US launches strikes on Iran for a second day after Trump says agreement to end the war is ‘over’ | US-Israel war on Iran
The US military launched an attack on Iran for a second day, hours after President Donald Trump said the interim agreement to end the war was “over”.
Late Wednesday, Iranian state media reported explosions in the Strait of Hormuz port city of Bandar Abbas; in Sirik, another southern coastal city; and southwestern Bushehr province, home to Iran’s nuclear power plant complex.
Trump wrote on Truth Social: “This is revenge for Iran bombing ships yesterday. If it happens again, it will be much worse!”
US Central Command confirmed the attacks with a post on
Three cargo ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz were attacked on Tuesday, sparking the most intense fighting between the two sides since an interim agreement was signed last month. The US Treasury also lifted a temporary sanctions exemption for Tehran’s oil exports.
The latest tensions have dashed hopes that the memorandum of understanding signed between the two sides on June 17 would be turned into a permanent agreement to end the war.
After attacking US military facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait on Wednesday, Iran targeted them again on Thursday, with sirens blaring at least twice in Bahrain, home to the US Navy’s 5th Fleet headquarters.
There was no immediate word on the damage. The Kuwaiti military said it was actively intercepting incoming drones and missiles.
An unnamed US official told Reuters that the overnight attacks were expected to be larger than those in the first round.
Iranian state television reported that other explosions were heard on Abu Musa Island. The island is one of three small islands claimed by the United Arab Emirates and which form the backbone of Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s Mehr news agency reported that the attacks on the Bushehr province in southern Iran did not damage the Bushehr nuclear power plant.
U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday and Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, rose more than 5% to near $80 a barrel; The economic effects of the war continue to reverberate around the world.
US senator Bernie Sanders said of Trump’s action: “Restarting his reckless war with Iran will not make America stronger. It will cost more lives and waste more taxpayer dollars.” Sanders added in his post about
After Iran targeted several commercial ships off the coast of Oman, the United States hit various military sites and port facilities in its first round of attacks.
Earlier, at the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump said that the US would “probably strike”. [Iran] “Tonight is difficult again,” he said, later adding that the latest attacks would not result in “long-term” military action.
“Whatever happens will happen very quickly,” Trump said, but also suggested that the US military could “get the job done.”
Speaking on the sidelines of the summit, the US president said that the attacks continued in retaliation for Iran’s attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
“They are behaving very badly,” he said, accusing the country of launching drones and missiles at ships.
Iran claimed that the temporary ceasefire agreement gave it the right to manage traffic in the strait.
Parliament speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, a key negotiator in talks on a permanent end to the war, wrote of X: “The era of tyranny and extortion is over. It is going nowhere. We are not giving up.”
On his return trip from the NATO summit, Trump denied that security concerns about Iran were behind his surprise decision to fly part of the trip on an old Air Force One rather than on a new jet gifted by Qatar.
Asked if he was aware of any credible threat from Iran to Air Force One, Trump dodged the question.
“I constantly receive threats. I am number one on their list,” he said.
The new attacks come as Iranians prepare to bury religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the US-Israeli offensive that started the war, in his hometown of Mashhad in Iran’s northeast.
The funeral of the religious leader took place after a funeral ceremony that lasted several days, attended by millions of mourners in various cities of both Iran and Iraq.
