On this image obtained from Iran’s ISNA information company on June 18, 2026, vessels are seen anchored in Bandar Abbas alongside the Strait of Hormuz.
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The U.S. army attacked plenty of Iranian targets after a business tanker within the Strait of Hormuz was reported to have been struck by a projectile on Saturday.
The assaults had been the newest escalation of tensions between the 2 international locations in current days, following an interim settlement meant to carry an finish to hostilities within the area.
The U.S. army launched strikes on Iranian targets within the area, together with “army surveillance infrastructure, communication techniques, air protection websites, drone storage amenities, and minelayer capabilities,” in line with an on-line assertion late Saturday from the U.S. Central Command.
The strikes had been in retaliation for an Iranian assault earlier within the day on a business tanker, Central Command mentioned.
“Iran was given an opportunity to honor the ceasefire settlement however elected to not when its forces launched a one-way assault drone that hit M/T Kiku this morning at 4:30 a.m. ET,” the assertion mentioned. “The Panama-flagged tanker was transiting close to the Strait of Hormuz with greater than two-million barrels of crude oil.”
Bahrain additionally on Saturday condemned an Iranian drone strike as a “blatant violation” of its sovereignty.
Regardless of the barrage of assaults, Central Command mentioned business vessel transits by the important waterway proceed.
The contemporary 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 conflict. However each have accused the opposite of violating their finish of the settlement.
The U.S. army struck Iran on Friday after President Donald Trump accused the Islamic Republic of “silly violation” of a ceasefire settlement by launching drone assaults at ships within the strait. Central Command mentioned its plane “struck Iranian missile and drone storage places and coastal radar websites.”
That comes after a drone assault by Iran on Thursday struck the Singapore-flagged cargo ship Ever Beautiful within the strait off the coast of Oman, Central Command mentioned in a put up on X. The vessel continued on its method 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 conflict between their two nations.
After the U.S. strikes, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard mentioned in a press release: “Following the violation of the ceasefire by the Zionist regime in southern Lebanon, a number of hours in the past, the treaty-breaking US regime, as at all times, violated its commitments and, below varied pretexts, attacked the coasts of the Islamic Republic of Iran with an airstrike because of the passage of a violating ship by an unauthorized route within the Strait of Hormuz.”
“The IRGC Navy responded to this aggression by hanging the positions of the US terrorist military within the area,” the IRGC mentioned.
Ebrahim Azizi, the pinnacle of the nationwide safety fee of the Iranian parliament, in a put up on X mentioned, “The U.S. attacked Iran in the course of negotiations as soon as once more.”
“The failed U.S. President has proven he has no dedication to the rules of negotiation or a ceasefire,” Azizi mentioned.
“This reckless violation of the ceasefire will, as at all times, result in retreat and remorse on their half. The blame sport doesn’t work anymore.”
— CNBC’s Terri Cullen and Dan Mangan contributed to this report
