The US military has conducted strikes on Iranian targets after President Donald Trump accused Iran of a “foolish violation” of its truce following an attack on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. <\/p>\n
US Central Command said it had struck missile and drone storage facilities and coastal radar positions on Friday, in response to a drone attack on a cargo ship on Thursday which halted a planned evacuation of sailors stuck in the region. <\/p>\n
Tehran said the cargo ship was attacked because it was using an unauthorised route to transit through the Gulf waterway.<\/p>\n
After the US strikes, Iran in turn accused the US of violating their interim deal and said it had struck targets linked to American forces.<\/p>\n
US Central Command – or Centcom – described the American strikes as “a powerful response” to the drone attack a day earlier.<\/p>\n
“The unwarranted aggression against commercial shipping by Iranian forces clearly violated the ceasefire,” it said in a statement. <\/p>\n
“Furthermore, Iran’s dangerous behaviour undermined freedom of navigation as commerce increasingly flows through the vital international trade corridor.”<\/p>\n
Centcom said the US military would “continue to provide safe passage coordination and support to commercial vessels transiting the strait”.<\/p>\n
Iran’s foreign ministry released a statement on Saturday morning, saying the country had carried out strikes against targets linked to American forces in response, and blamed the “treaty-breaking US regime” for the situation. <\/p>\n
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said its navy had struck US military positions in the region, without providing further details. The BBC contacted the Pentagon for comment.<\/p>\n
Bahrain’s foreign ministry said the country had come under attack from “several Iranian drones” early on Saturday, condemning the action as a “flagrant violation” of its sovereignty and accusing Tehran of undermining peace efforts. <\/p>\n
Also on Saturday, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said a tanker was struck by an unidentified projectile in the Strait of Hormuz. <\/p>\n
The vessel sustained damage to its bridge, but all crew were safe and no environmental damage had been reported, UKMTO added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US military has conducted strikes on Iranian targets after President Donald Trump accused Iran of a “foolish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-662561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}