The U.S. military launched a second round of airstrikes Saturday targeting Iran at President\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0direction as Tehran hit both Bahrain and Kuwait, underscoring rising tensions that threaten\u00a0the interim deal between the two nations\u00a0to stop the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The attack on Kuwait early Sunday was the first since the two sides signed a deal that aimed to halt fighting, and came as a multinational maritime body overseen by the U.S. Navy said Saturday that it would expand a route near Oman in the strait to allow for both inbound and outbound traffic \u2014 likely setting up a new flashpoint with Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The U.S. military\u2019s Central Command said it struck Iranian military \u201csurveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities and minelayer capabilities\u201d following an attack on a ship at sea early Saturday morning. That ship, the Panamanian-flagged tanker Kiku, carried crude oil for the state-run energy company of Qatar, a key negotiator between Iran and the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a social media post, Trump said the U.S. had \u201cstruck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN!\u201d He warned of a point where the U.S. may no longer be able to be reasonable \u201cand will be forced to militarily complete the job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The U.S. military launched a second round of airstrikes Saturday targeting Iran at President\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0direction as Tehran hit both Bahrain and Kuwait, underscoring rising tensions that threaten\u00a0the interim deal between the two nations\u00a0to stop the war. The attack on Kuwait early Sunday was the first since the two sides signed a deal that aimed to halt fighting, and came as a multinational maritime body overseen by the U.S. Navy said Saturday that it would expand a route near Oman in the strait to allow for both inbound and outbound traffic \u2014 likely setting up a new flashpoint with Tehran. The U.S. military\u2019s Central Command said it struck Iranian military \u201csurveillance […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}