The United States launched airstrikes on Iran on Friday, just over a week after President Donald Trump signed a ceasefire deal meant to end the war.
U.S. Central Command said its forces hit Iranian missile and drone storage sites and coastal radar stations. It called the strikes a response to an Iranian attack on a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
That attack came a day earlier. Iran struck the Singapore-flagged cargo ship Ever Lovely with a one-way attack drone on June 25, as the vessel left the strait along the Omani coast.
Trump said the drone hit the ship’s upper deck, but it kept moving. He blamed Iran directly.
“Obviously, this is a foolish violation of our Ceasefire Agreement,” he wrote on Truth Social.
“The unwarranted aggression against commercial shipping by Iranian forces clearly violated the ceasefire,” CENTCOM said, adding that Iran’s behavior threatened the free flow of ships through the vital trade route.
Trump signed the deal on June 17, starting a 60-day window of talks aimed at a permanent end to the fighting. The truce has looked shaky from the start.
A central fight is the Strait itself. Iran insists it controls the waterway and can charge ships to pass. The United States and six Gulf states have rejected that.
Roughly a fifth of the world’s oil and gas moves through the Strait of Hormuz. Oil prices fell about 3% on Friday as traders weighed the conflicting signals.
Trump warned this month that if Iran did not honor the deal, including keeping the strait open, the U.S. would probably go back to bombing the country.
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