Wars 2026 02/28 Israel-Iran War 3.0

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Iran fires warning missiles at US destroyers

Iran’s military said on Friday it had fired ‘warning missiles’ at two US destroyers in the Gulf of Oman, forcing the vessels to leave the area, according to state media.

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Iran fires warning missiles at US destroyers
Agence France-Presse . Tehran, Iran 06 June, 2026, 01:20

Iran’s military said on Friday it had fired ‘warning missiles’ at two US destroyers in the Gulf of Oman, forcing the vessels to leave the area, according to state media.

It said the two destroyers left the Gulf of Oman ‘following the firing of warning missiles’ by Iranian forces, according to a statement carried by state news agency IRNA.

The operation was in response to ‘maritime misconduct and harassment, as well as the hijacking of commercial vessels and oil tankers by the terrorist naval forces of the United States,’ the military said.

The US military’s Central Command was quick to deny that the incident had taken place.

‘Iranian forces did NOT attack or fire at US Navy warships. Doing so would be a gross violation of the ceasefire.’

It said its forces ‘continue to operate freely in regional waters’ and were enforcing the US counterblockade on Iranian ports.

It is the latest episode to shake a ceasefire announced on April 8 that has largely halted hostilities between Iran and the United States as well as Israel following the outbreak of war on February 28, when allied forces targeted Iran.

Efforts to end the war through direct and mediated talks have so far failed.

US secretary of state Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that Washington was ‘no longer conducting sustained strikes’ against Iran as Operation Epic Fury, the US name for its attacks on Iran, was over.

He added that the United States had destroyed what Iran ‘had left of an air force’ in addition to ‘wiping out their entire conventional navy’.

Iran has, since the onset of the war, imposed a naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic waterway connecting the Gulf with the Indian Ocean.

The United States later set up its own blockade of Iranian ports. In peacetime, a fifth of the world’s oil used to pass through the chokepoint.​

 

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Iran targets Bahrain, Kuwait after US strikes

Iran launched fresh aerial attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait early Saturday, after the United States said it had struck the Islamic republic.

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Iran targets Bahrain, Kuwait after US strikes
Tehran denounces IAEA’s ‘political pressure’

Agence France-Presse . Kuwait City, Kuwait 07 June, 2026, 00:14

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Iran launched fresh aerial attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait early Saturday, after the United States said it had struck the Islamic republic.

The tiny island kingdom of Bahrain, home to the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet, denounced the attacks against its territory and neighbouring Kuwait.

Manama said the two Gulf countries intercepted seven missiles fired by Iran and described the attacks, the second against both nations since Wednesday, as ‘blatant aggression’ and ‘a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of both countries’.

Kuwait also condemned the attacks, saying they were a ‘direct threat’ to the ‘lives of citizens and residents’ and represented a ‘dangerous escalation... at a time when the international community is making unremitting efforts to stop combat operations’.

Gulf neighbours Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar also condemned the attacks on Kuwait and Bahrain.

Meanwhile, Iran on the same day denounced as a ‘tool of political pressure’ a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency expressing concern over its lack of access to Iranian nuclear sites.

In Bahrain’s capital Manama, an AFP journalist reported hearing three explosions and the interior ministry announced air raid sirens had sounded across the country.

Later, Bahrain’s military said in a statement it had been ‘able to intercept and destroy three missiles and a number of drones’.

In Kuwait, an AFP journalist reported hearing repeated blasts near the country’s international airport, which had been struck on Wednesday in an attack blamed on Iran that killed one person.

‘We woke up to a huge explosion. The explosions were very loud,’ Reem, an Egyptian mother of two, told AFP, referring to the Saturday attacks.

‘My children were terrified, and I couldn’t calm them down,’ she added.

Kuwait’s military said it had ‘engaged seven hostile ballistic missiles this morning within Kuwaiti airspace’.

It added that some interceptions over residential areas caused falling debris which ‘resulted in material damage but no casualties’.

In the hours after the barrages, Kuwait’s aviation authority announced the resumption of air traffic, saying 11 Kuwait Airways and Jazeera Airways flights had been diverted during an air space closure due to the Iranian attack.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they had targeted ‘enemy bases’ with missiles after the US military said it struck radar sites in Iran and downed drones headed towards the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

US central command said six of the missiles fired towards Kuwait and Bahrain were downed, while the seventh ‘did not reach its intended target’.

Tehran was engaged in discussions with Washington about its nuclear programme when the United States and Israel attacked it on February 28, sparking war in the region.

Israel had previously struck Iran in June 2025, also while Washington and Tehran were engaged in nuclear negotiations, with Washington joining with later strikes before a ceasefire was declared.

During both conflicts, Iranian nuclear sites were bombed repeatedly.

‘If the agency wants to be part of a diplomatic solution, it must refrain from turning a technical report into a tool of political pressure,’ deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi wrote on X.

In a confidential report seen by AFP on Thursday, the IAEA stated that the lack of access to nuclear sites in Iran constitutes a ‘proliferation concern’.

The IAEA has never condemned the Israeli-American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.

Gharibabadi on Saturday said the Israeli-American strikes are ‘not only a violation of Iran’s sovereignty’, but also ‘a direct blow to nuclear safety’.

‘One cannot bomb safeguarded facilities, destroy the access and safety necessary for inspections, and then use the consequences of that very attack as a grievance against Iran,’ he argued.​