US-Iran war highlights: Both parties to ‘halt strikes' and meet Tuesday in Qatar over Hormuz reopening

Iran-US war LIVE: Bahrain’s foreign ministry said a number of Iranian drones targeted the country early on Saturday morning, state-run BNA reported. It’s home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet and Tehran has repeatedly targeted it and other Gulf states that host American military bases and thousands of troops since the US and Israel launched the war in late February.

A UK naval group on Saturday said a tanker was struck by an unidentified projectile in Hormuz, though vessel-tracking data show that multiple ships continued to transit the waterway using routes near the coasts of Iran and Oman on Saturday morning.

Iran-US war LIVE: US President Donald Trump said Saturday that Iran would "no longer exist" if the United States is "forced" to resume the war, as he accused Tehran of violating a ceasefire.

The threat came after US forces said they struck "multiple" Iranian targets Saturday in another tit-for-tat response to attacks on shipping in the vital Strait of Hormuz.

"United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

"There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!" Trump wrote.

Iran-US war LIVE: US Central Command said Saturday's strikes were in response to an Iranian drone attack on the Panama-flagged oil tanker "Kiku," which was carrying some two million barrels of crude.

The US military said the latest response targeted "surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and minelayer capabilities."

Iranian media reported several explosions in the Sirik and Qeshm areas of southern Iran.

On Friday, the United States also conducted strikes that it said were in response to another Iranian attack on a ship, the "Ever Lovely."

Iran said Saturday it had hit US targets in the Gulf in its own retaliation. Bahrain said it was targeted by several Iranian drones early on Saturday and accused Tehran of "sabotaging peace efforts."

US-Iran war LIVE: US President Donald Trump said Saturday that Iran would "no longer exist" if the United States is "forced" to resume the war, as he accused Tehran of violating a ceasefire.

The threat came after US forces said they struck "multiple" Iranian targets Saturday in another tit-for-tat response to attacks on shipping in the vital Strait of Hormuz.

"United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

"There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!" Trump wrote.

US-Iran war LIVE: Iran ahs termed the latest US strikes on coastal town of Sirik as ‘flagrant violation’ of Islamabad MoU. “The US terrorist army’s aerial strikes on Iran’s coastal monitoring facilities constitute a clear violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter and a blatant breach of Article 1 of the ceasefire MoU,” the Foreign Ministry said, Press TV reported.

Iran-US war LIVE: Ibrahim al-Fiqar, Official military Spokesperson for Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, the operational command center that coordinates the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the regular Iranian army, said that Iran will regulate maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.

Fiqar, who made a series of posts on X, said that violation of the ceasefire will be met with a crushing response.

"Any new aggression, regardless of its pretext or the scale of its objectives, will be met with a crushing response. Violating the ceasefire constitutes a breach of Article 1 of the Islamabad Understanding and will lead to a complete halt of all tracks. Under the Islamabad understanding, Iran will regulate maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. Violent vessels will be dealt with more firmly than before.

Iran-US war LIVE: Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said it targeted eight US military installations in the region as it termed the the strikes as a "decisive response".

The IRGC said its Navy and Aerospace Force jointly carried out the operation between "2:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. on Sunday (local time)," targeting eight "key US military installations," including the "Ali Al Salem Airbase in Kuwait" and the “US Fifth Fleet headquarters at Salman Port in Bahrain”, Press TV reported.

Iran-US war LIVE: Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported that explosions were heard in Sirik, a town in southern Iran, but did not provide any further details.

The Revolutionary Guards said, "America's blind shots at Sirik will not resolve our dominance over the Strait of Hormuz. But our shots at violators will remind the rest of the vessels of the clear passage route."

US-Iran war news LIVE: Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday that they had launched strikes on Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation for US attacks on Iranian territory, warning that any further military action would receive a "crushing response".

Iran and the US have accused each other of breaching the fragile ceasefire, raising fresh concerns over talks aimed at bringing the conflict in West Asia to an end.

In a statement, the Guards said they had "destroyed eight important US military facilities at the Ali al-Salem base in Kuwait and at the Fifth Fleet naval base in Port Salman in Bahrain."

"Any enemy aggression, whatever the pretext, even against insignificant targets... will have a crushing response," the Guards added.

US-Iran war news LIVE: The United States carried out strikes on Iran on Friday in response to a drone attack on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier.

Overnight into Saturday, US central command said American forces had targeted Iranian missile and drone sites, along with coastal radar installations.

US vice president JD Vance, who has been leading negotiations with Iran, said on social media on Friday night that Tehran should "pick up the phone" if there were disagreements over the ceasefire agreement, warning that "violence will be met with violence."

