US bombs Iranian military sites and Tehran targets American troops in Kuwait

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States said Monday that it bombed radar and drone sites successful Iran aft Tehran changeable down an American drone implicit the weekend. Iran past said it targeted American soldiers successful Kuwait with missiles, which the U.S. says it changeable down.

The nominal ceasefire betwixt Iran and the U.S. has been repeatedly tested with specified back-and-forth attacks, adjacent arsenic officials from some countries effort to negociate an extremity to the war. It’s not wide however adjacent they are to a woody — and determination is ever the hazard that an onslaught could derail those talks.

In the meantime, Iran has maintained its chokehold connected the Strait of Hormuz, disrupting planetary vigor supplies and driving up the terms of substance astir the world, with far-reaching consequences.

Fighting has besides escalated betwixt Israel and the Lebanese militant radical Hezbollah, contempt their nominal ceasefire. Israel has extended its concern heavy into Lebanon, and Hezbollah — which joined the warfare successful enactment of its main backer, Iran — continues to motorboat drones into Israel.

US subject attacks Iran

The U.S. military’s Central Command said it carried retired the strikes successful Iran connected Saturday and Sunday astir the metropolis of Geruk and connected Qeshm Island.

“The measured and deliberate strikes occurred … successful effect to assertive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a U.S. MQ-1 drone that was operating implicit planetary waters,” Central Command said.

“U.S. combatant craft swiftly responded by eliminating Iranian aerial defenses, a crushed power station, and 2 one-way onslaught drones that posed wide threats to ships transiting determination waters.”

Kuwait reports incoming fire

Kuwait said its aerial defenses opened occurrence aboriginal Monday greeting to intercept incoming drone and rocket fire.

Around the aforesaid time, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said it responded to an American onslaught without saying where, apt referring to the onslaught connected Kuwait. In a connection carried by the state-run IRNA quality agency, the Guard said that U.S. forces had targeted a telecommunications tower.

Kuwait is location to U.S. Army Central, the Mideast guardant bid for the Army. While the U.S. Air Force nary longer flies the MQ-1 Predator, the U.S. Army inactive does.

Iranian authorities tv aboriginal shared footage of the ballistic rocket launch, including a close-up showing a sticker connected its assemblage depicting a bruised U.S. President Donald Trump overlaid connected a “closed” Strait of Hormuz with the caption: “Until the past American worker leaves the region.”

Central Command said U.S. forces changeable down 2 ballistic missiles Iran launched toward bases location to American troops. No Americans were hurt, it added.

Attacks rattle ceasefire talks

The attacks correspond the latest escalation betwixt the U.S. and Iran. Over the weekend, the U.S. fired a rocket into the motor country of a Gambia-flagged cargo vessel trying to interruption its blockade of Iranian ports.

A trickle of ships has made it retired of the strait, done which a 5th of each traded lipid and earthy state erstwhile passed, but unit continues connected planetary vigor supplies, arsenic good arsenic connected chemic fertilizer. That has led to fears of nutrient shortages. The Gulf portion produces 30% of globally traded chemic fertilizers.

Trump met with advisers connected Friday but has yet to determine connected whether to determination up with a woody to widen the ceasefire and reopen the strait. Iran has said the woody had not been finalized.

The U.S. and Israel launched the warfare with strikes connected Iran connected Feb. 28. Trump has offered shifting goals for the conflict, though preventing Iran from gathering a atomic limb is among them. Iran has insisted its atomic programme is peaceful, though it has capable highly enriched uranium to physique respective atomic weapons, should it take to bash so.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance suggested past week that negotiators are trying to onslaught wide presumption connected Iran’s atomic program, with the specifics to beryllium hammered retired successful the ensuing talks.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei connected Monday again accused the U.S. of “constantly” changing its positions.

“From the beginning, we knew — and we proceed to cognize — that we are negotiating successful an ambiance of mistrust,” Baghaei told journalists.

Trump expressed optimism astir the talks successful a station connected his Truth Social level aboriginal Monday successful Washington.

“Iran truly wants to marque a deal, and it volition beryllium a bully 1 for the U.S.A. and those that are with us,” helium wrote. “Just beryllium backmost and relax, it volition each enactment retired good successful the extremity — It ever does!”