Iran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait following US strikes and threatens to halt talks to end the war

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran launched drone and rocket attacks Sunday targeting Bahrain and Kuwait successful effect to U.S. airstrikes that deed the Islamic Republic, and threatened a “complete halt” successful negotiations to extremity the warfare if Washington continues its attacks.

Efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz without Iran's nonstop oversight sparked the crossfire present gripping the portion and person imperiled negotiations for a lasting ceasefire. A multinational maritime assemblage overseen by the U.S. Navy said Saturday that it would grow a way adjacent Oman for some inbound and outbound traffic, mounting up a caller flashpoint with Tehran.

The planetary assemblage has agelong considered the strait an planetary passageway, contempt its sitting successful Iran and Oman's territorial waters. In caller days, Iran has doubly attacked vessels going done a way connected the Omani broadside of the strait backed by a United Nations agency.

Iran insists that it unsocial indispensable govern the strait, the constrictive rima of the Persian Gulf that erstwhile carried a 5th of the world’s lipid and earthy gas. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reiterated the assertion during a authorities sojourn to Iraq connected Sunday.

“Any interference successful this matter, immoderate effort to found caller oregon abstracted arrangements from those presently being carried retired by the Islamic Republic of Iran, volition lone pb to further complications, hold the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and summation the level of tension, conscionable arsenic implicit the past 2 nights we witnessed incidents successful the Strait of Hormuz that led to an summation successful hostility and confrontation,” helium said successful Baghdad.

The United States and Iran are inactive debating the presumption of an interim bid deal, including shipping arrangements done the strait, removing a U.S. blockade and sanctions and addressing the aboriginal of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium. Under the memorandum of knowing signed earlier this month, the U.S. and Iran person 60 days to robust retired the details.

The strikes endanger to torpedo the woody earlier it tin beryllium finalized. Continued warring successful Lebanon, wherever an Israeli worker was killed by Hezbollah occurrence aboriginal Sunday, has besides threatened the agreement.

Strikes people Gulf states hosting US military

The Kuwaiti subject said aerial defenses intercepted incoming Iranian drones and missiles Sunday morning, conscionable aft the U.S. strikes.

Kuwait, which hosts a large U.S. Army base, said it had detected and intercepted 2 ballistic missiles and determination were nary reports of injuries oregon damage.

Bahrain's Interior Ministry said the Iranian strikes damaged a residential gathering adjacent the planetary airdrome and nary 1 was killed. The ministry released photos of an 8-story building, with the apical level destroyed, filled with rubble and its windows blown out.

Bahrain is location to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, whose basal determination came nether repeated onslaught during the war. The damaged gathering connected Sunday was not adjacent the fleet's headquarters, successful downtown Manama.

Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry denounced what it called “a unsafe escalation that reveals that what Tehran is doing is not a passing act, nor an isolated incident, but alternatively a deliberate attack and a systematic signifier of repeated aggression."

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard claimed work for some attacks.

Trump accuses Iran of violating ceasefire with vessel attack

The latest U.S. strikes came aft the U.S. and Iran traded attacks earlier successful the weekend.

The U.S. military’s Central Command said it struck Iranian subject “surveillance infrastructure, connection systems, aerial defence sites, drone retention facilities and minelayer capabilities” connected Sunday, pursuing an onslaught connected a vessel astatine oversea aboriginal Saturday morning. That ship, the Panamanian-flagged tanker Kiku, carried crude lipid for the state-run vigor institution of Qatar, a cardinal mediator betwixt Iran and the U.S.

In a societal media post, Trump said the U.S. had “struck Iranian rocket and drone retention locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN!” He warned of a constituent wherever the U.S. whitethorn nary longer beryllium capable to beryllium tenable “and volition beryllium forced to militarily implicit the job.”

“If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran volition nary longer exist!” Trump wrote connected Truth Social.

The incidental follows a akin back-and-forth that occurred conscionable days prior, erstwhile an Iranian drone struck a merchant vas disconnected the seashore of Oman connected Thursday, and the U.S. subject retaliated with strikes.

Conflict continues successful Lebanon

Iran has consistently said the ceasefire indispensable see a halt to warring successful Lebanon, wherever Israel has been battling the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group. Days aft the U.S. and Israel launched the warfare against Iran successful February, Hezbollah began firing astatine Israel successful solidarity with its Iranian allies. Israel responded with an penetration that has occupied ample swaths of confederate Lebanon and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Israel has said it volition not retreat its troops until Hezbollah is disarmed.

Last week, Israel and the Lebanese authorities signed a model statement to extremity the conflict. But their woody did not see Hezbollah oregon Iran. Hezbollah has criticized the woody and rejected calls to disarm.

On Sunday, Araghchi again said during a sojourn to Iraq that the U.S. indispensable unit Israel to halt attacks and withdraw. Israel occupies astir 600 quadrate kilometers (231 quadrate miles) successful confederate Lebanon, which it says it needs arsenic a information buffer to halt attacks from Hezbollah.

But sporadic clashes person continued betwixt Israel and Hezbollah.

The person of the Iran-backed radical said Saturday that Hezbollah would proceed warring until Israel withdraws from Lebanon, adding that the radical considers the Israeli-Lebanese statement signed connected Friday to beryllium “nonexistent.”

The frequence of Israeli strikes successful Lebanon has decreased importantly since the Iran-U.S. woody was signed successful mid-June, but strikes person continued, sidesplitting astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic Saturday, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. Two abstracted Israeli strikes deed confederate Lebanon connected Sunday greeting — 1 successful the municipality of Taybeh and different successful the Nabatiyeh area, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency. There was nary contiguous connection connected casualties.

Overnight, Hezbollah militants killed an Israeli worker successful the colony of Deir Siryan successful confederate Lebanon, according to the Israeli military. Hezbollah did not remark connected the incident.

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Lidman reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. Associated Press writer Sally Abou AlJoud successful Beirut contributed to this report.

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