U.S. forces conducted airstrikes against “multiple targets” in Iran Saturday following attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
Military aircraft targeted “Iranian military surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and minelayer capabilities,” U.S. Central Command said.
CENTCOM said Iran launched a one-way attack drone at a Panama-flagged tanker traveling near the Strait of Hormuz at 4:30 a.m. ET Saturday. The tanker was carrying more than two million barrels of crude oil, according to CENTCOM.
Iran did not publicly comment about the attack on the tanker.
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After the U.S. struck Iran, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said its navy and air forces launched ballistic missiles and drones at the Ali Al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait, and the Fifth Fleet Naval Base in Bahrain, which are both U.S. military sites, state-run media reported early Sunday local time.
“Violating the ceasefire is contrary to Clause 1 of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding and will result in the complete halt of all diplomatic processes,” the IGRC said.
Both sides agreed to the memorandum of understanding in June, which included a 60-day ceasefire and opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran, US accuse each other of ceasefire violations
President Donald Trump, in a social media post about the U.S. attacks, accused Iran of violating the ceasefire agreement.
“It is very possible that they will never learn! 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 said. “If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!”
Earlier on Saturday, Iran said it struck several U.S. military targets in response to a U.S. attack on Iranian missile and drone facilities on Friday.
The statement didn’t say exactly which targets were hit in this case. Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry, though, condemned “the targeting of its territory at dawn today, Saturday, June 27, 2026, by a number of Iranian drones, in a blatant violation of its sovereignty, a flagrant threat to the security of citizens and residents, and a blatant breach of international norms and conventions that prohibit targeting civilian objects and terrorizing innocent people.”
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said the United States’ Friday attacks violated the memorandum of understanding. U.S. Central Command said these strikes were in retaliation for an Iranian attack on a Singapore-flagged ship exiting the Strait of Hormuz along the coast of Oman.
“Iran signed a ceasefire agreement. We have honored it,” Vice President JD Vance said on Friday. “If they have disagreements about how the MOU is being applied, they can pick up the phone. But violence will be met with violence.”
Ebrahim Azizi, head of the national security commission of the parliament in Iran, said “the failed U.S. President has shown he has no commitment to the principles of negotiation or a ceasefire.”
“This reckless violation of the ceasefire will, as always, lead to retreat and regret on their part,” he said.
Lebanon, Israel sign agreement
Another part of the memorandum signed by the U.S. and Iran includes the termination of military operations in Lebanon.
On Friday, the State Department announced Israel and Lebanon came to a framework agreement, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio said “builds a realistic path out of endless conflict.”
Included in the agreement is Israel’s withdrawal from two areas in Lebanon, as well as the U.S. facilitating a “Military Coordination Group for Lebanon” to implement the framework, and committing $100 million in humanitarian assistance. It also “establishes a clear and structured process” for disarming Hezbollah, which operates out of Lebanon, Rubio said.
The Associated Press wrote the framework agreement was signed by Yechiel Leiter, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, and Nada Hamadeh Moawad, the Lebanese ambassador to the U.S., in front of Rubio in Washington.
“Our language is we want to embrace Lebanon,” Leiter was quoted by the AP as saying. “Our language is we want to get in our car in Tel Aviv and take a drive up to Beirut, and we want Beirut to come down and take a drive to Tel Aviv. That’s where we’re going. That’s where we want to go.”
This will depend on Hezbollah being disarmed, Leiter said.
Moawad, meanwhile, called the framework “a first step on the road to restoring Lebanese sovereignty and territorial integrity, securing a permanent and final cessation of hostilities, enabling our people to go back to their land and allowing all Lebanese to live in peace, security and prosperity.”
However, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem rejected the deal Saturday, according to Reuters, as he said it is a surrender to Israel. Qassem said in a statement the agreement is “null and void,” adding that Hezbollah will not stop its armed resistance.
“We did not leave the battlefield in the most difficult circumstances, and we will not leave it,” Qassem said.
Since March, more than 4,000 people in Lebanon have been killed in Israeli strikes, the AP wrote, and at least 37 soldiers from Israel were killed during the fighting. In addition, more than one million Lebanese citizens were displaced, Reuters said.
Just one day after the framework was signed, Lebanon’s state news agency reported an Israeli drone strike on Nabatieh al-Fawqa. The Israeli military said to Reuters the attack targeted an individual who posed a threat, though did not provide evidence or any other details.
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