About an hour after Trump\u2019s post, the Kuwaiti army \u200csaid its air defences were responding to \u201chostile\u201d missile and drone attacks, while sirens sounded in Bahrain<\/a>, according to that country\u2019s interior ministry.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, JD Vance continued to reiterate the administration\u2019s triumphant line on the war with Iran hours before the latest round of strikes were exchanged.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we make the final deal, then great,\u201d the US vice-president told HBO\u2019s Bill Maher.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we don\u2019t make the final deal, their nuclear program is still destroyed. They\u2019re still much weaker as a country, so my attitude is America wins either way.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump also said on \u2060Saturday \u2060that \u200bhe \u200cwill \u200cnominate \u200cLance Schroyer as \u200cthe next director of US \u200bImmigration \u2060and \u200bCustoms \u200bEnforcement (ICE), succeeding David Venturella, who had been performing the duties of the director.<\/p>\n The president said in a Truth Social post that Schroyer \u201chas over 29 YEARS of Law Enforcement experience in Oklahoma \u2013 A State where I WON all 77 Counties in 2016, 2020, and 2024! Lance is a former Oklahoma State Trooper, and United States Marine\u201d.<\/p>\n Markwayne Mullin, the Department of Homeland Security secretary, said in a statement on X that Schroyer \u201cwill play a vital role in helping deliver on the President\u2019s mandate from the American people to target, arrest, and deport illegal aliens\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n Closing summary<\/p>\n We will soon be closing this liveblog, but you\u2019ll be able to stay up-to-date with our ongoing coverage of the Middle East here.<\/a><\/p>\n Here is a summary of today\u2019s events:<\/p>\n Iran launched drone and missile attacks Sunday targeting Bahrain<\/a> and Kuwait in response to US airstrikes that hit the Islamic Republic, and threatened a \u201ccomplete halt\u201d in negotiations to end the war if Washington continues its attacks.<\/p>\n US president Donald Trump accused Iran of violating the ceasefire agreement in a post of social media and said the US may be \u201cforced to militarily complete the job\u201d. Iran also accused the US of violating the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n JD Vance continued to reiterate the administration\u2019s triumphant line on the war with Iran hours before the latest round of strikes were exchanged. \u201cAmerica wins either way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi was in Baghdad for a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart. He called for a security framework to be established with the Gulf nations after it struck US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation to US strikes.<\/p>\n The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRCG has said on state-run SNN TV that it will respond with more force if there are any more blow-for-blow attacks from the US.<\/p>\n Countries including Jordan, the UAE and Italy all condemned Iran\u2019s attacks.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Italy\u2019s foreign minister Antonio Tajani has condemned Iran\u2019s attacks in Bahrain<\/a> and Kuwait, saying that if it escalates further it can risk intercepting diplomatic efforts.<\/p>\n \u201cI express my strongest condemnation for the new Iranian attacks that struck Bahrain and Kuwait<\/a> in recent hours, to which the Italian government extends its full solidarity,\u201d Tajani said on X.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is essential to avoid any escalation that could jeopardise the understandings painstakingly reached.\u201d<\/p>\n Antonio Tajani. Photograph: Cecilia Fabiano\/LaPresse\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n We have some more details on those Israeli strikes that were reported in Lebanon (see post at 10:28 BST<\/a>), only two days after a US-brokered agreement was signed between Israel, Lebanon and the US.<\/p>\n The deal was designed to work towards an end to fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Included in the deal is plans to disarm Hezbollah.<\/p>\n And yet, attacks continue. \u201cAn Israeli warplane carried out an airstrike on the outskirts of the Deir Seryan\u2013Taybeh area in southern Lebanon,\u201d Lebanon\u2019s official National news agency (NNA) said Sunday.<\/p>\n The Israeli military said on Sunday \u200bit killed Hezbollah militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and struck a rocket launcher in the Nabatieh area of southern Lebanon to remove threats to its soldiers, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n The Israeli military said it struck the structure from which the militants operated and dismantled a rocket launcher that posed a threat.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a009.40 EDT<\/p>\n Jordan and the United Arab Emirates have both spoken out about the recent Iranian attacks on Bahrain<\/a> and Kuwait.