In scenes reminiscent of the first days of the US-Iran war, Iran unleashed waves of major, simultaneous missile and drone attacks across the Gulf on Sunday morning, targeting Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and Oman, following another night of US airstrikes across southern Iran, in response to a new Iranian military strike on a ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
Following the attacks, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) warned that “the time for restraint is over” and that new US attacks "will result in even more devastating responses," while insisting it alone must control the navigation through the Strait of Hormuz and declaring it closed for navigation on Sunday.
“The era of one-sided deals is OVER,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s parliament and a main negotiator, proclaimed in a statement on X, adding that “we told you: keep your word or pay the price. Reality is knocking,” in reference to Iran's claim of sovereignty and control of the Strait of Hormuz and the US-Iran framework deal to end the war.
As the parallel war of words rages on, US president Donald Trump told NBC on Sunday that “we bombed the hell out of them last night,” just days after he said he thought that the US-Iran agreed framework deal to end the war was over.
