Key events41m agoOpening summaryOur full report of the all the latest is here:A US strike hit a wheat storage silo in Iran’s Hoveyzeh early on Wednesday, according to Iranian state broadcaster IRIB.Opening summaryHello and welcome to our live coverage of events in the Middle East, with retaliatory strikes between the US and Iran continuing for a fourth day straight, despite an interim agreement intended to provide space to negotiate a lasting peace.Instead, the US has now reimposed a naval blockade on the strait of Hormuz and Donald Trump has said that US strikes will target Iran’s power plants and bridges next week if Tehran does not agree to a deal.Iran has responded by attacking US allies in the region.Here is the latest:
In an interview with Fox News Trump said US attacks would continue to increase in severity until a deal was reached. “We’re going to knock out all their power plants,” he said, “We’re going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate.”
US Central Command (Centcom) said the latest strikes were aimed at “degrading Iranian capabilities used to attack commercial shipping” in the strait, the key shipping channel for Gulf oil and gas where Tehran has repeatedly carried out attacks on civilian vessels.