<\/p>\n The Jordanian foreign ministry said that the \u201cbrutal Iranian attacks\u201d on the Gulf nations were \u201ca threat to their security and stability, and the safety of their territories\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201c[The attacks are] a dangerous escalation, and a blatant breach of international law and the United Nations Charter,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n The ministry added that it expresses \u201cJordan\u2019s absolute solidarity with the sisterly Kingdom of Bahrain and the sisterly State of Kuwait\u201d.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the UAE\u2019s foreign ministry called the attacks \u201ca blatant violation of sovereignty\u201d of the Gulf states and a threat to \u201csecurity and stability\u201d.<\/p>\n Iran launched attacks on US sites in the Gulf in response to American strikes on the country, state media said on 27 June, after Washington accused Tehran of attacking one of its cargo ships in the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n Cargo ships in the strait of Hormuz. Photograph: AFP\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Hassan Fadlallah, a Hezbollah lawmaker, has warned about \u201cinternal conflict\u201d within Lebanon over the country\u2019s agreement with Israel, which the Iran-backed militant group rejects \u2013 and further stated that he does not believe that the deal will actually be implemented.<\/p>\n Lebanon and Israel signed a 14-point framework agreement in Washington on Friday designed to work towards an end to fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Included in the deal is plans to disarm Hezbollah.<\/p>\n Now, Fadlallah\u2019s comments come after Lebanese president Joseph Aoun told US president Donald Trump in a phone call that the Lebanese state \u201cwill assume its responsibilities\u201d in implementing the framework agreement.<\/p>\n Hezbollah\u2019s leader Naim Qassem had said on Saturday that the group would treat the deal as \u201cnull and void\u201d and described it as \u201ca surrender of sovereignty\u201d.<\/p>\n Lebanon\u2019s national human rights commission said in a statement that no agreement should prevent victims from seeking justice.<\/p>\n \u201cThe commission emphasises that prosecuting perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture does not constitute an act of hostility or a political stance, but rather a legitimate exercise of the rights to justice,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah in 2023. Photograph: Mohamed Azakir\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRCG has said on state-run SNN TV that it will respond with more force if there are any more blow-for-blow attacks from the US.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we predicted, the enemy is an enemy that breaks its commitments, is deceitful, and cannot be trusted. At any moment, at any stage of the negotiations, it may take certain actions,\u201d said spokesperson Hossein Mohebi \u2013 as reported in Al Jazeera<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mohebi said: \u201cWhatever action the enemy takes in this regard, we have responded to it, and we will respond to it. We repeat: If the enemy breaks its commitments and violates the ceasefire, we will respond more strongly than before, and we stress we will respond even more forcefully. We regard such moves by the enemy as natural because we know the enemy\u2019s nature.\u201d<\/p>\n This comes as Iran launched drone and missile attacks Sunday targeting Bahrain<\/a> and Kuwait in response to US airstrikes that hit the Islamic Republic, and threatened a \u201ccomplete halt\u201d in negotiations to end the war if Washington continues its attacks.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Iran\u2019s foreign minister has called for a security framework to be established with the Gulf nations after it struck US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain<\/a> in retaliation to US strikes.<\/p>\n \u201cWe should reach a new framework that includes all countries in the region and without the presence or interference of any country from outside the region,\u201d said Abbas Araghchi \u2013 at a news conference on a visit to Iraq\u2019s capital Baghdad.<\/p>\n He also said he would be bringing maritime traffic back to pre-war levels in Hormuz lies solely with Tehran, and warned that any challenge over the strait will \u201cincrease tensions\u201d.<\/p>\n He also touched on Lebanon, where the Israeli military said it killed Hezbollah militants in a strike in the Nabatieh area of southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n Araghchi reiterated his previous position that the memorandum of understanding signed with the US mandates that Israel withdraw from Lebanon and end its strikes there.<\/p>\n Abbas Araghchi. Photograph: Hadi Mizban\/APShare<\/a>Iran\u2019s foreign minister warns any challenge to Iranian oversight of Hormuz will \u2018increase tensions\u2019<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi is in Baghdad for a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart. The pair have been discussing the latest attacks as well as the all-important issue of Hormuz, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n Gulf states have publicly said that the strait of Hormuz must remain toll-free. For his part, Araghchi\u2019s Iraqi counterpart said that he stressed the importance of opening the passage in their joint meetings and that Iran should lift the naval blockade.