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U.S. forces downed four Iranian attack drones headed toward the Strait of Hormuz and intercepted six of seven ballistic missiles Iran launched at Kuwait and Bahrain, CENTCOM said, before striking Iranian radar sites in Goruk and on Qeshm Island.
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CENTCOM says U.S. forces shot down four Iranian attack drones and six ballistic missiles launched towards the Strait of Hormuz
U.S. forces launched retaliatory strikes on Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in Goruk and on Qeshm Island
President Donald Trump said Iran has 21%-22% of its missile arsenal compared to what it had before U.S. strikes in February
Israel launched airstrikes on southern Lebanon that killed 9 people, including members of the Lebanese army, days after reaching a U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Lebanon
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) intercepted six Iranian ballistic missiles fired toward Kuwait and Bahrain after American forces struck Iranian radar sites, as tensions continue to rise amid stalled negotiations between Washington and Tehran.
Fox News foreign correspondent Jeff Paul reported from Dubai that Iran launched seven ballistic missiles toward the Gulf allies after CENTCOM forces shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones and carried out retaliatory strikes on radar sites in Goruk and on Qeshm Island.
“Officials in Kuwait are describing those recent overnight strikes here in the Gulf as a serious escalation,” Paul said on “Fox Report.”
CENTCOM said six of the seven missiles were intercepted, while the seventh failed to reach its intended target.
Former CIA station chief and Fox News contributor Dan Hoffman said Iran appears to be trying to “drive up the costs of the war” for the United States by disrupting trade through the Strait of Hormuz, escalating Hezbollah strikes against Israel and targeting Gulf allies.
“Iran feels like that gives them added leverage,” Hoffman said, referring to domestic political pressure facing the Trump administration ahead of the midterms.
Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, said he believes that a decision from President Donald Trump to launch strikes on Iran is “inevitable” during a Saturday appearance on “Fox News Live.”
Fallon, who sits on both the House Armed Services Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, agreed with Lebanon’s president Joseph Aoun, who accused Iran of using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the U.S.
“The IRGC is not rational, the president of Lebanon got it exactly right, and it’s just putting up yet another unreasonable obstacle, really, to negotiation.”
Lebanon and Israel agreed to a U.S.-brokered ceasefire on Thursday after Iranian officials claimed they would not negotiate any further on peace talks with the U.S. as long as Israeli forces were conducting operations in Lebanon.
The Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, which is Israel’s target in the Lebanese operations, refused to agree to the ceasefire.
Fallon also concurred with former CENTCOM Deputy Commander Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward, saying that Iran has never negotiated in good faith.
“Unfortunately this needs to end either easy or hard and I think it’s gonna be hard,” Fallon said.
When asked if Trump should scrap talks altogether and launch strikes on Iran, Fallon responded “I think that’s inevitably what’s gonna happen because you’re not negotiating with someone, really, that’s even pragmatic.”
Fallon continued to say he believes the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are in charge right now and posited that the group is too radical to negotiate with.
“They are the most militant zealots and they’re not going to give up the enriched uranium and they won’t open the Straits [of Hormuz] so force is the only option, unfortunately, that I think is left to the president,” Fallon said.
New student-led protests broke out across several Iranian cities Saturday, with demonstrators chanting against economic hardship, government corruption and political repression in a renewed challenge to the Islamic Republic, according to videos and reporting from The Foreign Desk.
Video shared online showed crowds gathering in Tehran and other urban centers as students appeared to spill out from university campuses into surrounding streets.
“The regime’s biggest reckoning won’t come on a battlefield abroad, but in its own streets at home,” Iran expert and Foreign Desk editor-in-chief Lisa Daftari told Fox News Digital.
“A huge segment of Iran’s population is deeply disenchanted — they want basic freedoms and they are signaling that they will not only risk their lives for that, as they did in January, but they are not backing down,” Daftari said.
Daftari said years of repression, paired with soaring inflation, economic collapse and dwindling opportunities, have “eroded the fear barrier, especially among the young.”
“These protests underscore a fundamental reality: Iran’s leadership faces a legitimacy crisis that cannot be resolved through repression alone,” she added.
Fox News contributor and Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen praised President Donald Trump’s handling of the conflict with Iran while warning against giving Tehran financial relief in any future agreement.
Speaking with Fox News host Mark Levin, Thiessen called Trump’s decisions to launch Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Epic Fury “one of the most courageous decisions any president has made in my lifetime.”
