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The United States has launched strikes on targets in southern Iran, the US military has said, as Tehran\u2019s top negotiators gather in Qatar for talks aimed at reaching a peace deal with Washington.<\/p>\n
US Central Command (CENTCOM) said it carried out the \u201cself-defence strikes\u201d to protect US troops from threats posed by Iranian forces.<\/p>\n
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\u201cTargets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines,\u201d Navy Captain Tim Hawkins, a CENTCOM spokesperson, said in a statement to Al Jazeera late on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cUS Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\n
CENTCOM did not provide further details on the strikes.<\/p>\n
The latest attacks come despite there being a ceasefire officially in place between the US and Iran since April 8.<\/p>\n
Reporting from Washington, DC, Al Jazeera\u2019s Alan Fisher said the strikes are likely to derail the ongoing negotiations to end the US-Israel war on Iran.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is very limited information coming from the US side; we don\u2019t know the extent of the operation. It\u2019s hard to say whether this skirmish is unusual,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut Trump is keen to move forward with negotiations and solidify a peace deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier on Monday, a high-level Iranian delegation arrived in Doha to discuss roadblocks to a permanent peace deal.<\/p>\n
The arrival of the delegation, which includes Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi and Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, came as US President Donald Trump said that peace talks were \u201cproceeding nicely\u201d, even as he insisted that he would not agree to anything less than a substantial deal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will only be a Great Deal for all or, no Deal at all \u2014 Back to the Battlefront and shooting, but bigger and stronger than ever before \u2014 And nobody wants that!\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n
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