Iranians experience previous a banner depicting Iran’s late supreme chief Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R), his successor, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L), in Enghelab Sq. in Tehran on June 3, 2026. The army adviser to Iran’s supreme chief on June 3, warned of extra missile and drone strikes ought to the US renew its assaults on Iran. The warning adopted US strikes on an Iranian tanker and on Iran’s Qeshm island, sparking retaliatory assaults on Kuwait and Bahrain.
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U.S. forces struck Iranian coastal radar websites on Saturday after capturing down drones launched by Iran towards the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. army mentioned, within the newest escalation complicating efforts to finish the warfare between the 2 nations.
The U.S. army believes the 4 Iranian drones had been focusing on regional maritime visitors, a U.S. official advised Reuters. U.S. Central Command mentioned in a publish on X that the U.S. then struck Iran’s surveillance websites in Goruk and Qeshm Island, that are each on the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s international ministry mentioned the U.S. motion broke an April 8 ceasefire, including that repeated such violations confirmed Washington had no intention of decreasing tensions. It warned that the US would bear accountability for the implications of its “unlawful actions” and any additional escalation.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps mentioned it had attacked U.S. bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation for U.S. strikes and fired at 4 tankers making an attempt to cross the strait with out its permission.
Kuwait’s military mentioned on Saturday it engaged seven ballistic missiles that entered the nation’s airspace early within the morning and handed over a number of residential areas, ensuing within the fall of some particles. The military added that the Iranian assault precipitated materials injury however no casualties. In Bahrain, sirens sounded and residents had been urged to hunt shelter.
Pakistani minister reported en path to Tehran
Kuwait and Bahrain condemned the strikes. Kuwait’s international ministry described the Iranian assaults, together with the most recent one on Saturday, as “blatant” aggression that threatened residents, residents, and regional safety, a ministry assertion mentioned.
Iran later mentioned it had hit U.S. bases in each nations with ballistic missiles, however the U.S. army mentioned six missiles had been intercepted and a seventh didn’t attain its goal.
The U.S. and Iran have been engaged in largely oblique negotiations to safe an interim deal to halt the three-month-old warfare that would depart points together with Iran’s nuclear program to additional negotiations.
However amid periodic skirmishes, a deal has remained elusive.
Tehran desires entry to billions of {dollars} in oil income, waivers on sanctions on crude exports, the lifting of a U.S. blockade on its ports and leverage over the strait. Iran has successfully blocked the waterway, the place a few fifth of the world’s oil transited earlier than the warfare.
Iranian state media reported that Mohsin Naqvi, Pakistan’s inside minister, who has been mediating an finish to the battle, was on his option to Tehran on Saturday.
A Pakistani supply mentioned Naqvi would carry a message from Pakistan to the Iranian Supreme Chief Mojtaba Khamenei.
“They’ve some missiles, they’ve some drones. I might say percentage-wise, possibly 21% to 22% of their missiles. It is lots of missiles, however it’s not what it was once we first attacked,” Trump advised NBC Information’ “Meet the Press” program, in accordance with excerpts launched by the community on Friday.
When requested why Iran’s leaders weren’t extra inclined to strike a deal, if they’re as determined as he has portrayed them, Trump mentioned:
“As a result of they’re sturdy. They’re proud. There are issues they by no means thought they’d be doing that they are going to must do, they have no selection, and it takes a short time.”
After the U.S. and Israel launched the warfare towards Iran on February 28, Tehran attacked Gulf states internet hosting U.S. bases and largely stopped transport by means of the Strait of Hormuz.
The battle has pushed up oil costs and disrupted provide chains for different merchandise. The U.N. World Meals Program mentioned on Friday that it was pushing hundreds of thousands of individuals nearer to starvation as a result of rising gasoline and transport prices.
Mohsen Rezaei, an adviser to Iran’s supreme chief, advised CNN on Friday {that a} peace deal hinged on the Trump administration unfreezing $24 billion in Iranian property, and warned that the U.S. would “enter right into a darkish hall” if it resumed assaults.
Preventing flares throughout area regardless of ceasefires
In a parallel battle in Lebanon, two Lebanese military officers and a soldier had been killed in an Israeli strike on a army automobile in south Lebanon, the Lebanese military mentioned, whereas the Israeli army mentioned it was investigating the incident.
Smoke billows from southern Lebanon following an Israeli strike, as seen from Nabatieh, Lebanon, on June 6, 2026.
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The Israeli army mentioned it struck the automobile after figuring out what it described as a menace to its forces and receiving indications that Hezbollah was getting ready to fireplace on Israeli troops from the world. Iran-aligned Hezbollah known as the incident a part of Israel’s continued aggression towards Lebanon.
Iran has made a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah a situation for any peace cope with Washington.
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem this week rejected a U.S.-brokered pact between Israel and the Lebanese authorities to halt the preventing in Lebanon. The deal didn’t present for an Israeli withdrawal and Hezbollah had not been occasion to the negotiations.
Israel has mentioned its forces wouldn’t withdraw or halt operations within the nation amid growing friction with the U.S.
