LATEST: Furious over tensions in Hormuz, Trump says he is ready to destroy Iran, Tehran retaliates
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Despite negotiations to try to seal a peace agreement, hot and cold continue to blow between the United States and Iran. And it is even the very cold which currently prevails in the Middle East. The attacks have in fact resumed. Americans and Iranians exchanged new strikes on Saturday and Sunday, accusing each other of violations of their fragile ceasefire signed on June 17. And Donald Trump has once again threatened to go to war again to destroy the Islamic Republic. An oil tanker attacked by an Iranian drone These new hostilities are linked to the control of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, locked by Iran during the war launched against it on February 28 by Israel and the United States. The strait reopened under the June 17 memorandum of understanding, but Iran has only authorized one passage corridor and threatens to attack any ship that does not comply. On Saturday, the US air force targeted ten targets, including “Iranian military surveillance infrastructure, communications systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities and mine laying assets”, wrote the United States Central Command (Centcom) on X. Ces bombardements ont été décidés en représailles à une attaque par un drone iranien d’un pétrolier battant pavillon panaméen, le M/T Kiku, qui transportait plus de deux millions de barils de pétrole brut à travers le détroit.La lourde menace des Gardiens de la révolutionCe dimanche, les Gardiens de la révolution, armée idéologique de l’Iran, ont annoncé avoir lancé en représailles des missiles et des drones vers le Koweït et Bahreïn. “Any enemy aggression, whatever the pretext, even against insignificant targets […] will receive an implacable response,” they warned. The United States had already carried out its first known strikes against Iran on Friday since the signing of a memorandum of understanding on June 17. The American army said it had acted, again, in retaliation for the attack on a cargo ship by a drone in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump puts the existence of Iran at stake The Guardians stressed this Sunday that “provisions have been made to control traffic in the Strait of Hormuz”. “From now on, non-compliant vessels will be treated with increased firmness.” On Thursday, the Guardians warned against any crossing of the strait without their authorization and threatened ships that did not comply, after the announcement by Oman, located on the other shore, of another route. Our file on the War in the Middle East Iran has “violated, AGAIN, the ceasefire agreement!” », Accused Donald Trump on Saturday evening on Truth Social. “It may be that one day we will no longer be able to demonstrate reason and that we will be forced to carry out by military force the mission that we have started so well. If this happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will cease to exist! “, he added. Peace is therefore still very far from being achieved.
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Source: This article was originally published by 20Minutes – Actu Monde and adapted for our international English-speaking audience.
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