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Trump warns the US could resume attacks, blaming slow progress in negotiations to end the war.targeting US bases in the region.

Trump warns the US could resume attacks, blaming slow progress in negotiations to end the war.targeting US bases in the region. Americans in Jordan were warned to take cover, while Kuwait’s military said it was intercepting strikes, and sirens sounded in Bahrain.

The US military said it had completed strikes against targets in Iran targeting surveillance capabilities, communication systems and air defense sites. Explosions were heard across Iran, including The president said US attacks could resume if a deal isn’t reached, and that the military may again target critical infrastructure.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they launched retaliatory attacks targeting US military bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan early Thursday, after the US said it It’s the second night in a row Iran has targeted American bases in the region in response to US strikes, an escalation in hostilities that prompted the United Nations chief António Guterres to says the ceasefire“start signing a paper. ”The US Embassy in Jordan warned Americans in the country to take cover as Iran launched strikes targeting a US military base there.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps claimed it “destroyed facilities and a large number of fighter aircraft” at the Al-Azraq air base, state media reported, but provided no evidence of damage. Iran also targeted US bases inExplosions were heard in cities near the capital Tehran, including Abyek, Qarchak, Minab, Nazarabad and Karaj, state media said.

Other locations targeted by the US lay close to the Strait of Hormuz, including Sirik, Bandar Abbas, Qeshm, and Kharg Island –– a critical oil hub in the Persian Gulf.the IRGC said. US Central Command pushed back on the Iranian claim, saying that commercial ships continue to transit in and out of the strait – which the revolutionary guards denied.

IRGC Aerospace Commander Seyed Majid Mousavi warned that Iran couldUS Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said “Project Freedom,” the US military’s operation to guide commercial tankers through the Strait of Hormuz that the Pentagon said was over,CNN’s Rhea Mogul, Jessie Yeung, Nadeen Ebrahim, Charbel Mallo, Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto and Kit Maher contributed reporting to this post. President Donald Trump said “I love the inflation,” in remarks from the Oval Office, brushing off a spike in inflation driven by his war in Iran, saying that “the numbers were great,” adding, “I love it,” of the new data that showed annual inflation hitting a three-year high.

The photo, released by Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency on June 10, 2026, shows the purported remnants of a munition that struck a water reservoir in Southern Iran. Weapons experts who spoke to CNN identified them as being from a GBU-39 series precision-guided munition. CNN could not independently verify that the munitions shown in the image released by the Mehr news agency were found at the site.

The photos of the damaged water tank wereThe photo, released by Mehr alongside images of the destroyed water tank in Bamani, Iran, shows components of a GBU-39 series bomb, a precision-guided munition produced in the US, according to munitions experts Trevor Ball, a former US Army senior explosive ordnance disposal team member, and N.R. Jenzen-Jones, the director of Armament Research Services. Israel and some Gulf states also have the bomb in their arsenals.

Ball said the damage to the water tank was broadly consistent with that from a GBU-39. US Central Command spokesperson Capt. Timothy Hawkins said the command was aware of reports and looking into the situation. Water facilities are protected under the Geneva Convention.

In March, President Donald Trump floated the idea of the US attacking Iran’s water desalinization plants. The threat Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Donald Trump are both facing public opinion on the war in Iran.

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