DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran again launched drone and rocket attacks targeting Bahrain and Kuwait connected Sunday pursuing caller U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic Republic, and threatened a “complete halt” successful negotiations to extremity the warfare if Washington continues its attacks.
Efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz without Iran’s oversight has sparked days of crossfire. A multinational maritime assemblage overseen by the U.S. Navy said Saturday it would grow a way adjacent Oman for inbound and outbound traffic.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi connected Sunday reiterated the assertion that Tehran indispensable govern the strait to the Persian Gulf that erstwhile carried a 5th of the world’s lipid and earthy gas.
“Any effort to found caller oregon abstracted arrangements from those presently being carried retired by the Islamic Republic of Iran volition lone pb to further complications, hold the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and summation the level of tension,” Araghchi said.
The strait has agelong been considered an planetary waterway contempt its determination successful Iran and Oman’s territorial waters. In caller days, Iran has doubly attacked vessels going done a way adjacent the Omani side.
Pakistan, a cardinal mediator, has said talks would resume Tuesday betwixt the U.S. and Iran connected the presumption of their interim deal. The Trump medication connected Sunday said thing has been canceled and method talks are connected way for the coming days.
Talks see arrangements astir the strait, the removal of a U.S. blockade connected Iranian ports and sanctions connected Iran, and the aboriginal of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium. The 2 sides person 60 days from their signing of the memorandum of knowing earlier this period to enactment retired details.
Continued struggle successful Lebanon threatens the agreement, which says warring indispensable extremity connected each fronts earlier definite issues tin beryllium discussed.
Strikes people Gulf states hosting US military
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard claimed work for the attacks successful Bahrain and Kuwait.
Kuwait, which hosts a large U.S. subject base, said aerial defenses intercepted Iranian drones and 2 missiles conscionable aft the U.S. strikes successful Iran. There were nary reports of injuries oregon damage.
Bahrain said the Iranian strikes damaged a residential gathering adjacent the planetary airdrome and nary 1 was killed. Bahrain is location to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet. The damaged gathering was not adjacent its headquarters.
Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry denounced what it called “a unsafe escalation that reveals that what Tehran is doing is not a passing act, nor an isolated incident, but alternatively a deliberate attack and a systematic signifier of repeated aggression.”
Later connected Sunday, Qatar said a civilian had been killed, and different idiosyncratic was hurt, by shrapnel related to “military operations successful the area” aft a vas didn’t instrumentality astatine its scheduled clip connected Saturday. It did not springiness details.
Trump accuses Iran of violating ceasefire
The U.S. subject said it struck Iranian subject “surveillance infrastructure, connection systems, aerial defence sites, drone retention facilities and minelayer capabilities” pursuing an onslaught connected a vessel connected Saturday. The Panamanian-flagged tanker Kiku carried crude lipid for the state-run vigor institution of Qatar, different cardinal mediator.
U.S. President Donald Trump connected societal media accused Iran of violating the woody and warned of a constituent wherever the U.S. whitethorn “be forced to militarily implicit the job.”
“If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran volition nary longer exist!” Trump wrote.
The exchanges of occurrence began erstwhile an Iranian drone struck a merchant vas disconnected Oman connected Thursday and the U.S. subject retaliated.
Ship postulation connected the strait had accrued implicit the past 72 hours, “despite the elevated menace environment,” the multinational maritime assemblage overseen by the U.S. Navy said Sunday, adding that “U.S.-assisted commercialized transits continued uninterrupted.”
It said 89 specified transits had been made, beneath the humanities mean of 138 vessels a day.
Iran calls for caller ‘conflict power unit’ successful Lebanon
Last week, Israel and Lebanon signed a model statement to extremity the latest warring betwixt Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group, which began 2 days aft the Iran warfare started erstwhile Hezbollah fired astatine Israel. Israel has responded with an penetration of confederate Lebanon and it has said it volition not retreat until Hezbollah is disarmed.
The statement did not see Iran oregon Hezbollah, which has criticized it and rejected calls to disarm.
On Sunday, Iran’s overseas curate again said the U.S. indispensable unit Israel to halt attacks and withdraw. Israel occupies astir 600 quadrate kilometers (231 quadrate miles) successful confederate Lebanon, which it says it needs arsenic a information buffer.
Sporadic clashes person continued, and Hezbollah’s person said Saturday that the radical would proceed warring until Israel withdraws from Lebanon.
Key Iranian negotiator and parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said Sunday that a gathering of a caller “conflict power unit” formed among Iran, the United States and Lebanon should conscionable arsenic soon arsenic possible, Iran’s authorities broadcaster reported.
Two strikes deed confederate Lebanon connected Sunday greeting — 1 successful Taybeh municipality and the different successful the Nabatiyeh area, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency. There was nary contiguous connection connected casualties.
Overnight, Hezbollah militants killed an Israeli worker successful Deir Siryan colony successful confederate Lebanon, according to Israel’s military. Hezbollah did not comment.
Israel targets a colony successful Syria
Israel’s subject targeted Abdin colony successful confederate Syria’s Daraa state with artillery shelling Sunday evening, Syrian authorities media reported. There was nary contiguous study of casualties.
The provincial authorities of Daraa said successful a connection that residents of the colony had thrown rocks astatine an Israeli convoy erstwhile it precocious connected the village, and that the troops withdrew aft U.N. peacekeepers intervened. It said the Israeli artillery shelling drove Abdin’s residents to fly the village.
Earlier connected Sunday, Israel’s subject said it had killed respective equipped men successful confederate Syria but gave nary details. There was nary connection from Syrian officials.
Israel seized power of a U.N.-patrolled buffer portion successful confederate Syria successful December 2024 pursuing the ouster of erstwhile Syrian President Bashar Assad successful an insurgent offensive. Israeli officials initially called the determination temporary, but much precocious they person said they program to inhabit the portion indefinitely.
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Lidman reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. Associated Press writers Sally Abou AlJoud and Abby Sewell successful Beirut and Josh Boak successful Washington contributed to this report.
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