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Iran live updates: Kuwait and Bahrain condemn 'heinous' Iranian aerial strikes

 

Iran live updates: Kuwait and Bahrain condemn 'heinous' Iranian aerial strikes

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.

Delegations from the United States and Iran meet last weekend at the Bürgenstock resort in Switzerland, where they entered negotiations aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed last week by both countries.

Iran claims sole responsibility for restoring Strait of Hormuz shipping traffic

Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said on Sunday that only Iran is responsible for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and restoring shipping traffic to pre-war levels.

"These arrangements are being adopted and implemented, and responsibility for them rests with the Islamic Republic of Iran," Araghchi said during a news conference alongside his Iraqi counterpart on Sunday. "No other body or country bears any responsibility in this regard."

The minister's comments followed U.S. strikes on Iranian targets, which came after officials in Washington accused Tehran of targeting a tanker in the strait. Both the United States and Iran have claimed in recent weeks to have control over the strait.

Bahrain, Kuwait condemn Iranian aerial attacks following US strikes on Iran

Kuwait and Bahrain came under attack from "hostile" Iranian missiles and drones early on Sunday, the two countries said following fresh U.S. strikes against Iran.

Kuwaiti air defenses are currently responding to hostile missile and drone attacks," Kuwait’s army wrote on social media. "Everyone is urged to adhere to the safety and security instructions issued by the relevant authorities."

It provided no further details on the location of the attacks or any damage caused.

The country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement expressing its "condemnation and strongest denunciation of the repeated heinous Iranian aggressions against the State of Kuwait" and called the attack a "flagrant violation of its sovereignty."

In Bahrain, the Defence Force said its air defence systems had intercepted and destroyed a number of Iranian missile and drone attacks targeting civilians in the kingdom.Air-raid sirens went off twice according to the interior ministry, calling on residents to "remain calm and head to the nearest safe place."

Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement later condemning what it called "a dangerous escalation that reveals that what Tehran is doing is not a passing act, nor an isolated incident, but rather a deliberate approach and a systematic pattern of repeated aggression against the sovereignty of the kingdom, and the security of its citizens and residents."

-ABC News’ Ayat Al-Tawy and Rashid Haddou

Iran fires missiles and drones at Kuwait and Bahrain: US official

Iran has launched multiple missiles and drones towards neighboring countries, including Bahrain and Kuwait, a U.S. official told ABC News.

The official said that the situation is still unfolding, but that at this time there are no reported U.S. casualties or major impacts or damage to U.S. locations.

The attacks come after Iranian officials said hours ago that it would retaliate and target U.S. bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in response to the U.S. retaliatory strikes earlier Saturday. U.S. officials said those strikes were prompted by Iran’s earlier drone strike on an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.

-ABC News' Luis Martinez

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Trump threatens to 'militarily complete the job' in Iran if attacks don’t stop

President Donald Trump responded to the most recent Iranian attack, which led the U.S. to retaliate for the second time since the memorandum of understanding was signed, by threatening to “militarily complete the job” if Iran doesn’t stop striking.

He said that Iran violated the ceasefire “again.” He had previously said that Iran’s first strike was a “foolish violation of the ceasefire agreement.”

"United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN! It is very possible that they will never learn!” Trump wrote in a post on social media Saturday evening.”

“There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started,” he wrote, adding, "If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!"

-ABC News' Isabella Murray

US conducts additional strikes against multiple Iranian targets: CENTCOM

U.S. Central Command announced Saturday evening that it has conducted additional strikes in Iran following an Iranian drone attack earlier in the day.

The strikes "targeted Iranian military surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and minelayer capabilities," according to CENTCOM.

CENTCOM said the strikes were "in direct response to continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping."

CENTCOM said an Iranian attack drone struck the M/T Kiku, a Panama-flagged oil tanker, Saturday at 4:30 a.m. ET.

-ABC News' Cindy Smith

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