US and Iran reach agreement to stop attacks and resume dialogue after military actions

Strait of Hormuz
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Iran and the United States have agreed to halt recent hostilities in the Gulf and resume negotiations on the dispute over the Strait of Hormuz, the website Axios reported on Sunday (28) - a move that could end the exchange of retaliatory attacks that threaten to derail a provisional peace agreement.
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Both sides plan to meet on Tuesday in Doha, Qatar, Axios reported, citing a senior US official. A White House official who declined to be identified confirmed the halt to the attacks to the Reuters news agency.
Iran launches missiles at American bases in Kuwait and Bahrain
A return to diplomacy would occur after several days of attacks and counterattacks, which began when an Iranian projectile hit a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday (25); Both the US and Iran accused each other of violating a provisional ceasefire agreed on June 17.
Iran launched missiles and drones at US military installations in Kuwait and Bahrain on Sunday morning, shortly after President Donald Trump threatened to eliminate the Iranian leadership if they did not comply with the agreement to end the conflict.
Israel attacks targets in Lebanon
Meanwhile, Israel said on Sunday that it had again attacked armed militants from the Hezbollah - a group supported by Iran - in Lebanon, destroying underground infrastructure used by the group in a village in the south of the country.
The action followed another attack on Saturday (27), carried out shortly after the most recent ceasefire agreement with Lebanon, signed on Friday to calm the fighting - a conflict that, according to Iran, needs to end for the broader agreement to be maintained.
The US military previously reported that it had attacked Iran again, hours after a tanker having been hit in the Strait of Hormuz - the world's most important energy transportation route, which Tehran kept largely closed for most of the conflict.
"There may come a time when we will no longer be able to act reasonably and will be forced to militarily complete the task we began so successfully," Trump said on social media, before the Axios report was released.
"If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will cease to exist!" he added.
The 14-point interim peace agreement aimed to stop the fighting - started by the US and Israel on February 28 - and reopen the strait while negotiations continued on issues such as Iran's nuclear program.
In a further sign of the fragility of the agreement, Iran canceled technical talks with the US that were scheduled for this Sunday, citing recent attacks on the country and failure to meet conditions of the Memorandum of Understanding; the information was given to state television by a member of the Office for the Preservation and Publication of the Works of the Supreme Leader of Iran.
"For example, one of the reasons is to check whether we have access to the unfrozen funds; if there is no access, then this condition has not been met," Mehdi Fazaeili said.
Drone footage shows fire and smoke rising after US strikes on Iran
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Exchange of accusations
A round of mediated negotiations, led by the vice president JD Vance and the speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, was held in Switzerland a week ago, and Washington lifted sanctions against Tehran, but fighting has since resumed and intensified.
About an hour after Trump's post, the Kuwaiti Army reported that its air defenses were responding to missile and drone attacks, while Bahrain reported the sounding of sirens.
Ships are seen in the Strait of Ormuz
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement that its naval and air forces had launched missile and drone operations against U.S. military installations in Kuwait and Bahrain.
The Guard declared that U.S. strikes violated the ceasefire and would result in "the complete disruption of all diplomatic processes," according to state broadcaster Press TV. The Revolutionary Guard's naval command said American bases in the region "will be going through hell in the coming days."
A U.S. official, confirming that Iran had targeted American facilities, told Reuters that there had been no reports of casualties or significant damage to U.S. sites in the Middle East but that the situation was still developing.
Hours later, alarms sounded for a second time in Bahrain, where officials reported that an Iranian attack damaged a residential building in Muharraq province with no record of victims. Bahrain urged the UN Security Council to hold an emergency session to hold Iran accountable.
The Kuwaiti Army reported intercepting two ballistic missiles, with no damage or casualties.
Separately, Qatar said one of its citizens died after suffering injuries from shrapnel aboard a vessel that had gone missing on Saturday. A second person was injured in the incident, caused by "military operations in the region", the Ministry of the Interior said, without specifying the location or assigning responsibility.

Source: G1