US carries out new strikes on Iran military site
The US military said it targeted a military site in Bandar Abbas - a strategic port city - and shot down four Iranian attack drones.

The US military said it targeted a military site in Bandar Abbas - a strategic port city - and shot down four Iranian attack drones.
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The US carried out airstrikes on an Iranian military site and imposed new sanctions to prevent Tehran from profiting from vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Hours earlier, President Donald Trump asserted that no one nation would control the vital waterway, highlighting a key obstacle in resolving the conflict. Bloomberg's Jill Disis reports. (Source: Bloomberg)
US president sends contradictory messages about ending war at cabinet meeting with call to bolster Abraham accordsDonald Trump has accused Iran of trying to stall on making a peace agreement by running down the clock before November’s US midterm elections in the hope of getting better terms.“They thought they were going to outwait me, you know, ‘we’ll outwait him, he’s got the midterms’,” the US president told a meeting of his cabinet at the White House on Wednesday. Continue reading...
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The US military carried out new strikes in Iran Wednesday, targeting a military site that threatened American troops and commercial shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Reuters. The outlet, citing a US official, also reported that drones launched from Iran were intercepted by American forces. The US military carried out new strikes...
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