Iran strikes Kuwait and Bahrain as escalating attacks threaten to unravel peace efforts

President Donald Trump has warned that the United States could be forced to return to war as a series of escalating reciprocal strikes with Iran continued into Sunday, threatening to unravel peace efforts between the two countries.Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscriptionGet exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading.Bahrain and Kuwait faced fresh Iranian attacks early Sunday, hours after U.S.Central Command said it had hit multiple targets across Iran in response to “continued aggression” against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.“United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN!” President Donald Trump posted Saturday on Truth Social.

“It is very possible that they will never learn! There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started.If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!”CENTCOM said in a statement Saturday that U.S.

fighter jets conducted strikes on 10 Iranian military targets at multiple locations.Iran was “given a chance to honor the ceasefire agreement but elected not to when its forces launched a one-way attack drone,” it said, referring to an attack on a Panama-flagged vessel on Saturday.Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had launched further missiles and drones at U.S.military infrastructure in Kuwait and Bahrain, in a statement reported by state media.American bases “will experience hell in these coming days,” said IRGC Navy command, as reported by Iran’s semi-official Fars newrs agency.Bahrain, which hosts the U.S.

Navy’s 5th Fleet, said Sunday that a residential building was damaged by the overnight attacks, with “no loss of life.”The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its “strongest condemnation” of Iranian attacks on the ...

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