The terrorist regime in Iran sent both drone and missiles toward Bahrain and Kuwait overnight, and they did it in response to President Trump’s second round of retaliatory strikes.
Here’s the news:
Iran launched drone and missile attacks Sunday targeting Bahrain and Kuwait in response to U.S. airstrikes that hit the Islamic Republic, and threatened a “complete halt” in negotiations to end the war if Washington continues its attacks.
Efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz without Iran’s direct oversight sparked the crossfire now gripping the region and have imperiled negotiations for a lasting ceasefire. A multinational maritime body overseen by the U.S. Navy said Saturday that it would expand a route near Oman for both inbound and outbound traffic, setting up a new flashpoint with Tehran.
The global community has long considered the strait an international passageway, despite its sitting in Iran and Oman’s territorial waters. In recent days, Iran has twice attacked vessels going through a route on the Omani side of the strait backed by a United Nations agency.
Iran insists that it alone must govern the strait, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf that once carried a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reiterated the claim during a state visit to Iraq on Sunday.
“Any interference in this matter, any attempt to establish new or separate arrangements from those currently being carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran, will only lead to further complications, delay the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and increase the level of tension, just as over the past two nights we witnessed incidents in the Strait of Hormuz that led to an increase in tension and confrontation,” he said in Baghdad.
The AP says “Efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz without Iran’s direct oversight sparked the crossfire.” However isn’t it the case that Iran violating their agreement to keep the strait free and open, and attacking ships within strait, is what sparked the escalation of US military force?
There was little damage done by the Iranian attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait, so my guess is that President Trump will ignore that and hope everything returns to the ceasefire agreement. But as I’ve continually said, these terrorist will never learn and I’m ready for them to learn a lesson of a lifetime from the US military.