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Opening summary: US announces it will launch ninth night of attacks against Iran
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us army says strikes have begun their ninth night IranianAn interim agreement aimed at ending the war appears to have nearly collapsed.
The attacks will continue to weaken Iran’s military capabilities to attack commercial ships and civilian sailors. Strait of Hormuz” US Central Command He said it on X on Sunday.
Sunday’s attacks followed the killing of a US soldier. Iraq According to the US military’s statement, two American soldiers were killed during the “controlled explosion” of an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle the other day. Jordan on Friday.
The US military announced on Saturday that the attacks on Iran were carried out with the aim of “swiftly punishing” the country. Revolutionary Guards Iran’s religious leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei made a statement about the Jordanian attack, while saying that the USA would pay the price for trying to “escalate” the conflict.
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Bahrain’s interior ministry said air raid sirens were sounding throughout the night until Monday. “Citizens and residents are asked to remain calm and go to the nearest safe place,” it said in X. Bahrain, which hosts the US Fifth Fleet, has been the target of Iranian attacks in recent days.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said on Monday it had launched a “surprise attack” on an enemy command center in Syria.in a statement reported by state news agency Irna. Irna said on Telegram that the attack was carried out “to avenge the blood of soldiers martyred in Iranshahr”, a city in southeastern Iran.
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Iran says it targeted two US bases in Kuwait in response to intensifying attacks for more than a weekTehran says it hit transportation and infrastructure facilities, including a nuclear power plant under construction.
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Kuwait and Bahrain bore the brunt of Iran’s attacks Despite a ceasefire and memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran regarding their Gulf neighbors since the resumption of hostilities this month.
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Jordan also reported that the missiles were seizedIt comes a day after the US military said two soldiers were killed there on Friday and another went missing while “defending against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks.”
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US Central Command announced that a soldier died during the controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance on an Iranian UAV shot down in Northern Iraq. The number of confirmed American military deaths since the start of the war rises to 17. Iran’s Ministry of Health said on Saturday: 50 people were killed More than 500 people were injured in US attacks on the country in the last three weeks.
