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Iran shot down another United States drone over the Persian Gulf over the night of May 31 and June 1, triggering another clash with American forces.
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement that it conducted “self-defense strikes” on Iranian radar and command and control sites for drones in Goruk, Iran and Qeshm Island after the drone, an MQ-1, was shot down over “international waters.”
“U.S. fighter aircraft swiftly responded by eliminating Iranian air defenses, a ground control station, and two one-way attack drones that posed clear threats to ships transiting regional waters, the command added.
The command noted that “no American service members were harmed,” stressing that it “will continue to protect U.S. assets and interests in response to unwarranted Iranian aggression during the ongoing ceasefire.”
Right after, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement of its own that its Aerospace Force targeted an air base that was used by the U.S. to launch strikes against a telecommunications tower on Sirik Island.
The retaliatory strikes destroyed pre-designated targets linked to the attack, according to the guards, who warned that any further military action by the U.S. would trigger what it described as a “completely different” response from the Islamic Republic.
Sirens sounded in Kuwait around the same time, with the Gulf state’s national news agency reporting that air defenses were engaging drones and missiles.
The target of the Iranian retaliatory strikes was reportedly Ali Al Salem Air Base. Located in the heart of Kuwait, the air base hosts the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing of the U.S. Air Force and other American military units. It is generally considered one of CENTCOM’s main hubs in the Middle East.
In a statement, Kuwait’s foreign ministry said that it holds Iran “fully responsible for these heinous attacks.” The ministry also cautioned that the attacks undermine efforts to reduce tensions in the region, and stressed that Kuwait has the right to take all necessary measures to defend its territory.
Amid this escalation, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said that lack of trust between the Islamic Republic and the U.S. remains the main issue.
“Negotiations have started amid severe suspicion and mistrust, and the exchange of messages is taking place in this atmosphere,” Baghaei said.
“The other party is constantly changing its views and putting forward new or contradictory demands… it is natural that this situation will prolong negotiations,” he warned, adding that Tehran views Israeli actions in the region, including in Lebanon, as inseparable from the U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump, from his side, remained optimistic. In a post to Truth Social, he said that Iran really wants to make a deal, and that it will be a good one for Washington and its allies.
“Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us,” Trump wrote.
He went on to lament the constant “chirping” by various politicians and commentators about the situation, which he claims is making it harder “to properly do my job.”
“Don’t the Dumocrats, and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans, understand that it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively ‘chirping,’ at levels never seen before, over and over again, that I should move faster, or move slower, or go to war, or not go to war, or whatever. Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end – It always does!” Trump added.
The past month saw several similar clashes between the U.S. and Iran, even after reports of progress in talks on a memorandum of understanding meant to end the war.
As pointed out by Baghaei, lack of trust remains the main issue, and Tehran in particular has every right to be wary of Washington. The U.S. military buildup in the Middle East is still ongoing, recent reports suggest that the Trump administration is still exploring military options, and Israel is openly trying to push for a return to fighting.
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https://hawarnews.com/ar/142257 they caught the traitorous scoundrel. these people are worse than the gay prostitutes in antwerp. antwerp gays probably wouldn’t betray their homeland so shamelessly.
don’t you think you’re being a little bit harsh on the gay prostitutes? they probably have quite high ethical and moral standards compared to the low life quisling arab scum running the gulf.
for to not speak about if adolf trump had stayed using young whores ! but no, he must murder, and then get voted to “president” by the working slave cast, because they have not enough zeros for the whores 😂 its a complete upside down world. complete idioti, instead of fuck the whores, they vote for to get killed 😂 stand them under the gallows, so they can say their classical reply.
mind boggling !
keep on with the excrement. 💩
trump would do better at ‘diplomacy’ if he wasn’t surrounded by joo’s and sycophants and people who are to scared to tell him to his face that things are not the same as he’s being told by his inner circle. plus if his ego wasn’t so big, he’d understand that being potus requires being calm headed and responsible. “great power involves great responsibility.” franklin d. roosevelt
chumpo is doing a great job of running the united snakes into the ground. just consider his achievements:- 1. looting the economy for the benefit of himself and his cronies, impoverishing and alienating the bulk of the population, including the maga retards. 2. dragging the reputation of the united snakes through the mud by his support for genocide, terrorism, wars of aggression and general s*itfu*kery. 3. disgusting everyone through obsequious grovelling to the jooz.
4. alienating even the most subservient vassals like canada/ denmark/ the quisling gulf sheikhs. 5. revealing how weak and impotent the united snakes actually is, and how much its “protection” is worth.i am firmly convinced that chumpo must be a paid agent of putin, xi, and the ayatollah. more power to his elbow! may he live long and prosper!
so you mean he does a great job in destruction, as adolf hitler rothschild ? or as russia, killing slavs in a war “us” have started ? or as china, going along with mass murder in the hospitals, effectuated by “un” ? you have done the same mistake as the worshipers of einstein, allegedly a pascifist with allegedly world record in burning of humans. the lizards interpret that as free mass murder for ever. russia wholeheartly kill slavs as thanks 😂
tell that to adolf hitler rothschild, when he was shewing on the carpets 😂 i find adolf trump the same, something unpleasant and embarrassing. its because they are the same, now genocide the real jews. anything can be called jews, because brits and christianity have colonial the mind, so called “religion”. already the egyptians had walking cadavers 😂
eye-ran has made half a billion bucks from hormuz tolls over the past week. that’s almost as much as chumpo and his loathsome family made from insider trading over the past week. why don’t the houthis do the same with bab el mandeb? k-e-r-c-h-i-n-g!
if people do not was so brainwashed, they had understand, that the similarity between nazis in germany and “us” are that they must get killed.
how good could a deal where all your war aims failed and the regime you claimed to destroy has won? that’s the deal trump is being dragged by his dirty mop of hair and forced to make after losing the war
yees, but “us”, europe, ukraine, “israel” and russia are still full of lice from that hair. the deal are still that you die, they lie. a famine was maybe the whole idea ? agriculture will not work very well, if diesel are beginning to become scarse