{"id":719361,"date":"2026-06-06T17:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/719361\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:03:11","slug":"new-exchange-of-fire-between-u-s-and-iran-in-gulf-tests-fragile-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/719361\/","title":{"rendered":"New exchange of fire between U.S. and Iran in Gulf tests fragile ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iran fired ballistic missiles and drones toward Bahrain and Kuwait early Saturday, Bahrain’s government said, adding that they were intercepted. It called on Tehran to immediately cease attacks on Gulf neighbours that it deemed a “serious escalation.”<\/p>\n

Bahrain activated air raid sirens and told residents to move to the nearest safe location and follow official instructions.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said the U.S. early Saturday attacked surveillance facilities on Qeshm Island and near Sirik that it said were used to protect borders and “ensure the security of navigation in international waters.”<\/p>\n

Tehran called the attack a violation of the fragile ceasefire.<\/p>\n

The latest exchange of fire came as the Trump administration\u00a0pressed Iran\u00a0to\u00a0make a deal\u00a0to end the war that has strained the global economy and\u00a0threatened a hunger crisis\u00a0in some of the world’s most vulnerable countries. <\/p>\n

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U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at four Republican representatives who voted with House Democrats to halt military action against Iran. Trump has faced several recent setbacks, including plunging poll numbers and challenges to his anti-weaponization fund.Iran said it targeted the U.S. military<\/p>\n

The U.S. military earlier said it shot down several Iranian missiles and drones launched toward\u00a0the Strait of Hormuz\u00a0and Gulf Arab allies, and struck some of the Islamic republic’s coastal surveillance radar sites in response.<\/p>\n

“The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic,” U.S. Central Command said on social media. It confirmed it hit radar sites, including an island in the strait, “to defend against further attacks.”<\/p>\n

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it targeted the Ali Al Salem air base, which hosts U.S. forces in Kuwait, and the U.S. navy’s 5th Fleet in Bahrain, according to the state-run IRNA news agency. The U.S. military said there were no reports of harm to U.S. personnel.<\/p>\n

The U.S. military is enforcing a blockade on Iranian ports in response to Tehran’s chokehold on the crucial corridor for global oil and natural gas shipments, which has sent energy prices spiking.<\/p>\n

It has also posed political problems\u00a0for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Republican Party ahead of the midterm congressional elections in November.<\/p>\n

U.S. Central Command said it hit the radar sites, including an island in the strait, “to defend against further attacks.”<\/p>\n

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It was the latest in back-and-forth attacks that have strained the tenuous ceasefire in\u00a0the war\u00a0\u2014 which began when the U.S. and Israel struck Iran on Feb. 28 \u2014 and\u00a0harmed efforts to reach a deal\u00a0to extend that truce. Earlier this week, Iranian drones heavily\u00a0damaged a passenger terminal\u00a0at Kuwait’s main airport, killing one person, wounding dozens and briefly closing the airfield.<\/p>\n

Despite the attacks raising new concerns that the ceasefire could collapse, Trump told reporters on Friday that “the situation with Iran seems to be going quite well.”<\/p>\n

Trump increasingly\u00a0appears to be boxed in\u00a0on a conflict that has settled into a holding pattern. U.S. and Iranian negotiators\u00a0reached a tentative agreement\u00a0a week ago to extend\u00a0the ceasefire by 60 days and start a new round of talks\u00a0on Iran’s nuclear program. But Trump has called for unspecified changes, and Iranian officials have shown no public signs of signing off on the deal.<\/p>\n

Asked on Friday why it was taking so long, Trump told NBC’s Meet the Press that it was because “it’s a very hard thing for them.”<\/p>\n

“There are things they never thought they’d be doing that they’re going to have to do. They’ve got no choice, and it takes a little while,” he said in the interview.<\/p>\n

Trump said the Iranians still have 21 to 22 per cent of their missiles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-719361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}