Thiessen said the operations “buried the Iranian nuclear program so deep in the ground” that Iran has allegedly acknowledged it cannot retrieve key materials without outside help, while also claiming the strikes rendered centrifuges inoperable and destroyed major elements of Iran’s military infrastructure.
“My big concern with the deal is that the Iranians are down, but they’re not out,” Thiessen said. “We should not give them a hand to help them up by giving them a dime as part of any deal.”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has directed his team to assess whether Iranian assets could be used to help Gulf allies rebuild and repair damage caused by Iran during the ongoing conflict, according to a source familiar with the secretary’s thinking.
“Treasury will utilize all tools available to allow Iranian assets to be made available to our Gulf allies to support rebuilding and repairs for any future damage caused by Iran,” the source said on background to FOX Business.
The source added that Bessent also directed Treasury officials to assess conditions among Gulf allies and request “comprehensive estimates” of costs associated with repairing damage Iran has inflicted since the conflict began.
Treasury is also considering whether Iranian assets could be used to support repairs for past damages tied to Iran, the source said.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth commemorated the 82nd anniversary of D-Day in Normandy on Saturday while global tensions with Iran and ongoing conflicts in the Middle East continue to dominate U.S. national security concerns.
Hegseth, who is also celebrating his birthday, delivered remarks at the Normandy American Cemetery honoring the Allied troops who stormed the beaches of France on June 6, 1944, during World War II.
“As we face an increasingly complex threat environment, we apply the lessons from 82 years ago learned on these beaches: strong allies, each fully committed to doing their part, win wars,” Hegseth said.
The Pentagon chief used the anniversary to stress the importance of military readiness and allied burden-sharing, themes he has repeatedly emphasized during the Trump administration’s ongoing standoff with Iran.
Hegseth later shared video Saturday of rubbing sand from Omaha Beach into a gravestone at the American cemetery, a tradition on the anniversary.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) shared video Saturday of Mongolian Air Force Maj. Enkhtuvshin Namjildorj participating in M4 familiarization training during Exercise Regional Cooperation 26.
“It’s really nice to be here learning and collaborating with international officers,” Namjildorj said in the video released by CENTCOM.
CENTCOM said the exercise demonstrates how “U.S. forces and our partners are stronger when we train and operate together.”
White House principal deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said Saturday that President Donald Trump “isn’t going to rush into a bad deal” with Iran as negotiations continue over Tehran’s nuclear program.
“The president isn’t going to rush into a bad deal, and he’s been very clear that his red lines are Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon,” Kelly said during an appearance on “Fox News Live.”
“They can’t keep this enriched uranium that would be quickly improved to produce a nuclear weapon,” she added. “So Americans can rest assured any deal is going to be a good deal for the United States, and it’s going to protect our national security here in the short term, in the long term.”
Kelly’s comments come as tensions remain high in the Middle East following recent U.S. strikes on Iranian radar sites and ongoing clashes between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Retired Gen. Jack Keane outlined the U.S. strategy in ongoing negotiations with Iran, explaining that the U.S. has no plans to offer concessions to the Islamic Republic that would unfreeze assets during a Saturday morning appearance on Fox News’ “Saturday In America.”
“What we’re trying to achieve in the negotiations is pretty simple; We want our maximalist demands that we would achieve if we were using military force. That is what we want from the regime,” Keane said.
“We don’t intend to throw then a lifeline and unfreeze frozen assets to them and give them billions of dollars so that they can recover, reverse the tenants and implementations of the deal and go back to where they were,” he concluded.
Recent stalls in U.S.-Iran negotiations have tempered expectations raised by a May 28 Axios report, which claimed the sides had agreed to a memorandum of understanding (MOU), pending President Donald Trump’s approval.
That MOU reportedly included a provision to issue sanction waivers and allow Iran to sell oil freely, according to Axios. The sanction relief, according to the outlet, would have to be proportional to Iran‘s willingness to allow commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz to resume.
But Iran, according to The Jerusalem Post and other sources, balked at the proposal and demanded immediate release of their frozen assets, an ask the Trump Administration has yet to fulfill.
In fact, the Trump Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a fresh round of sanctions on Iranian liquified natural gas (LNG) networks Friday targeting “Iran’s shadow fleet, shadow banking networks, and access to global trade,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) posted photos of a combat mission onboard the USS Tripoli in the Arabian Sea on Saturday.
