Iran-US war latest: Trump warns Iran ‘will ​no longer exist’ as Tehran strikes US bases in Bahrain and Kuwait

U.S. Central Command said that its forces had carried out fresh strikes after a Panama-flagged tanker was attacked by an Iranian drone on Saturday.

“Iran was given a chance to honor the ceasefire agreement but elected not to,” Central Command said in a statement, adding that its strikes were “in direct response to continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping” and targeted Iranian military surveillance, communications, air defence, drone storage and mine-laying facilities.

Iranian state broadcaster IRIB said explosions were heard in Sirik in southern Iran, without providing details. The Guards said “America’s blind shots at Sirik will not resolve our dominance over the Strait of Hormuz. But our shots at violators will remind the rest of the vessels of the clear passage route.”

Saturday’s tanker attack in the strait followed one on a cargo ship on Thursday that triggered the latest escalation. Iran is seeking to assert control over the strait, which carried one-fifth of global oil and LNG supplies before the war and which had just begun to reopen after months of disruption.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said its navy and air forces had launched missile and drone operations targeting U.S. military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain in response to recent U.S. strikes against Iran.

The Guards said in a statement the U.S. strikes had violated the ceasefire and “will result in the complete halt of all diplomatic processes”, according to state-run Press TV.

The IRGC navy command said American bases in the region “will experience hell in the coming days”.

A U.S. official, confirming the attacks on U.S. facilities, told Reuters there were no reported U.S. casualties or major damage to U.S. sites in the Middle East but that the situation was still unfolding.

Hours later, alarms sounded for a second time in Bahrain, and the foreign ministry there condemned the attacks as a deliberate and repeated violation of the kingdom’s sovereignty and security. It urged the U.N. Security Council to hold an urgent session to hold Iran accountable.

Iran and the US continued to trade attacks as each accused the other of violating an interim deal signed less than two weeks ago to end their four-month-old war.

In a post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump confirmed the US had struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations.

“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,” Trump wrote. “If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!”

About an hour ​after Trump’s post, ⁠the Kuwaiti army said its air defences were responding to “hostile” missile and ‌drone attacks, while sirens sounded in Bahrain, according to that country’s interior ministry.

Iran said on Sunday that U.S. airstrikes targeted several monitoring and surveillance facilities on Iran’s southern coast, calling the attacks a violation of the interim deal meant to end the war.

“These ‌brutal attacks … show that the ⁠U.S. does not place the slightest value and credibility on its commitments, and breaking ‌promises is part ​of ‌its nature,” ⁠the Foreign ⁠Ministry said in a ‌statement.

Kuwait’s foreign ministry condemned Iranian attack, saying it expresses “strongest denunciation of the repeated heinous Iranian aggressions” against the country.

It called the Iranian attacks a “flagrant violation of its sovereignty”.

The ministry said the strikes undermined the ongoing regional and global efforts at de-escalation and “represent a direct challenge to the international will supporting this path”.

Kuwait said it “reserves its full right to take all necessary measures to safeguard its sovereignty, preserve its security and stability, and protect its people and the residents on its territory”.

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi is travelling to Iraq today to hold talks on regional and bilateral issues.

His ministry said Araghchi will also coordinate arrangements for funeral ceremonies for slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei in Iraq’s Shia holy sites.

The visit comes as Tehran prepares for days of funeral ceremonies for Khamenei, who was killed in the initial first hours of the US-Israeli war on Iran, and while Tehran remains locked in dispute with the US over the ceasefire, the Strait of Hormuz, and the future of regional fronts.

Authorities in Bahrain said this morning that they intercepted several Iranian attacks.

The interior ministry said the attacks damaged a residential building but caused no deaths.

Explosions were heard early this morning in the coastal Iranian city of Sirik.

State television reported that projectiles had hit a telecommunications tower in Tahrouyi village.

The news agency Fars reported that an explosion was also heard at Misin village on Qeshm Island in southern Iran.

The naval command of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said that the US “blind strikes” on Sirik did not resolve Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran and the US continued their attacks in the Gulf as each accused the other of violating an interim deal signed less than two weeks ago to end their four-month-old war.

“America’s blind strikes on Sirik will not undermine our control over the Strait. But our strikes against violators serve as a reminder to other vessels of the proper route for safe passage,” the Guard posted on X.

“As for US bases in the region, that is a separate matter. They will experience hell in the days ahead.”