June 11: Iran strikes US targets and closes Strait of Hormuz, as Trump backs down again

By Press TV Website Staff

Iran’s armed forces carried out coordinated retaliatory operations against US military bases and assets across the region, including a missile strike on the al-Azraq air base in Jordan and attacks on the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.

The operation came alongside a series of warnings from Iranian military commanders, who said any further US threats against national security or energy infrastructure would trigger a decisive and crushing response.

Iran's top military command center also announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz to all vessels until further notice, as tensions escalated following continued US aggression.

Iranian authorities also reaffirmed the country's readiness to respond to ongoing violations of international law by the US and Israel.

Key developments on day 104 of the war, the 64th day of the ceasefire:

• Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Iranian Army carried out a series of coordinated retaliatory military operations targeting US military installations across the region, including the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
• The IRGC said it fired 12 ballistic missiles at the US-operated al-Azraq air base in Jordan in response to the latest act of aggression in southern Iran.
• The Iranian authority controlling the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf said the strategic waterway is closed until further notice. It came after the top military command center announced the closure of the strategic waterway.
• The commander of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Major General Ali Abdollahi, warned the US over a "false and futile cycle" of lies and contradictions in its behavior, after Washington first threatened to strike Iranian energy infrastructure and then claimed negotiations had been approved.
• General Abdollahi said Iranian Armed Forces stand fully ready and vigilant to give a “painful and regret-inducing” response to any threat against the country's national security, independence and territorial integrity.
• General Abdollahi warned that either all nations will have access to oil and gas exports from the region, or no one will, following US threats against Iranian energy infrastructure.
• The commander of the IRGC aerospace force, Brigadier General Seyyed Majid Mousavi, issued a warning to the US, vowing to turn the region into "hell" if Washington continues to threaten the security of the Strait of Hormuz.
• Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned the US against a new round of aggression or targeting energy infrastructure, saying Iran’s retaliatory operations have already left Donald Trump bewildered.
• Gholamhossein Mohseni Eje'I, the Iranian judiciary chief, said the “unshakeable and steadfast” people of Iran are firmly resolved to defend the country’s integrity and have no fear of the US president and his threats.
• Brigadier General Reza Talaei-Nik, the spokesman for Iran's defense ministry, said the country's military is fully prepared to confront threats from the United States and Israel and will not retreat in the face of pressure from aggressors.
• Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi, senior Iranian military spokesman, said the Islamic Republic is now militarily stronger than it was at the outset of the latest US-Israeli-imposed war, dismissing enemy claims about weakened air defenses and depleted missile capabilities.
• Iran strongly condemned the “illegal and criminal” aerial assaults by the terrorist American regime, saying they violate international law and the fragile ceasefire that ended the US-Israeli aggression against the Islamic Republic.
• Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iranian ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, reiterated the country’s resolve to defend itself against the US and the Israeli regime amid escalating attacks and threats by the aggressors.
• Ebrahim Azizi, head of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, warned that any US attack on Iranian territory – "not just on Kharg Island but anywhere in the country" – would receive a response that "will be recorded in history," as Trump threatened to seize Iran's main oil export hub earlier during the day.
• Azizi said the powerful retaliatory missile and drone operations carried out by the Iranian armed forces in the course of the US-Israeli wars of aggression against the Islamic Republic have bewildered Trump.
• Iran announced it will pursue legal action in domestic and international judicial bodies following a US airstrike that destroyed two drinking water reservoirs in the southern province of Hormozgan.
• The New York Times said that recent US strikes on a water facility in southern Iran could constitute war crimes, as targeting civilian infrastructure is prohibited under international law.
• Peyman Saadat, the Iranian ambassador to Japan, predicted further rising oil prices, saying the United States and the Israeli regime keep taking the global economy hostage by their acts of aggression against the Islamic Republic.
• The Yemeni foreign ministry vehemently censured recurrent US acts of aggression against Iran, emphasizing that such vicious acts pose a direct threat to international peace and security.
• Three Indian sailors who were reported missing were killed after the US military struck a tanker in the Sea of Oman earlier this week.
• Trump said he had "cancelled" the plan to continue attacks on Iran, claiming a breakthrough in ongoing negotiations to end the US-Israeli war on Iran.

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