The exchange of skirmishes between Iran and the United States is becoming a constant during the fragile ceasefire currently governing the conflict. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) claimed this Wednesday that it attacked a U.S. ship in response to a previous offensive by the North American country against an Iranian tanker near the Strait of Hormuz, in a new offensive round that both parties accuse each other of initiating. Meanwhile, Kuwait was forced to suspend flights after its international airport was targeted by Iranian reprisals, causing injuries and damage.
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“Hostile drones attacked Terminal 1 of Kuwait International Airport, causing significant material damage to the terminal and injuries to several people who received medical attention,” reported the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense spokesman, Colonel Saud al Atwan, in a statement this Wednesday.
Regarding the exchange of attacks in the important maritime route, Iran claims that the U.S. attacked an Iranian tanker “with an aerial projectile, damaging the engine room,” the IRGC said in a statement picked up by the Tasnim agency, linked to the elite military corps. Hours earlier, the U.S. Central Command (Centcom) had already reported that it had fired a missile at the engine room of an unladen tanker flying the flag of Botswana, which was sailing towards Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil port, intending to break the maritime blockade of the strait imposed by the U.S. on Iranian oil, after the vessel ignored “repeated warnings.”
“In response (…), the Panaya ship, belonging to the American Zionist enemy, was attacked with naval missiles,” added the Iranian authorities.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard also denounced a U.S. attack on one of its communication towers, located on Qeshm Island, in an offensive confirmed by Centcom. The U.S. military command said it attacked this military ground control station after Iran launched ballistic missiles towards neighboring countries, including Kuwait and Bahrain, none of which then reached their targets.
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The IRGC, for its part, stated that it launched missile and drone attacks against an airbase and U.S. helicopters “located in a country in the region,” as well as against the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, located in Bahrain, in response to the attack on the Qeshm communication tower.
Centcom assured on X that neither the airbase nor the headquarters of its Fifth Fleet were hit.
The new attacks come after U.S. President Donald Trump denied on social media that negotiations with Iran were suspended, as Iranian media had claimed.
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