The ‘Al-Riqqa’ oil tanker (L) and ‘Al-Yarmouk’ oil tankers sail within the Arabian Gulf waters, off the coast of Kuwait Metropolis on June 27, 2026. (Picture by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP through Getty Photographs) /
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President Donald Trump once more threatened Iran on Sunday with annihilation following U.S. assaults on Iranian navy targets in retaliation for Tehran’s newest strikes on transport within the strategically very important Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s neighbors, Kuwait and Bahrain, reported incoming missiles and drones in a single day.
“United States plane simply struck Iranian missile and drone storage areas, and coastal radar websites, for violating the Stop Fireplace Settlement, AGAIN!,” Trump wrote on Reality Social.
The U.S. navy attacked a variety of Iranian targets after a industrial tanker within the Strait of Hormuz was reported to have been struck by a projectile on Saturday.
The assaults had been the most recent escalation of tensions between the 2 nations in current days, following an interim settlement meant to carry an finish to hostilities within the area.
U.S. Central Command stated early Sunday that fighter jets struck 10 Iranian navy targets in and close to the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for a drone strike on the Panamanian-flagged tanker, the M/T Kiku. The ship was transiting the strait with greater than two million barrels of crude oil, CentCom stated late Saturday.
“There could come some extent once we are now not capable of be cheap, and will probably be pressured to militarily full the job that we very efficiently began. If that occurs, the Islamic Republic of Iran will now not exist!” Trump wrote.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to ship Iran again to the “stone age.”
In an April Reality Social submit, Trump threatened “an entire civilization will die tonight” and raised the specter of nuclear conflict. “For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, they usually higher get transferring, FAST, or there will not be something left of them,” Trump stated in a submit in Might.
Kuwait and Bahrain below assault
Iran stated it struck U.S. navy targets in Kuwait and Bahrain early Sunday following U.S. strikes on its coastal amenities.
Kuwait’s military stated its air defenses had been “confronting hostile missile and drone assaults.”
Bahrain’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs condemned “the renewed Iranian aggression in opposition to its territory, concentrating on it once more with a variety of ballistic missiles and drones, in a harmful escalation.”
“What Tehran is doing shouldn’t be a passing act, nor an remoted incident, however reasonably a deliberate method and a scientific sample of repeated aggression,” Bahrain’s assertion added.
The United Arab Emirates and Qatar — which have each been repeatedly struck by Iranian projectiles — condemned Iran’s assaults on Bahrain and Kuwait, describing them as violations of these nations’ sovereignty and worldwide regulation. Saudi Arabia additionally denounced Iran’s assaults, “in addition to in opposition to the safety and freedom of navigation within the Strait of Hormuz.”
Regardless of the barrage of assaults, Central Command stated industrial vessel transits by means of the vital waterway proceed.
Oil costs prolonged declines on Friday as extra tankers exited the Strait of Hormuz, easing provide issues.
Worldwide benchmark Brent crude futures for August settled down 4.34% at $71.99 a barrel, whereas U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures for August declined 3.74% to finish at $69.23 a barrel. The final time WTI futures closed under $70 was on Feb. 27 — the day earlier than the beginning of the Iran conflict.
CentCom stated the U.S. assaults focused Iranian “navy surveillance infrastructure, communication methods, air protection websites, drone storage amenities, and minelayer capabilities.”
Escalation amid negotiation
The contemporary assaults come because the U.S. and Iran are alleged to be partaking in a 60-day ceasefire as they maintain talks to finish their conflict. However each have accused the opposite of violating their finish of the settlement.
The U.S. navy struck Iran on Friday after Trump accused the Islamic Republic of “silly violation” of a ceasefire settlement by launching drone assaults at ships within the strait.
Iran on Thursday struck the Singapore-flagged cargo ship Ever Beautiful within the strait off the coast of Oman, Central Command stated in a submit on X. The vessel continued on its method by means of the strait, a serious thoroughfare for oil shipments.
The renewed assaults come greater than per week after Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a memorandum of understanding geared toward growing a everlasting peace deal to finish the conflict between their two nations.
— CNBC’s Sarah Min, Terri Cullen and Dan Mangan contributed to this report