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s foreign minister said that bringing maritime traffic back to pre-war levels in Hormuz lies solely with Tehran, and warned that any challenge over the strait will \u201cincrease tensions\u201d.<\/p>\n He also touched on Lebanon, where Israeli military said it killed Hezbollah militants in a strike in the Nabatieh area of southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n Araghchi reiterated his previous position that the memorandum of understanding signed with the US mandates that Israel withdraw from Lebanon and end its strikes there.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Trump says US may be ‘forced’ to ‘complete the job’<\/p>\n US president Donald Trump claimed that the US has the upper hand after it launched further strikes on multiple targets in Iran, a day after it struck Iran in retaliation for a drone attack on a cargo ship in the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n \u201cThere may come \u200ca point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and \u200cwill be forced to militarily \u200bcomplete the job that we very successfully started,\u201d Trump posted to Truth Social in the wake of Saturday\u2019s strikes.<\/p>\n \u201cIf \u200bthat happens,\u201d he wrote, \u201c\u200bthe Islamic \u200bRepublic \u200cof Iran<\/a> \u200bwill \u200bno longer exist.\u201d<\/p>\n About an hour after Trump\u2019s post, the Kuwaiti army \u200csaid its air defences were responding to \u201chostile\u201d missile and drone attacks, while sirens sounded in Bahrain<\/a>, according to that country\u2019s interior ministry.<\/p>\n US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Photograph: ABACA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n Elsewhere, JD Vance continued to reiterate the administration\u2019s triumphant line on the war with Iran hours before the latest round of strikes were exchanged.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we make the final deal, then great,\u201d the US vice-president told HBO\u2019s Bill Maher.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we don\u2019t make the final deal, their nuclear program is still destroyed. They\u2019re still much weaker as a country, so my attitude is America wins either way.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump also said on \u2060Saturday \u2060that \u200bhe \u200cwill \u200cnominate \u200cLance Schroyer as \u200cthe next director of US \u200bImmigration \u2060and \u200bCustoms \u200bEnforcement (ICE), succeeding David Venturella, who had been performing the duties of the director.<\/p>\n The president said in a Truth Social post that Schroyer \u201chas over 29 YEARS of Law Enforcement experience in Oklahoma \u2013 A State where I WON all 77 Counties in 2016, 2020, and 2024! Lance is a former Oklahoma State Trooper, and United States Marine\u201d.<\/p>\n Markwayne Mullin, the Department of Homeland Security secretary, said in a statement on X that Schroyer \u201cwill play a vital role in helping deliver on the President\u2019s mandate from the American people to target, arrest, and deport illegal aliens\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Opening summary<\/p>\n Welcome to our live coverage of the crisis in the Middle East.<\/p>\n Earlier this morning, Iran has said it launched a joint missile and drone \u2060operation targeting \u200beight US military \u200csites in \u200cKuwait and Bahrain. This comes after the US launched further strikes on multiple targets in Iran, a day after it struck Iran in retaliation for a drone attack on a cargo ship in the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n According to US Central Command (Centcom), these strikes were in \u201cdirect response to continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping\u201d and that it had targeted Iran\u2019s \u201cmilitary surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and minelayer capabilities\u201d in response.<\/p>\n Both countries have accused each other of violating their truce, training negotiations meant to end the Middle East war.<\/p>\n Both Bahrain and Kuwait<\/a> denounced the Iranian attacks. The Kuwaiti military said air defenses intercepted incoming Iranian drones and missiles Sunday morning, just after the US strikes. Kuwait, which hosts a major US army base, said it had detected and intercepted two ballistic missiles and there were no reports of injuries or damage.<\/p>\n Bahrain said the Iranian strikes damaged a residential building near the international airport and no one was killed. The ministry released photos of an 8-story building, with the top floor completely destroyed, filled with rubble and its windows blown out.<\/p>\n Iran said on Sunday it was determined to defend its sovereignty after the latest US strikes on the country.<\/p>\n \u201cIran strongly condemns the airstrikes by the terrorist US army on several monitoring and surveillance facilities on the southern coast of the country in the early hours of Sunday,\u201d the Iranian foreign ministry said in a statement, adding that it \u201cstresses its determination to defend Iran\u2019s national sovereignty\u201d against US attacks.<\/p>\n![\"US](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782667640_852_3333.jpg\")
US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Photograph: ABACA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n