case the work done by the USA to attempt to pull this very complex puzzle together, it ought to be mandatory that each one of those Countries, at a minimum, concurrently, sign onto the Abraham Accords.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has long hoped Saudi Arabia would join. Saudi Arabia particularly has for a long time called on Israel to return to its 1967 borders and permit the formation of a Palestinian nation with east Jerusalem as its capital. Israel\u2019s conduct within the war against Hamas within the Gaza Strip also has alienated Gulf Arab states and the broader Muslim world as well.<\/p>\n

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