Iran announced a fresh wave of strikes on Sunday against four Gulf countries and Jordan, a day after its first round, saying the attacks were retaliation for overnight American bombardment. Tehran said the strikes targeted US military installations in the region.
Jordan's army said it had shot down four Iranian missiles © Mena Today
Iran announced a fresh wave of strikes on Sunday against four Gulf countries and Jordan, a day after its first round, saying the attacks were retaliation for overnight American bombardment. Tehran said the strikes targeted US military installations in the region.
The exchange of fire marked the most intense escalation on both sides since the April 8 ceasefire.
Jordan's army said Sunday morning it had shot down four Iranian missiles "that had entered Jordanian airspace from Iranian territory," according to a military source, adding there were no injuries or material damage.
Kuwait's military said it was engaging "hostile aerial targets" in the emirate's airspace, where Tehran struck two air bases. "Three border posts in the north of the country were the target of a cowardly attack, causing material damage," the defense ministry said in a statement, adding that "an offshore drilling platform belonging to the Kuwait Oil Company... was targeted by a hostile drone, wounding one employee and causing material damage."
Air raid sirens sounded at dawn Monday in Bahrain, the interior ministry said, while strikes also hit Oman.
The US military had earlier announced Sunday evening it had launched a fresh round of strikes on Iran "to prevent it from attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz."
It marked the fourth round of strikes exchanged between Iran and the United States since last week, further destabilizing the Islamabad memorandum of understanding signed in mid-June between the two countries to end the war launched on February 28 by the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran.
A proposed deal between Iran and Oman would give Tehran control over ships entering the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, a senior Iranian source and two regional officials told Reuters on Wednesday, in one of the biggest concessions yet to Iran.
The U.S. Treasury said on Wednesday it had removed counter-terrorism sanctions from Iraq's Fly Baghdad Airlines and two aircraft that were imposed in 2024 over links to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, citing changes in the airline's behavior.
Qatar said mediators were making progress in efforts to end the U.S.-Iran war on Tuesday, driving oil prices lower, although Tehran has denied President Donald Trump's assertion that talks are already under way.
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