Iran and US exchange attacks after Trump refuses alleged deal with Tehran

Iran attacked an American air base in Kuwait during the early hours of Thursday (28), according to CETCOM (United States Central Command).

The offensive came after the US carried out an attack that Washington described as an Iranian drone operation near the Strait of Hormuz and US President Donald Trump rejected a supposed compromise agreement with Tehran.

The attacks, although limited, highlighted the fragility of negotiations to transform the tenuous ceasefire, in place since early April, into an agreement to end the three-month war, which has killed thousands of people, and reopen the vital sea route to the world.

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US Central Command said American forces shot down five Iranian attack drones and struck a ground control station in the port city of Bandar Abbas that was about to launch a sixth drone.

Kuwaiti forces then intercepted a ballistic missile fired towards the country, which hosts a large American base.

"These actions were calculated, purely defensive and intended to maintain the ceasefire," an American official told Reuters news agency, who requested anonymity to speak openly about the military operations.

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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had attacked the US base responsible for an early morning attack near Bandar Abbas airport and that any repeat would lead to a "more decisive response", Tasnim news agency reported.

Kuwait condemned the attack and demanded that Iran immediately halt what it called a serious escalation.

The violence, the second case this week, coincided with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, celebrated across the region, where several countries are involved in the conflict triggered by the US and Israeli attacks against Iran on February 28.

In Lebanon, which Iran says is an essential part of any overall agreement to end hostilities, Israel said it had begun attacking the infrastructure of Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Tire and carried out an attack in the capital, Beirut.

The Lebanese army said an attack killed one of its soldiers, while Israel, which has displaced hundreds of thousands of people with a deep advance into Lebanon in pursuit of Hezbollah, said air warning sirens sounded in its north.

Oil prices rebounded, with U.S. crude oil futures rising about 3% after a 5% drop on Wednesday, while stocks fell and the dollar rose on waning investor confidence in a peace deal that many see as key to reducing global inflation risks.

Control over the Strait of Hormuz
Trump has repeatedly stated that the end of the war is near, but told the press at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday (27) that he was still not satisfied with the negotiations and that the United States was not discussing sanctions relief, one of Tehran's demands.

He dismissed an Iranian state TV report about an unofficial draft agreement to restore shipping through the Strait of Hormuz to pre-war levels within a month, with Iran and the Gulf country Oman jointly managing the traffic.

The American president also said that no single country would have control over the waterway and appeared to threaten Oman, with which the US has had decades-old military and economic ties.

"No one is going to control (the strait)," Trump said. "These are international waters, and Oman will behave like any other country, or we will have to blow them up.

They understand this, everything will be fine."

Oman has not commented on the idea of joint control of the strait with Iran, with whom it claims to have discussed freedom of navigation.

Tehran expressed solidarity with Oman after what it called "threats from American officials."

Iran's Revolutionary Guard reasserted its control over the strait, saying it had intercepted two vessels and allowed 26 to pass in the last 24 hours.

Before the war, more than a hundred ships passed daily on average.

Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a letter to Parliament that Iran had emerged stronger from the war and urged lawmakers to preserve national unity, repair damage and confront hardship, inflation and corruption, according to state media.

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Tehran insisted that the United States release Iranian funds, said the deputy secretary of the Iranian National Security Council, Ali Bagheri Kani, according to a report by the Tasnim agency.

Iran also seeks an end to the American blockade of its ports and the lifting of sanctions, which the US Treasury Department announced on Wednesday (27) it had extended to include the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, created to manage passage through the strait.

Foreign vessels passed freely through the waterway before the war, under international legal guarantees.

Iranian state TV said the draft agreement also called for the withdrawal of American military forces from the vicinity, with additional discussions on the presence of American troops in the region.

The White House classified the report as a "complete fabrication". Tehran did not comment.

Iranian sources said the nuclear issue will be discussed in further negotiations over 60 days - something that may not be acceptable to some of Trump's closest supporters, who want Iran's nuclear program to be dismantled.

Iran says the program is for exclusively peaceful purposes.

"The bottom line is that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon," said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

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Source: CNN