The United States launched new air strikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by targeting Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar in crossfire that again threatened an interim deal intended to help end the war in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n
The strikes came hours after US President Donald Trump said recent Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz signalled the end of the fragile ceasefire. The US struck a variety of military sites and port facilities early Wednesday following Iran\u2019s targeting of several merchant vessels off the coast of Oman, sparking Iranian fire then as well.<\/p>\n
But Thursday\u2019s attacks appeared bigger all around, with sirens sounding at least twice in Bahrain, home to the US Navy\u2019s 5th Fleet headquarters. There was no immediate word of damage in the three Gulf Arab countries. Kuwait\u2019s military said it was actively intercepting incoming drones and missiles. Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard claimed attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait.<\/p>\n
The US military\u2019s Central Command (CENTCOM) said it hit some 90 targets across Iran, releasing black-and-white footage of what appeared to be strikes on an airport runway and missile launchers.<\/p>\n
The US said the strikes were intended to \u201cfurther degrade\u201d Iran\u2019s ability \u201cto threaten freedom of navigation\u201d in the strait, through which a fifth of the world\u2019s traded oil and natural gas passed before the war began with US and Israeli attacks on February 28.<\/p>\n
Iranian state media reported explosions in several locations, including Bushehr, home to Iran\u2019s nuclear power plant complex, and the southern port cities of Chabahar, Konarak, Bandar Abbas and Sirik. In Iranshahr, authorities said a strike had killed a firefighter at an airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States launched new air strikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by targeting Bahrain, Kuwait…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[6740,180119,23,286747,26741,286340,208608,12,801,285072,129,5855,3,16236,15275,210369,153670,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-751934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-abbas-araghchi","tag-ali-khamenei","tag-america","tag-ankara","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-bandar-abbas","tag-chabahar","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-mashhad","tag-middle-east","tag-nato","tag-news","tag-pakistan","tag-qatar","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","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\/751934","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=751934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}