US President Donald Trump has accused Iran of carrying out a drone attack on a cargo vessel on Thursday and violating the US-Iran deal. In response, the US military has launched fresh strikes on Iran. DW has more.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said it targeted US military facilities in response to an attack on Friday — an attack the US says was a reaction to a drone strike on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.
According to reports by Iran’s Tasnim and IRNA news agencies, the IRGC said its navy targeted locations where US forces are deployed in the region. The reports did not provide additional information regarding the exact locations or the scale of the apparent attacks.
The IRGC condemned the strikes on Iran, saying the US “as always, violated its commitments and launched an airstrike” and that “if the aggression is repeated, our response will be more extensive.”
The US has said Friday’s strikes followed a drone attack it blames on Iran on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. The ship was damaged but able to continue its voyage.
Iran has claimed it has the right to control shipping in the narrow waterway in accordance with the interim deal to end the monthslong conflict.
US Vice President JD Vance said if Iranian officials were unhappy with how the Memorandum of Understanding is being applied “they can pick up the phone.”
In a post on X after the attacks, the US vice president also said the US “honored” the ceasefire deal.
“Iran signed a ceasefire agreement. We have honored it,” he wrote. “If they have disagreements about how the MOU is being applied, they can pick up the phone. But violence will be met with violence.”
As part of negotiations to reach the so-called Memorandum of Understanding, or MOU, which Vance helped negotiate earlier this month, Iran and the US established an office with the goal of heading off a spiral of attacks should skirmishes occur.
It was not immediately clear how the US strikes on Friday aligned with the first article of the MOU, which states, “The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current war, by signing this MOU, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations.”
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Friday’s attacks by the US military on Iran have concluded, according to reports in The New York Times and broadcaster CNN.
Six US Air Force F35 and F16 fighter jets struck four Iranian sites in 90 minutes of attacks along the Strait of Hormuz and on Qeshm Island, the US newspaper reported, citing an anonymous official.
After the US strike on Iran on Friday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has said its response would be “swift and decisive.” The IRCG’s statement was broadcast on state television, according to Reuters news agency.
The IRGC said its forces had repelled an attack by the US military on Sirik, on the coast near the Strait of Hormuz.
A report by the semiofficial FARS news agency, which has close ties to the IRGC, later said the military group had not made an official statement regarding the US strikes.
Iranian media had reported earlier that a pier in Sirik, on the coast of southern Iran, had been struck by the US.
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US President Donald Trump accused Iran of attacking a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz with four drones on his Truth Social account.
“One of the Drones solidly hit the upper deck of a large and very expensive Cargo Carrying ship,” while three others were intercepted, Trump said.
The US president said the attack was a violation of an ongoing ceasefire beteen the US and Iran, as laid out in the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding.
In response, US CENTCOM announced fresh strikes on Iran.
“US aircraft struck Iranian missiles and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites after Iran hit M/V Ever Lovely on June 25 with a one-way attack drone. The Singapore-flagged cargo ship was exiting the Strait of Hormuz along the Omani coast at the time of Iran’s attack,” CENTCOM said.
The Iranian attack on the cargo vessel was first announced by British maritime security agency UKMTO. The agency said the attack did not cause any casualties or environmental impact.
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It comes as a UN agency is coordinating an evacuation plan of stranded 11,000 seafarers in the Gulf through Hormuz.
The agency, the International Maritime Organization, paused the plan after the attack.
Iran has said that any country must coordinate with Iranian authorities if they want to passage through Hormuz.
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US President Donald Trump has accused Iran of attacking a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, jeopardizing a ceasefire deal between the US and Iran.
Meanwhile, the US has brokered a framework deal between Israel and Lebanon, but the details are still unclear.
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