WASHINGTON/TEHRAN: The fragile Middle East interim peace agreement is on the brink of total collapse after US warplanes targeted and struck 10 military facilities inside Iran on Sunday. The retaliatory strikes, directly ordered by US President Donald Trump, came in response to a suspected Iranian drone attack on a commercial oil tanker transporting two million barrels of crude oil through the strategic Strait of Hormuz. President Trump warned that any further provocative violations from Tehran would meet full-scale Western military action. Following the heavy aerial bombardments, air raid sirens wailed for a second consecutive time across Bahrain on Sunday, according to the national Interior Ministry.
In an immediate counter-response, Iran announced that it had executed coordinated missile and drone strikes targeting the high-profile US Fifth Fleet naval headquarters in Bahrain alongside another major strategic base in Kuwait. Confirming the emergency scenario on X, the Bahraini Interior Ministry urged citizens and residents to remain calm and head to the nearest secure bomb shelters immediately. Meanwhile, Brigadier General Ibrahim Al Fiqar, the official military spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam Al Anbiya Central Headquarters—the unified operational command overseeing both the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the regular Iranian army—announced that Tehran would unilaterally assume control over regulating all maritime traffic moving through the Strait of Hormuz.
General Al Fiqar explicitly declared through social media communications that Washington’s newest military maneuvers directly violated Article 1 of the recently signed Islamabad Understanding pact, threatening a permanent termination of all diplomatic tracks. The Iranian command detailed that US enemy forces originally launched morning raids against five distinct Iranian coastal locations under the pretext of intercepting a rogue merchant vessel. In direct retaliation, Iranian defense forces launched synchronized strikes disabling elements across eight total US military positions, including infrastructure at Kuwait’s Ali Al Salem Air Base. The IRGC reiterated that future entries by unauthorized or non-compliant commercial vessels into the Persian Gulf region would be dealt with far more aggressively than before.
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Any new aggression, regardless of its pretext or the scale of its objectives, will be met with a crushing response.
Violating the ceasefire constitutes a breach of Article 1 of the Islamabad Understanding and will lead to a complete halt of all tracks.
— العميد إbراهيم ذو الفقاري (@Ibrahim_alFiqar) June 28, 2026
Under the Islamabad understanding, Iran will regulate maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
Violent vessels will be dealt with more firmly than before.
— العميد إbراهيم ذو الفقاري (@Ibrahim_alFiqar) June 28, 2026
ലഘു വിവരണം
ഹോർമുസ് കടലിടുക്കിൽ എണ്ണക്കപ്പലിന് നേരെ ഉണ്ടായ ഡ്രോൺ ആക്രമണത്തിന് തിരിച്ചടിയായി യുഎസ് സേന ഇറാനിലെ 10 സൈനിക കേന്ദ്രങ്ങളിൽ ബോംബാക്രമണം നടത്തി. ഇതോടെ ഇസ്ലാമാബാദ് ധാരണാപത്രത്തിലൂടെ രൂപപ്പെട്ട താൽക്കാലിക സമാധാന കരാർ തകർച്ചയുടെ വക്കിലാണ്. ഇതിന് പ്രതികാരമായി ബഹ്റൈനിലെ യുഎസ് ഫിഫ്ത് ഫ്ലീറ്റ് താവളത്തിനും കുവൈറ്റിലെ വ്യോമതാവളത്തിനും നേരെ ഇറാൻ മിസൈൽ-ഡ്രോൺ ആക്രമണങ്ങൾ നടത്തി. വരും ദിവസങ്ങളിൽ ഹോർമുസ് കടലിടുക്കിലെ കപ്പൽ ഗതാഗതം തങ്ങൾ നിയന്ത്രിക്കുമെന്നും ലംഘനമുണ്ടായാൽ ശക്തമായി നേരിടുമെന്നും ഇറാൻ വക്താവ് ഇബ്രാഹിം അൽ ഫിക്കർ മുന്നറിയിപ്പ് നൽകി.
(With inputs from GulfNews)
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