Trump and Iran trade new threats after strikes exchanged

US President Donald Trump and Iran's elder officials person traded caller threats of further action, aft the 2 sides exchanged strikes.

Trump said Tehran had taken "too agelong to negociate a deal" and would present "have to wage the price", without giving circumstantial details. He said Iran had been "completely defeated" and was "all speech and nary action".

It came aft Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi earlier warned his state would "leave nary onslaught oregon menace unanswered", saying that the US had suffered "defeats connected the battlefield".

The US said it struck Iranian sites connected Wednesday aft a US service chopper was downed successful the Gulf. In response, Iran launched strikes astatine US bases successful the region.

Iranian defence systems, crushed power stations and radar sites were targeted adjacent the Strait of Hormuz, the US subject Central Command (Centcom) said.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it launched strikes connected 21 targets astatine US bases successful the region, 1 successful Bahrain and the different successful Jordan, portion Kuwait's service said it was besides intercepting an attack.

Writing connected Truth Social connected Wednesday, Trump said: "Iran's Military is simply a implicit and full mess. Much of it, similar their Navy and Air Force, doesn't adjacent beryllium anymore - They person been wholly defeated."

He added: "They've taken excessively agelong to negociate a woody that would person been large for them, present they volition person to wage the price!!!"

Trump's comments were successful opposition to Tuesday, erstwhile helium told journalists the US and Iran were "in the last throes of what volition beryllium a very, precise bully deal".

Also connected Wednesday, Iran's overseas ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqai accused the US of "damaging this diplomatic process done the contradictory messages it sends, its repeated shifts successful positions and demands, and, worst of all, done repeated violations of the ceasefire".

He said Iran needed to re-assess the situation, adding that immoderate diplomatic process required a minimum of stability.