Iran condemns US strikes as a show of ‘bad faith’ and warns of consequences
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran condemned Tuesday US strikes a day earlier as a sign of “bad faith and unreliability” as negotiations continued. possible deal finish war.
The US military described Monday’s attacks in southern Iran as defensive, saying the targets were missile launch sites and mine-laying boats, and said the US was acting with “restraint” in light of a weeks-long ceasefire.
Iran’s foreign ministry called the attacks a ceasefire violation and warned that Washington would bear responsibility for “all consequences” without going into details.
The statement said, “The Islamic Republic of Iran will not leave any act of aggression unanswered.”
According to Iran’s official Mizan news agency, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which did not specify when the incident occurred, said it deterred drones and warplanes that entered its airspace on Tuesday by shooting them.
It was not immediately clear what the developments would mean for the negotiations. The attack came after Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagir Galibaf traveled to Qatar as part of talks that US President Donald Trump said were “progressing well” on Monday.
The strikes were the latest flare-up of a fragile ceasefire that began on April 7 and remains largely ongoing.
Part of the negotiations are focusing on the Strait of Hormuz, the key waterway to the south of Iran through which one-fifth of the world’s crude oil and natural gas passed before the war that began with US-Israeli attacks in February. Tehran retaliated by effectively closing the strait, stranding hundreds of ships and shocking the global economy.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations Center said an explosion was reported on a tanker in the Gulf of Oman, near the strait, on Tuesday morning. No one was injured in the explosion; There was no immediate information about the reason for this.
Closing the strait would not only disrupt energy markets, it would also squeezing fertilizer materials worldwide. The full effect may not become clear until harvest months later. “The decisions we make now will determine whether this remains a manageable shock or becomes a deeper global food security crisis in 2026, 2027 and beyond,” Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, warned at an event in Rome on Tuesday.
The Strait has become a powerful negotiating lever for Tehran over its involvement in Iran’s long-running nuclear program and highly enriched uranium issue. Iran, on the other hand, wants the military embargo imposed by the USA on Iranian ports on April 17 to be lifted.
“What we are witnessing today is not only a geopolitical crisis, but also a systemic shock to the global agri-food system,” Qu said in a statement on Tuesday.
Trump has brought a new perspective to war-related treaty negotiations, saying any agreement to end the war must include a requirement that many other countries, including Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, join the agreement. Abraham AccordsA series of US-brokered diplomatic, economic and security agreements aimed at normalizing relations with Israel.
Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates were the first countries to join in 2020; Sudan, Morocco and Kazakhstan followed. Egypt and Jordan already officially recognize Israel and have long-standing peace agreements. Türkiye recognized Israel for the first time in 1949.
Israel’s behavior towards the Palestinians, including the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, has alienated Gulf Arab states and the Muslim world, but Trump has been keen to build on the Abraham Accords established during his first term. He even suggested that Iran might eventually sign.
