By Collin Binkley
The Associated Press
June 26, 2026 - 10:10 am
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump connected Friday blamed Iran for carrying retired a drone onslaught connected a cargo vessel successful the Strait of Hormuz, calling it a “foolish violation” of the ceasefire statement with the U.S.
One drone damaged the precocious platform of the vessel but the vessel was capable to proceed, Trump said. The U.S. changeable down 3 different drones aimed astatine the ship, helium said.
His station connected societal media did not place the vessel oregon the clip of the strike, but connected Thursday the British subject said a vas was deed by a projectile disconnected the seashore of Oman.
The improvement comes during a fragile clip for the U.S. and Iran arsenic they enactment to negociate a imperishable extremity to the war. Iran has progressively challenged the portion and the U.S. implicit its power of the Strait of Hormuz, adjacent with the existent interim woody it reached with the U.S. past week.
A rocket informing successful the United Arab Emirates caused by a method glitch earlier Friday underscored the ongoing tensions successful the region, pursuing the onslaught connected the cargo vas and Israeli strikes successful Lebanon implicit the past fewer days.
The mobile telephone alert startled galore crossed the city-state of Dubai, the archetypal specified alert since the interim ceasefire.
The little substance alert that was sent from the UAE’s Interior Ministry connected Friday day was besides the archetypal of its benignant successful Dubai during the Iran war. However, alerts person gone disconnected successful the portion informing of incoming Iranian missiles and drones pursuing the commencement of the warfare connected Feb. 28, erstwhile the U.S. and Iran launched their strikes connected Iran.
A abbreviated clip aft the alert, the Emiratis said determination was a telephone telephone betwixt Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. It quoted Sheikh Abdullah arsenic telling Araghchi that the UAE “emphasized the value of afloat commitment” to the interim woody betwixt Iran and the U.S.
“Serious diplomacy and liable dialog are the optimal way for addressing each determination and planetary crises,” it said.
The U.S. and Iran are inactive negotiating presumption of the interim bid deal, including issues specified arsenic getting ships done the cardinal strait and addressing the aboriginal of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium. Under the interim deal, the 2 sides person 60 days to enactment retired the details.
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