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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on July 8 that it hit dozens of United States military facilities in Kuwait and Bahrain overnight in response to American strikes that targeted the Islamic Republic.
“In an initial response to this aggression, the IRGC Navy and Aerospace Force carried out a joint missile and drone operation, striking 85 key U.S. military facilities” in the two countries, the guards said in a statement carried by state broadcaster IRIB.
Kuwait confirmed that its air defenses responded to an attack with missiles and drones, and warning sirens sounded more than once in Bahrain.
Later, the IRGC announced that it had shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper combat drone near the city of Khormoj in the southern Iranian province of Bushehr. Brig. Gen. Hossein Mohabi, a spokesman for the guards, said the drone was targeted by an air defense system following what he called a U.S. “air aggression.”
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The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) launched what it described as “powerful strikes” against Iran overnight, saying that the attack was an “immediate response” to recent attacks by the Islamic Republic on commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
Blasts were heard near the port city of Bandar Abbas and in Sirik County in the southern province of Hormozgan. Qeshm Island was also hit. Additional strikes were reported in the southern province of Bushehr.
Meanwhile, in the city of Bandar-e Mahshahr in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, a service member of the IRGC Navy was killed in a strike.
CENTCOM said that the strikes hit Iranian air defense systems, command and control networks, coastal radar sites, anti-ship missile capabilities, and more than 60 small boats belonging to the IRGC Navy to “degrade Iran’s ability to continue attacking international commerce flowing through the international trade corridor.”
“Iran recently attacked three commercial vessels transiting the strait including Marshall Islands-flagged M/T Al Rekayyat, Saudi Arabia-flagged M/T Wedyan, and Liberian-flagged M/T Cyprus Prosperity,” the command said in a statement.
It further warned that “unwarranted aggression by Iranian forces is a clear and dangerous violation of the ceasefire and undermines freedom of navigation.”
The latest clash marks the most serious confrontation between the U.S. and Iran since the two signed a memorandum of understanding to end the war last month.
Commenting on the exchange of strikes overnight, U.S. President Donald Trump said that the memorandum of understanding “is over.”
“To me, I think it’s over,” Trump said of the deal while taking questions from reporters ahead of a summit of NATO leaders in Ankara. “I don’t want to deal with them. They’re scum.”
“They’re sick people. They’re led by sick people. And they’re vicious, violent people. And if they had a nuclear weapon, they’d use it. As far as I’m concerned, it’s over,” the U.S. president added.
He condemns the Islamic Republic for attacking vessels despite assurance by the U.S. that it wouldn’t escalate the conflict during funeral processions of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated at the start of the American-Israeli war: “We said, ‘Go and do your funeral stuff,’ and instead of that, they start shooting rockets at ships yesterday. And so we hit them very hard last night, very hard.”
Despite the recent escalation and Trump’s remarks, the memorandum of understanding is not officially over yet. The coming hours will certainly be decisive, however. If the U.S. renews strikes on Iran, under any pretext, we may see a return to full-on war.
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when trump said ““they’re sick people. they’re led by sick people. and they’re vicious, violent people. ” it seemed he was speaking of the israelis. what should a sociopath expect after a sneak attack killing hundreds of children and a deeply religious old man.
the trump usual…total projection. he speaks from his experiences with israelis.
every accusation is confession.
trump is such a disgusting piece of crap. i cannot believe he had the gall to assure iran that he and isnreal wouldn’t attack khamenei’s funeral. only a real piece of zionist crap would in the first place. trump=war crimes r us. this orange-faced sorry excuse for anything, much less a human, needs removed. permanently, before the world fries.
a sick pos president for a sick pos country.
