US, Iran strikes intensify after Trump labels interim deal ‘over’

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The U.S. and Iranian militaries continued to exchange strikes overnight Thursday, in violation of the 60-day ceasefire the two nations agreed to last month.

U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said late Wednesday that it struck approximately 90 Iranian military targets, including air defense systems, missile and drone storage sites and naval capabilities.

Those strikes came after Centcom forces hit roughly 80 targets in the Islamic Republic on Tuesday, in response to Iranian forces striking three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.

The militaries of Kuwait and Bahrain, meanwhile, said Thursday that Iran also launched strikes into their countries’ airspace. A spokesperson for the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense said the armed forces intercepted 10 hostile drones, three ballistic missiles and one cruise missile at dawn Thursday.

“This resulted in material damage due to the fall of debris in several locations across the country, in addition to one human injury, where the injured person is receiving the necessary medical care, and their condition is stable,” Major Gen. Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi added.

The General Command of the Bahraini Defense Forces also said the military’s air defense systems “confronted, intercepted, and destroyed several treacherous Iranian aerial attacks” Thursday morning.

After the U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes on Tuesday and early Wednesday, President Trump said the memorandum of understanding with Iran he signed in mid-June was over. The move caused oil prices to surge once again.

“To me, I think it’s over. I don’t want to deal with them anymore. They’re scum,” the president told reporters at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.

Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One early Thursday, Trump indicated the U.S. strikes will continue, saying “every time they hit us, we’ll hit them 20.”

As for whether the country is returning to a full-scale conflict with Tehran, the president was unsure.

“I don’t know. We’d win it very quickly,” Trump added.

Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian Parliament and a key negotiator with the U.S., said late Wednesday that Washington “still hasn’t learned that bullying and breaking promises” with Iran come at a cost.

“Let me put it plainly: if you strike, you’ll get hit,” he wrote on social platform X. “Don’t flail around pointlessly, or you’ll sink even deeper: the Strait of Hormuz will only open with ‘Iranian arrangements,’ not American threats.”

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