The United States and Iran traded strikes on Thursday (May 28) in their most serious clash since an April ceasefire began, rattling ongoing efforts to negotiate an end to the war and open the vital Strait of Hormuz.
The latest exchange also drew in U.S. ally Kuwait, which said it was responding to incoming fire, and came as violence on the war’s Lebanese front escalated sharply after Israel declared much of the country’s south a combat zone.
Iranian forces fired at four ships attempting to cross Hormuz, according to state broadcaster IRIB. Iran has blockaded the strait since the start of the war in late February.
U.S. forces struck a ground control station in the southern port area of Bandar Abbas, a U.S. official said, prompting Iran to then target “the American air base that served as the source of the attack”, according to IRIB, citing the country’s Revolutionary Guards.
-AFP
