Iran launched a barrage of seven ballistic missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain on Saturday.
Gulf monarchies condemn the strikes as a “flagrant violation of sovereignty.”
U.S. forces responded with direct strikes on Iranian coastal radar sites.
CENTCOM confirms intercepting multiple one-way attack drones over the Strait of Hormuz.
The fragile April ceasefire is effectively dead after this weekend’s exchange.
The theatre of proxy war has collapsed into direct confrontation.
The Gulf is now a combat zone where one miscalculation triggers a regional explosion.
Expect oil and gas markets to price in a permanent risk premium starting Monday.
🚨 BREAKING: Fox News confirms a massive escalation. After the Pentagon struck Iranian radar sites, Tehran immediately retaliated by firing ballistic missiles towards US allies Bahrain and Kuwait.
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US bases and and Israeli assets in the region have become “legitimate targets,” Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a post on X on Sunday.
“They neither abide by the ceasefire nor believe in dialogue, and through the naval blockade and violations of the agreements regarding Lebanon, they have shown that they only understand the language of force,” Ghalibaf said.
“The naval blockade against the Iranian nation and America’s green light today to the Zionist regime turn American and regime bases and assets in the region into legitimate targets. The hand of our armed forces is open, as always,” he added.
Iran launches missiles at Israel.
- US President Donald Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Axios reported, after he said he would tell Bibi him not to respond to Iran’s missile attacks.
- Missiles were launched from Iran toward Israel a short time ago and defense systems are operating to intercept the threat, the Israeli military said in a statement.
- US bases and and Israeli assets in the region have become “legitimate targets,” Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a post on X on Sunday.
- US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he did not plan to withdraw US troops from the region, telling NBC News that “I think we’ll keep them there until such time as we have a completion.”
- A US-drafted resolution sent to countries on the UN nuclear watchdog’s board demands Iran provide “precise information” on its bombed nuclear sites and enriched uranium stocks, Reuters reported on Sunday.
Kuwait and Bahrain targeted by Iran after exchange of fire with US
Iran attacks American bases in Gulf states after Washington shoots down drones and strikes Iranian radar sites