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US President Donald Trump has condemned what he called Iran\u2019s \u201cfoolish violation\u201d of the ceasefire agreement after a drone struck a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
Hours after Trump\u2019s comments in a Truth Social post on Friday, the United States military said it struck targets in Iran in response to the same drone attack that took place off Oman on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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The Singapore-flagged Ever Lovely,<\/a>\u00a0owned by Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine, was hit by a projectile, the British military said on Thursday. It had been stranded in the Gulf for more than 100 days after loading cargo in Iraq.<\/p>\n No crew members were injured, and the ship was able to continue its voyage.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the Drones solidly hit the upper deck of a large and very expensive Cargo Carrying Ship. Damage was done, but the Ship was able to proceed on its way,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n US forces intercepted three other drones launched in the same coordinated attack, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, this is a foolish violation of our Ceasefire Agreement,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Hours later, US Central Command said it had conducted strikes against Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites in response to the attack on the Ever Lovely, calling Iran\u2019s actions \u201cunwarranted aggression\u201d that \u201cclearly violated the ceasefire\u201d and \u201cundermined freedom of navigation through the strait\u201d.<\/p>\n Iran has not claimed responsibility for the attack, but two US officials told the Reuters news agency on condition of anonymity on Thursday that Iran fired on the ship.<\/p>\n It comes at a fragile time, as the US and Iran are negotiating an interim peace deal.<\/p>\n They are in the midst of a 60-day memorandum of understanding<\/a> (MoU) recently signed between Washington and Tehran, with both sides agreeing to lift naval blockades and open the Strait of Hormuz to free passage while negotiators work towards a longer-term deal on Iran\u2019s nuclear programme and sanctions relief.<\/p>\n The Ever Lovely had chosen a southern route along the Omani coast rather than corridors designated by Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which, hours before the attack, had issued a directive demanding all commercial vessels coordinate directly with the Iranian navy.<\/p>\n The attack immediately halted International Maritime Organization (IMO)<\/a> efforts to escort hundreds of stranded vessels out of the Gulf, where more than 11,000 seafarers have been trapped for months.<\/p>\n