The US military said Iran fired missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain that failed or were shot down, and that the US launched strikes on an Iranian facility in response. Iran faces economic challenges as its oil-backed economy remains under a US naval blockade.
Iran 's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said it had targeted the headquarters of the US Navy's 5th Fleet in Bahrain and another country in its attack, without naming Kuwait.
The US military said Iran fired missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain that failed or were shot down, and that the US launched strikes on an Iranian facility in response. Iran faces economic challenges as its oil-backed economy remains under a US naval blockade. Year-on-year inflation in Iran reached a level in May unseen since World War II, underlining the economic pain average Iranians are facing.
The US is eager to ease the Islamic Republic's grip on the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway for oil and other commodities. The conflicts between Iran and the US have increasingly become conjoined, as Iran insists that any potential truce in the war there must also quell the fighting in Lebanon. The US and Israel are also involved in a separate fight against the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The attacks happened after Iran stopped communicating with mediators about extending a ceasefire in the war with the US and Israel, according to reports Tuesday from two semiofficial Iranian news agencies. President Donald Trump disputed the claim and said talks were continuing. The reports by the Fars and Tasnim news agencies, both believed to be close to the Guard, came as tensions flared in Israel's separate-but-related fight against the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah in Lebanon.
A regional official involved in the mediation, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the talks, told The Associated Press that Iran had not communicated at all on Tuesday after saying that a ceasefire needed to be enforced in Lebanon for negotiations to continue. Trump called reports of a cessation in talks 'false and erroneous'.
'The conversations between us have been going on continuously, including four days ago, three days ago, two days ago, one day ago and today,' Trump said in a social media post. 'Where they lead, one never knows, but as I told Iran, 'It's time, one way or another, for you to make a Deal. ' US Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not address the reported cutoff in communications as he testified at a congressional hearing in Washington.
Instead, he sounded an optimistic note about the nuclear dimension of the negotiations, while cautioning that there's no guarantee of reaching 'a deal that's acceptable.
' Iran has been trying to increase pressure on Trump over negotiations on the Iran war ceasefire and loosening the Islamic Republic's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz and the oil, gas and other commodities that normally pass through it. Trump then could potentially push Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt or slow the advance of his forces, which have moved deeper into Lebanon than at any time in over a quarter of a century.
The US military said it 'downed multiple drones' launched by Iran targeting American forces in Kuwait. The attacks happened after Iran stopped communicating with mediators about extending a ceasefire in the war with the US and Israel, according to reports Tuesday from two semiofficial Iranian news agencies. President Donald Trump disputed the claim and said talks were continuing.
Iran's Central Bank said the consumer price index, which measures a basket of goods and services, reached 77.2 per cent in May compared with the year before. The rate is 8 percentage points higher than in April, when the inflation rate was 69.2 per cent. Experts note there could be new demonstrations if people find themselves priced out of feeding their families.
'I have no doubt that if Trump leaves (Iran without a formal peace deal) ... most probably, we will see something like January by the end of summer because of the economic and social situations,' analyst Mohsen Jalilvand said in a video published by Iran's Fararu news website
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