The photos showed U.S. sailors and Marines rappelling out of a MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter onto the warship amid ongoing tensions in the region.
The USS Tripoli, one of two of the Navy’s new America Class amphibious assault ships, arrived to CENTCOM’s area of responsibility, which includes the Arabian Sea and the Strait of Hormuz, in late March.
Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Iranian attacks on Kuwait and Bahrain in a Saturday statement, calling them “a blatant violation of the sovereignty of both countries and a flagrant violation of international law.”
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stresses the need to spare the region the repercussions of these unjustified attacks and to work towards de-escalation in order to restore regional and international security and stability,” the statement read.
“The Ministry reiterates the State of Qatar‘s full solidarity with the State of Kuwait and the Kingdom of Bahrain and its support for all measures they take to preserve their sovereignty and security,” the statement concluded.
Pakistan‘s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi will travel to Iran on Saturday to offer new proposals in an attempt to revive stalled peace talks between the U.S. and Iran, according to reports from Iranian and Turkish state media.
Naqvi’s visit follows a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Eskandar Momeni at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)’s Interior Ministers’ Meeting on Friday, Iranian state media agency Merh reported.
Naqvi will reportedly meet with Iranian leaders to discuss “new proposals” to renew peace talks between the warring nations, Turkish state media Anadolu reported, citing Pakistani sources.
Peace talks have stalled in the wake of conflict between Israeli forces and the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon, with Iran specifically citing Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon as a primary barrier to overcome in any ceasefire deal.
Naqvi has been a frequent diplomatic go-between for the U.S. and Iran, working in concert with Pakistan’s Army Chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, who President Donald Trump has frequently praised as a great leader.
Naqvi has participated in numerous high level meetings with U.S. diplomats, including a recent summit with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs S. Paul Kapur
Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday killed nine people, including three members of the Lebanese military, The Associated Press reported, citing the Lebanese army and state media.
The strikes come just days after Israel and Lebanon reached a new ceasefire deal following U.S.-brokered talks. The Lebanese government has accused the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group of dragging the country into another war.
Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun condemned the latest Israeli strike as “a flagrant violation to Lebanese sovereignty and international law,” adding that it came in the context of “ongoing escalation that threatens stability and security in the south (of Lebanon), despite the efforts Lebanon is exerting in the Washington negotiations to put an end to the ongoing Israeli attacks without deterrent.”
Lebanon’s army said an airstrike on a vehicle on a road linking the city of Nabatiyeh with the town of Marjayoun killed a brigadier general, a captain and another soldier, according to the AP.
Another airstrike on the southern village of Saksakiyah killed six people and wounded four, state-run National News Agency reported.
“The continued, deliberate, and repeated Israeli aggression against Lebanon, its people and its army only strengthens our resolve, faith and determination,” the Lebanese army said in its statement.
It said Israel’s attacks aim to thwart all efforts “to reach a solution that would restore stability, establish a comprehensive ceasefire and lead to the Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Lebanese territories.”
The Israeli military confirmed hitting a vehicle and said the incident is being reviewed. The statement added that the vehicle was “moving suspiciously” toward Israeli soldiers near the village of Kfar Tibnit, after the military received “concrete indications” that Hezbollah would direct fire toward Israeli soldiers from the same area.
The Israeli military said that it operates against Hezbollah and not against the Lebanese army.
On Friday, Aoun and Lebanon’s prime minister criticized Iran for opposing the latest ceasefire deal between the Lebanese government and Israel, saying their country should not be used by Tehran as a “bargaining chip” in its talks with Washington.
Israeli forces have advanced farther into Lebanon than at any time since Israel ended its occupation in 2000, with troops controlling roughly one-fifth of the country, according to the AP. The offensive follows Hezbollah attacks launched after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran when Operation Epic Fury began in late February, opening a new front in the regional conflict.
The Associated Press contributed to this post.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said Friday that American forces shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones launched toward the Strait of Hormuz, calling them an “immediate threat” to regional maritime traffic.
CENTCOM said U.S. forces later struck Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in Goruk and on Qeshm Island “to defend against further attacks.”
“American forces remain vigilant and postured to respond to unjustified Iranian aggression in self-defense,” CENTCOM said in a statement posted to X.
CENTCOM also said it intercepted six of seven Iranian ballistic missiles, with the seventh failing to reach its target.
Additionally, CENTCOM refuted Iranian reports that Iran damaged the U.S. 5th fleet headquarters in Bahrain, calling the claim “false.”
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