Iran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait after US airstrikes and threatens a ‘complete halt’ to peace talks.

Efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz without direct Iranian supervision have fueled the simmering conflict that has now gripped the region and jeopardized talks on a permanent ceasefire. An international maritime organization overseen by the US Navy said on Saturday it would expand the route near Oman to both inbound and outbound traffic, setting up a new flashpoint with Tehran.

The world community has long considered this problem as an international movement, despite its presence in Iran and Oman waters. In recent days, Iran has twice attacked ships passing through the channel on the Omani side of the strait supported by the United Nations.

Iran insists that it alone must control the strait, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf that once carried a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reiterated this claim during his visit to Iraq on Sunday.

“Any interference in this matter, or any attempt to establish new or different programs from those carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran, will lead to more problems, delays in the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and increase the level of tension, just as two nights ago we saw incidents in the Strait of Hormuz that led to conflict,” said Bad.

The United States and Iran are still at loggerheads over the terms of an interim peace deal, including provisions for transit through the strait, lifting US sanctions and sanctions and dealing with the future of Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile. Under a memorandum of understanding signed earlier this month, the US and Iran have 60 days to release information.

Strikes threaten to derail the deal before it is finalized. The ongoing war in Lebanon, where an Israeli soldier was killed in Hezbollah fire earlier Sunday, also threatened the deal.

The strikes are targeting Gulf states that host US forces

Kuwait’s military said its air defense intercepted incoming Iranian drones and missiles on Sunday morning, shortly after the US attack.

Kuwait, which hosts a major US military base, said it had found and intercepted two ballistic missiles and there were no reports of injuries or damage.

Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said the Iranian strikes damaged a building near the international airport and that no one was killed. The department released photos of the 8-story building, the top floor of which was destroyed, full of debris and its windows blown out.

Bahrain is home to the US Navy’s 5th Fleet, where it was attacked several times during the war. The building that was destroyed on Sunday was not near the headquarters of these vehicles, in the city of Manama.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bahrain condemned what it called “a dangerous escalation that shows that what Tehran is doing is not a passing act, or an isolated incident, but a deliberate and systematic pattern of repeated attacks.”

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed responsibility for both attacks.

Trump accuses Iran of violating the moratorium

The latest US strikes come after the US and Iran traded strikes earlier in the weekend.

The U.S. military’s Central Command said it attacked Iran’s military “surveillance infrastructure, communications systems, air defense facilities, air defense facilities and minesweeping capabilities” on Sunday, following the attack on a ship at sea early Saturday. That vessel, the Panamanian tanker Kiku, was carrying crude oil for the state-owned energy company of Qatar, a key intermediary between Iran and the US.

In a social media post, Trump said the US “hit Iranian missile and drone storage sites, and coastal radar sites, in violation of the Ceasefire Agreement, AGAIN!” He warned of a point where the US may not be able to consider it “and will be forced to finish the job militarily.”

“If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will cease to exist!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The incident follows a similar incident a few days ago, when an Iranian jet hit a merchant ship off the coast of Oman on Thursday, and the US military retaliated with strikes.

Conflicts continue in Lebanon

Iran has always said that the ceasefire must include a ceasefire in Lebanon, where Israel has been fighting the Iran-based terrorist group Hezbollah. Days after the US and Israel launched a war against Iran in February, Hezbollah began shelling Israel in cooperation with its Iranian allies. Israel responded with an offensive that took over much of southern Lebanon and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Israel has said it will not withdraw its troops until Hezbollah is disarmed.

Last week, Israel and the Lebanese government signed a framework agreement to end the conflict. But their agreement did not include Hezbollah or Iran. Hezbollah has criticized the deal and dismissed calls for a disarmament.

On Sunday, Araghchi also said during his visit to Iraq that the US must force Israel to stop the attack and withdraw. Israel occupies 600 square kilometers (231 square miles) of southern Lebanon, which it says it needs as a security buffer to stop Hezbollah attacks.

But the endless conflict continued between Israel and Hezbollah.

The leader of the Iran-backed group said on Saturday that Hezbollah will continue fighting until Israel withdraws from Lebanon, adding that the group considers the Israeli-Lebanon agreement signed on Friday “as nothing.”

The frequency of Israeli strikes in Lebanon has dropped significantly since the Iran-US deal was signed in mid-June, but strikes still continue, killing at least one person on Saturday, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health. Two separate Israeli strikes hit southern Lebanon on Sunday morning – one in the city of Taybeh and the other in the Nabatiyeh area, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency. There was no immediate word on injuries.

Overnight, Hezbollah terrorists killed an Israeli soldier in the village of Deir Siryan in southern Lebanon, according to the Israeli military. Hezbollah did not comment on the incident.