The US and Iran traded strikes on Thursday for the second day running as Washington and Tehran battled over the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The vital oil shipping corridor is a flashpoint in the Middle East war, with Tehran insisting on control of the strait despite it being open to free passage before the US-Israeli attacks in February.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. After the foes traded fire on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said the ceasefire with Iran was “over”, but left the door open to more talks and added any strikes would end quickly. US forces said the latest attacks against Iran were aimed at “their ability to threaten the freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz”, citing recent strikes against commerical ships the waterway. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said they had struck US military bases in Bahrain and Kuwait on Thursday in response to fresh American strikes. An AFP journalist heard blasts in Bahrain’s capital Manama and Kuwait reported intercepting “hostile missile and drone attacks”. American strikes hit a railway bridge in Iran’s northeast, according to several official media, and the official IRNA news agency reported strikes on a military base in coastal Bushehr, which hosts the nation’s only civilian nuclear power plant. The US Central Command said later they had struck approximately 90 military targets. Earlier, warplanes were heard over Iran’s Kish Island and explosions rocked the port cities of Bandar Abbas, Konarak and Chabahar, part of which lost electricity, IRNA reported.