Iran’s foreign minister has warned that any challenge to Iranian oversight of the Strait of Hormuz will “increase tensions”.
In a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart on Sunday, Abbas Araghchi insisted that bringing maritime traffic back to pre-war levels in Hormuz lies solely with Tehran.
His comments come as Iran and the US continued to trade attacks in the Gulf as each accused the other of violating an interim deal signed less than two weeks ago to end their four month war.
On Sunday, Iran said its naval and aerospace forces carried out a joint missile and drone operation targeting US military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain, and warned further violations would receive a “crushing response”. Earlier, the US military said it had struck Iran for the second day after a tanker was hit in the Strait of Hormuz.
In a warning on Truth Social on Saturday evening, Donald Trump said that Iran would “no longer exist” if Tehran kept breaking the ceasefire. Trump’s threat came after the US launched strikes on Saturday on Iranian missile and drone locations and radar sites “for violating the ceasefire agreement, AGAIN”.
US Central Command said the strikes were launched “in direct response to continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping”.
