U.S. Central Command aircraft struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites on Friday after Iran launched one-way attack drones at commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, an act the White House called a direct violation of a ceasefire agreement signed barely more than a week earlier. Iran then claimed it retaliated by hitting U.S. military positions in the region and warned that any future American strikes would draw “a broader response.”
The exchange of fire marks the first open military confrontation between Washington and Tehran since President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, a framework aimed at building a permanent peace deal to end hostilities between the two nations. That the ink was barely dry when Iran’s IRGC struck a commercial vessel tells you everything about how seriously Tehran’s military establishment treats its own government’s commitments.
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