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. (Photograph by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP by way of 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 Hearth Settlement, AGAIN!,” Trump wrote on Reality Social.
The U.S. navy attacked a lot 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 have been the newest escalation of tensions between the 2 international locations in latest days, following an interim settlement meant to convey an finish to hostilities within the area.
U.S. Central Command mentioned 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 mentioned late Saturday.
“There might come some extent after we are now not capable of be affordable, and can be compelled 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 “a complete civilization will die tonight” and raised the specter of nuclear battle. “For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and so they higher get transferring, FAST, or there will not be something left of them,” Trump mentioned in a submit in Might.
Kuwait and Bahrain underneath assault
Iran mentioned it struck U.S. navy targets in Kuwait and Bahrain early Sunday following U.S. strikes on its coastal services.
Kuwait’s military mentioned its air defenses have been “confronting hostile missile and drone assaults”.
Bahrain’s Ministry of International Affairs condemned “the renewed Iranian aggression in opposition to its territory, focusing on it once more with a lot of ballistic missiles and drones, in a harmful escalation”.
“What Tehran is doing shouldn’t be a passing act, nor an remoted incident, however quite a deliberate strategy and a scientific sample of repeated aggression,” Bahrain’s assertion added.
Regardless of the barrage of assaults, Central Command mentioned industrial vessel transits by the crucial 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 beneath $70 was on Feb. 27 — the day earlier than the beginning of the Iran battle.
CentCom mentioned the U.S. assaults focused Iranian “navy surveillance infrastructure, communication methods, air protection websites, drone storage services, and minelayer capabilities”.
Escalation amid negotiation
The recent assaults come because the U.S. and Iran are presupposed to be partaking in a 60-day ceasefire as they maintain talks to finish their battle. 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 mentioned in a submit on X. The vessel continued on its means by the strait, a significant thoroughfare for oil shipments.
The renewed assaults come greater than every week after Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a memorandum of understanding aimed toward creating a everlasting peace deal to finish the battle between their two nations.
— CNBC’s Sarah Min, Terri Cullen and Dan Mangan contributed to this report