US-Iran war news LIVE: Iran has launched multiple missiles and drones toward neighboring countries including Bahrain and Kuwait, a U.S. official told Reuters late on Saturday, in the latest escalation in the Middle East.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the situation was still unfolding but that there were no reported U.S. casualties or major impacts or damage to U.S. facilities in the Middle East at this time, the official said.

via Reuters

US-Iran war news LIVE: While the fresh escalation threatens to unravel the fragile detente that had largely ended fighting in the Middle East, an unnamed US official told CNN after the US strikes that they didn’t constitute a return to major combat operations for now.

US-Iran war news LIVE: A US official has told news agency Reuters that the situation with Iran is still unfolding. This comes after the two sides traded strikes, upending the war-ending interim deal signed recently.

US-Iran war news LIVE: Iran has launched multiple missiles and drones toward neighboring countries including Bahrain and Kuwait, a U.S. official told Reuters late on Saturday, in the latest escalation in the Middle East.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the situation was still unfolding but that there were no reported U.S. casualties or major impacts or damage to U.S. facilities in the Middle East at this time, the official said.

US-Iran war news LIVE: Ibrahim al-Fiqar, Official military Spokesperson for Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, the operational command center that coordinates the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the regular Iranian army, said that Iran will regulate maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.

Fiqar, in a series of posts on X, said that violation of ceasefire will be met with a crushing response.

"Any new aggression, regardless of its pretext or the scale of its objectives, will be met with a crushing response. Violating the ceasefire constitutes a breach of Article 1 of the Islamabad Understanding and will lead to a complete halt of all tracks. Under the Islamabad understanding, Iran will regulate maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. Violent vessels will be dealt with more firmly than before."

US-Iran war news LIVE: Iran issued a stern warning to its Gulf neighbours saying US bases in the region will experience hell in these days.

US-Iran war news LIVE: US President Donald Trump on Saturday (local time) said America struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites in tit-for-tat action for violating the ceasefire.

Trump threatened to wipe Iran out of existence if the violations continued.

In a post on Truth Social, he said, "United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN! It is very possible that they will never learn! There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist! President DJT."

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said early on Sunday that its navy and aerospace forces had launched a joint missile and drone operations targeting U.S. military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain in response to recent U.S. strikes against Iran.

"Violating the ceasefire is contrary to Clause 1 of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding and will result in the complete halt of all diplomatic processes", the Guards said in a statement, according to Press TV.

US-Iran war news LIVE: Iran Guards on Sunday said it struck Kuwait, Bahrain in retaliation for US attack.

US-Iran war news LIVE: Tehran and Washington traded accusations that the other had violated the ceasefire after Iran claimed on Saturday that it had targeted US sites in the Persian Gulf after American aircraft hit Iranian weapons sites on Friday.

The US strikes — on missile storage and coastal radar installations — were in response to an Iranian drone attack on a Singapore-flagged container ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday. The back-and-forth threatens to unravel the fragile detente that had largely ended fighting in the Middle East, though an unnamed US official told CNN after the US strikes that they didn’t constitute a return to major combat operations for now.

Iran’s foreign ministry in a statement on Saturday called the US attack “an explicit violation of the first paragraph of the Memorandum of Understanding” the two countries signed earlier this month. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed that it had struck US sites in response, though it wasn’t clear which and Iran has previously claimed retaliatory attacks that remain unconfirmed. US Central Command did not respond to a request for comment on the Iranian claims.

US Vice President JD Vance said that the US had “honored” the deal.

“If they have disagreements about how the MOU is being applied, they can pick up the phone,” he said on X on Friday. “But violence will be met with violence.”

via Bloomberg

US-Iran war news LIVE: Iran Guards vowed 'crushing response' against further US attacks after fresh flare-up in the region.

US-Iran war news LIVE: The US Central Command said it struck Iranian military targets (surveillance, comms, air defense, drone storage, minelayers) after Iran broke the ceasefire by hitting tanker M/T Kiku near the Strait of Hormuz.

US-Iran war news LIVE: US and Bahrain forces shot down 9 Iranian drones launched at US forces in Bahrain, Fox News reported.

US-Iran war news LIVE: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the U.S. military struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites for violating a U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement.

"There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

"If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist."

US-Iran war news LIVE: US Central Command said it struck 10 Iranian military targets in fresh strikes on Sunday. “U.S. Navy and Air Force fighter jets conducted strikes tonight on 10 Iranian military targets at multiple locations in and near the Strait of Hormuz for Iran's drone attack on M/T Kiku,” it said in a post on X as it shared a video of the strikes.