NewzDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian semiofficial media say Iran is firing drones and missiles in response to US strikes. The United States military said Tuesday that it struck new targets in Iran as hostilities flared after a month without military action.Iran fired missiles and drones in response, Iranian semiofficial media said. The Fars and Tasnim news agencies, seen as close to Iran’s security forces, reported late Tuesday that Iran had launched such operations.Here’s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the wider Middle East.
Full coverage can be found here.US strikes targets in IranU.S. Central Command said the new strikes come after Tehran tried to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and U.S. President Donald Trump warned in a social media post that if Iran retaliates, “they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings.”On Sunday, the U.S.
military said it struck rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded by launching missiles at U.S. sites in Jordan, which were intercepted, while the United Arab Emirates said it stopped an Iranian drone over its waters.After the U.S.
28, Iran established a chokehold on the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s traded oil passed in peacetime, slowing ship traffic to a trickle. That has roiled the global economy, raising prices worldwide for energy and other goods.While Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has long favored a negotiated end to the war, the most powerful force in Iran remains the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which is pressing for greater concessions from the U.S., including Iranian control over the strait and financial compensation for the war. Those conditions would likely be unacceptable to Washington.US renews regionwide Mideast travel alertThe State Department renewed a regionwide travel alert for the Middle East as hostilities between the U.S.
and Iran resumed.“Due to tensions in the Middle East, the security environment remains complex with the potential for unforeseen escalation,” the department said in a blanket advisory covering all countries in the region. The language is similar to that used in previous warnings that came before a lull in combat activities and said Americans in the Mideast should exercise heightened vigilance and be aware of potential travel disruptions.Iran is working w… Iranian semiofficial media said Tuesday the country has begun firing missiles and drones in response to U.S.
strikes, as hostilities flare again after a month without military action. military said it was striking new targets in Iran over recent attempted attacks against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The renewed fighting, which the U.S.
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