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American forces over the weekend conducted \u201cself-defense strikes\u201d on Iranian radar and command and control sites for drones in Goruk and the island of Qeshm, U.S. Central Command said on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe measured and deliberate strikes occurred on Saturday and Sunday in response to aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a U.S. MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters,\u201d according to the CENTCOM statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cU.S. fighter aircraft swiftly responded by eliminating Iranian air defenses, a ground control station, and two one-way attack drones that posed clear threats to ships transiting regional waters,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the U.S. military redirected 118 commercial vessels and disabled five as part of the naval blockade of Iranian ports, CENTCOM said in a separate statement on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
The figure was up from 116 vessels redirected on Saturday, according to CENTCOM, as American forces continued enforcement operations under the blockade that began on April 13.<\/p>\n
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Saturday said that the naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz was \u201cvery much still in place,\u201d as U.S. President Donald Trump was holding meeting at the White House for discussions on an agreement with the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny deal that the president is willing to make, he\u2019s only going to make it if he believes it\u2019s a great deal for our country and the security of the world,\u201d said Hegseth.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly one president was willing to lay it out on the line and ensure after 47 years that Iran is not capable of having a nuclear weapon,\u201d he continued. \u201cThose goalposts haven\u2019t shifted at all, which is the expectation of the American people and what we\u2019ve stated to Iran,\u201d he added. \u201cSo, in the middle of negotiations, the closer they come to that reality\u2014both now and into the future\u2014the closer we\u2019re going to get to that kind of a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"( Jun. 1, 2026 \/ JNS ) American forces over the weekend conducted \u201cself-defense strikes\u201d on Iranian radar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-677518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}