Iranian Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks throughout a information convention together with his Iraqi counterpart Fouad Hussein after their assembly on the international ministry in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 28, 2026.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed accountability for launching drone and missile assaults on Bahrain and Kuwait on Sunday, in keeping with a press release issued by way of state-run Iranian media. The tried strikes got here hours after new U.S. army motion in opposition to Iranian targets. The newest trade has put negotiations towards an enduring ceasefire in grave jeopardy.
It was essentially the most important escalation since Iran and the U.S. signed a memorandum of understanding earlier this month. Below that settlement, either side gave themselves 60 days to resolve key disputes. These embrace transport preparations within the Strait of Hormuz, the elimination of a U.S. blockade on Iranian ports, sanctions reduction and the way forward for Iran’s stockpile of extremely enriched uranium.
Kuwait stated its air defenses had intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles. There have been no reviews of accidents or injury. Bahrain’s Inside Ministry stated Iranian munitions hit a residential constructing close to the worldwide airport. Nobody was killed. The ministry launched images of an eight-story constructing with its prime flooring destroyed and home windows blown out. The constructing was not close to the headquarters of the U.S. Navy’s fifth Fleet. The fleet relies in Bahrain and got here underneath sustained assault in the course of the conflict.
Bahrain’s Overseas Ministry condemned what it known as “a dangerous escalation that reveals that what Tehran is doing is not a passing act, nor an isolated incident, but rather a deliberate approach and a systematic pattern of repeated aggression.”
An Israeli flag tops a destroyed constructing in southern Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel, Sunday, June 28, 2026.
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Escalating violence between Israel and Hezbollah
In the meantime, elevated violence between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon continues to inflame tensions tensions within the area. On Sunday,the armed group Hezbollah killed an Israeli soldier in Deir Siryan village in southern Lebanon on Sunday, in keeping with Israel’s army, which stated it responded by killing the person accountable. Hezbollah’s chief stated Saturday the group would struggle on till Israel withdraws from southern Lebanon, in keeping with a press release carried in a pro-Hezbollah native media outlet. One other Lebanese media outlet reported that Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf known as for an pressing assembly of a newly shaped battle management unit involving Iran, the USA and Lebanon.
Israel’s army chief of employees, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, warned of continued operations throughout a go to with troops within the nation’s northern border area with Lebanon. “We are prepared to rapidly resume offensive operations in both Lebanon and Iran if required,” he stated, in keeping with Israeli media.
The ceasefire signed earlier this month didn’t embrace Iran or Hezbollah. Israel has stated it is not going to withdraw from southern Lebanon till Hezbollah is disarmed. Hezbollah has rejected that demand.
Israeli troopers are seen at a memorial website on the border with Lebanon in northern Israel, Sunday, June 28, 2026.
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U.S. and Iran proceed strait dispute
The rapid set off for Sunday’s assaults by Tehran was a contemporary spherical of U.S. motion in opposition to Iran, as late on Saturday, U.S. Central Command stated it had hit ten Iranian army targets. These included surveillance infrastructure, communication programs, air protection websites, drone storage services and minelayer capabilities. The U.S. army stated the operation was in response to an Iranian assault within the strait of Hormuz on a Panamanian-flagged tanker, the Kiku, on Saturday. The vessel was carrying crude oil for Qatar’s state-run power firm. Qatar has been a key mediator between Iran and the USA.
The Kiku assault was a part of a sample that started Thursday. A suspected Iranian drone hit a service provider vessel off Oman. U.S. forces responded with army motion in opposition to Iranian websites on Friday. Management over the strait is on the coronary heart of the dispute. Iran insists it alone should govern the waterway, which as soon as carried a fifth of the world’s oil and pure gasoline.
Iranian Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi restated that place on Sunday. “Any attempt to establish new or separate arrangements from those currently being carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran will only lead to further complications, delay the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and increase the level of tension,” he stated.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Sunday Iran might halt negotiations solely if U.S. army motion continued, in keeping with a social media submit by Iranian state-run media.
President Trump posted on social media late on Saturday and accused Iran of violating the ceasefire. He warned there might come some extent the place the U.S. might now not be cheap “and will be forced to militarily complete the job,” warning additional that “If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!”
