The United States and Iran traded a new round of attacks overnight into Thursday, intensifying an exchange that has threatened the collapse of their agreement to end the war.Subscribe to read this story ad-freeGet unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.The American military said it hit around 90 targets in airstrikes across Iran, hours after President Donald Trump said he considered the tenuous ceasefire between the two countries over following Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.Tehran retaliated with attacks on three Gulf states — a wave of strikes that sparked alerts in U.S.
allies Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait — as the two sides accused each other of violating the terms of their interim deal.The two days of renewed fighting cast doubt on whether Washington and Tehran remained committed to reaching a final deal to end the war, which was launched by the U.S.and Israel in February.The U.S.
military directly referenced Iran’s attacks on commercial ships in announcing the new strikes late Wednesday.“U.S.
forces struck approximately 90 Iranian military targets including air defense systems, coastal surveillance assets, missile and drone storage sites, naval capabilities, and military logistics infrastructure along Iran’s coastline,” it said.A video released by Central Command on Tuesday showing retaliatory strikes against Iran.@CENTCOM / via XIranian state media reported multiple explosions in cities across the country’s south, and its foreign ministry denounced the strikes as a “gross war crime,” saying they targeted civilian infrastructure including two railway bridges.It said the bridges that were attacked lie on the route to Mashhad, where officials plan to bury the country’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday.
At least 14 people were killed and another 78 wounded in the two days of U.S.attacks, the Islamic Republic’s health ministry said Thursday in its first overall count of casual...