President Donald Trump arrives to talk to reporters aboard Air Pressure One en route from Joint Base Andrews, Md., to Eau Claire, Wis., Friday, June 5, 2026.
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BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — The U.S. navy mentioned it shot down Iranian ballistic missiles and drones launched towards the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf Arab allies on Friday, whereas placing among the Islamic Republic’s coastal surveillance radar websites in response, an trade of fireplace that additional frayed a shaky ceasefire with Tehran.
The trade of strikes comes because the Trump administration ramps up stress on Iran to make a deal to finish the battle.
U.S. Central Command mentioned on social media Friday evening that Iran fired seven ballistic missiles towards Kuwait and Bahrain, with U.S. forces intercepting six of the missiles and a seventh failing to achieve its goal. The navy mentioned there have been no reviews of hurt to U.S. personnel.
The ballistic missiles have been fired after the U.S. earlier within the day shot down 4 Iranian drones that have been launched towards Strait of Hormuz.
“The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic,” U.S. Central Command mentioned on social media.
Kuwaiti’s navy mentioned forces have been intercepting missiles and drones attacking the nation, whereas Bahrain activated air raid sirens and instructed residents to maneuver to the closest protected location and observe official directions.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard mentioned it focused the Ali Al Salem airbase, which hosts U.S. forces in Kuwait, and the U.S. Navy’s fifth Fleet within the tiny Gulf island nation of Bahrain, in keeping with the state-run IRNA information company.
The U.S. navy is imposing a blockade on Iranian ports in response to Tehran’s chokehold on the essential hall for international oil and pure gasoline shipments, which has despatched vitality costs spiking and posed political issues for President Donald Trump’s Republican Social gathering forward of the midterm congressional elections.
U.S. Central Command mentioned it hit the radar websites, together with an island within the strait, “to defend against further attacks.”
Trump guarantees a fast finish to US-Iran battle
It was the most recent in back-and-forth assaults which have strained the tenuous ceasefire within the warfare and efforts to achieve a deal to increase that truce. Earlier this week, Iranian drones closely broken a passenger terminal at Kuwait’s essential airport, killing one particular person, wounding dozens and briefly closing the airfield.
Regardless of the assaults elevating new issues that the ceasefire may collapse, Trump instructed reporters Friday that “the situation with Iran seems to be going quite well.”
“We’re going to come out of Iran very quickly and it’s going to be very strong one way or the other, whether it’s a piece of paper or the very tough way,” Trump mentioned at an occasion with farmers in Wisconsin. “The very tough way is maybe the easier way, but we’re going to come out, and your fertilizer prices are going to go way down, just like they were four months ago.”
Trump more and more seems to be boxed in on a battle that has settled right into a holding sample. U.S. and Iranian negotiators reached a tentative settlement per week in the past to increase the ceasefire by 60 days and begin a brand new spherical of talks on Iran’s nuclear program. However Trump has referred to as for unspecified adjustments and Iranian officers have proven no public indicators of signing off on the deal.
Requested on Friday why it was taking so lengthy, Trump instructed NBC’s “Meet the Press” it was as a result of “it’s a very hard thing for them,” citing their “great independence” and the truth that “they’re strong, they’re proud.”
“There are things they never thought they’d be doing that they’re going to have to do. They’ve got no choice, and it takes a little while,” he mentioned within the interview.
Trump mentioned the Iranians nonetheless have 21% to 22% of their missiles.
Israeli strikes on Lebanon proceed
His administration additionally has touted the most recent ceasefire agreed to this week by the Lebanese authorities and Israel after U.S.-brokered talks in Washington. Nonetheless, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group has rejected the settlement and new assaults have put it at additional threat.
The Israeli navy on Friday struck a number of elements of southern Lebanon and issued evacuation warnings for 9 villages, together with one which has sheltered hundreds of individuals displaced by the preventing. The strikes killed 9 folks in six areas in southern Lebanon, the state information company reported.
The Israeli navy mentioned two troopers have been wounded, one severely, in an encounter Friday with militants in southern Lebanon.
The preventing in Lebanon, the place Israeli forces have seized massive swaths of the south, additionally threatens efforts to finish the Iran warfare and reopen the Strait of Hormuz as a result of Iran has demanded that any lasting truce lengthen to Lebanon.
In addition to the drone interception within the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. navy mentioned earlier Friday that its forces boarded a sanctioned oil tanker linked to Iran within the Indian Ocean as the US seeks to stop Iran from profiting off its oil and different items.
The U.S. additionally focused Iran’s vitality sector with new sanctions on a bunch of individuals, companies and tankers.