those americans left that still believe in a viable constitution that is extinct since the state of emergency doctrine under the dhs after 9-11 also would agree that our time is indeed short. if the american taxpayer truly cared they would have showed up in washington to demand their grievances be heard and this war to stop in both theaters(s) eastern europe and the me -instead of having a “party” on it’s 250th anniversary!…
martial law has not yet been declared in america . when will it be declared ? all elections will be suspended like ukraine
really?… i sure as hell thought my country changed for the worst after the official designation through the patriot act(s) gave u.$. the dhs and ndaa and the war on terror… did you know that in some states you can go to prison for up to 10 years for the designation of weaponized language that is declared as wmd?… i know someone in an american penitentiary serving time for carrying no physical weapons only his own “words”!…
the only thing trump the turd has accomplished in the u.s. is to bring out the absolute worst in americans. especially those that still follow this maniacal sad excuse for a living creature. he has to be the very thing he looks like, the anti-christ come to be the destroyer of everything. how can so many be so damn stupid and evil?
only elderly americans believe in the legacy narrative. the young reject it. it is a dictatorship with zionist leadership
iran needs to quit playing nice…it only costs them more lives and destruction. eliminate israel completely. completely, not a hit here or there. give the u.s. no reason to be there. more of the same will reap more of the same. look at what ukr is doing to russia. the same is for iran if they don’t stop it. russia should bury ukr and get it over with. iran should hit every idf everywhere, syria, lebanon, isnreal. this has to end.
i agree. instead of iran sitting there waiting to be hit and only then retaliating, iran now has the justification to take the initiative – just keep on striking whenever it’s required until the zionist enemies are defeated and the threat eliminated.
that’s been the zionist strategy in iran and ukraine (among every other place too!) to just play along pretending for peace and then hit when it suits them for maximum damage. well… now it’s iran’s turn.
go get ’em iran!
sorry, sf doesn’t allow upvoting of your comment, isn’t sf wonderful.
trump mamador de pica do jefrey epstein
ele chupou o pênis de bill clinton deu a bunda para clinton e o chamou de meu rei é um presidente nojento
trump is calling iran “scum” again. that’s a bit rich coming from a thieving, kleptocratic fully paid up member of the epstein paedo club.
didn’t the usa used a nuclear weapon or two in the past? just asking.
o terrorista donald trump violou o cessar fogo que a resposta do irã seja como um terremoto e destrua israel e mate a monarquia saudita e a monarquia do bahrein e os emirados arabes unidos
whatever . new zognold deal/ceasefire by sunday night before the markets open
oh my gosh the americans didn’t keep their word again, perhaps someone should write a book? oh wait that would be called history! i remember somebody saying you shouldn’t negotiate with terrorists.
all theater. kushner and witkoff will go make another deal.
from the pie hole of the demented pedo-in-chief himself – “so i was saying we have an aircraft carrier, which is one of the most beautiful in the world. it’s one of the biggest, the [uss] abraham lincoln. and a few months ago, i told this story yesterday. we had 111 missiles shot by the islamic republic of japan. “…
i suspect netanyahu is rubbing his hands in joy now its lapdog is doing what they want again
americas largest regional stronghold is occupied palestine, and its proxies, which offers little or nothing of practical use to humanity. there is no profit in it.
sadly, 80 strike will not be enough to drive the epstine class away for good. the altar of globalism always requires sacrifice to supply its idolatry.
joos started 2 world wars to create israel. they are brainwashing the west for décades. they teach us self destruction. our heroes are depicted as terrorists. we will need way more heros to destroy their empire of lies.
the installation of israel had 10 prospective global locations. ask rothschild
nukes are coming to tehran soon…heheheh…
big war small targets
wow according to those two vids, the yanks hit 3 small parked boats and some grainy empty looking landscape. if that is the quality of their video fidelity i’m not surprised with how uselss us targetting is.
smoke those suckers! bbq’d amerikunts! heheheh
lets not pretend we dont see what the zionest have done. the gcc are taking on the blunt of iran strikes while the zionist continue opperations in the rear.
if things continue as they are i wont be surprised if iran send a couple of the smaller gcc states elites back into the desert to set a example for the rest…
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