The United States attacked Iran early Sunday morning over an Iranian strike on a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz that set the container ship ablaze and forced its crew to abandon it. Iran apparently responded with attacks targeting Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
Strait of Hormuz Dispute
The strait has become the key sticking point in any further negotiations between Iran and the United States to reach a permanent end to the war that began on Feb. 28. About a fifth of all traded oil and natural gas passed through the strait before the war began.
The U.S. military’s Central Command said it hit some 140 targets in the strikes, far more than the last two rounds, and went after missile and drone launch sites, ammunition dumps, communication equipment, and other sites.
Iran’s Response
Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s parliament and a main negotiator, responded to the US attacks. “The era of one-sided deals is OVER,” he wrote on X. “We told you: keep your word or pay the price. Reality is knocking.”
Iran’s new supreme leader, still unseen since the war began, also vowed in his first statement since the funeral of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that Iranians would avenge his killing in the war’s opening strikes on Feb. 28.
Original reporting: KTBS 3 (Shreveport) — read the source article.
