As we reported, the U.S. struck back after the Iranian regime violated the ceasefire, firing on a cargo ship exiting the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, as well as coastal radar sites, after Iran hit the M/V Ever Lovely. The ship was carrying Qatari oil, and was headed to the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates.
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Vice President JD Vance warned the regime that “violence [would] be met with violence.”
Iran signed a ceasefire agreement. We have honored it. If they have disagreements about how the MOU is being applied, they can pick up the phone.
But violence will be met with violence. https://t.co/VWnBS1PWaV
— JD Vance (@JDVance) June 26, 2026
But apparently, Iran hasn’t learned its lesson, because it then fired drones at Bahrain.
Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday it was targeted by a “number of Iranian drones” as tensions are escalating around the Strait of Hormuz.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the Kingdom of Bahrain’s strongest condemnation of 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,” Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Bahrain said it was the “sole responsibility of Tehran for undermining peace efforts.”
The Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council condemned the attack, terming it “treacherous.”
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre said on Saturday that a tanker had also been hit by a projectile in the Strait.
Iran’s response was to try to blame the U.S., even though the Iranians were the ones who started firing at people.
Mohsen Rezaei, a military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader and former commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, justified their strike on Bahrain by claiming the U.S. had violated the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
“America, by supporting the actions of its proxy forces in the region, has violated the first article of the memorandum of understanding, and by continuing to create tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, has violated the fifth article. The response to the violation of any article of the memorandum of understanding will be swift and decisive,” Rezaei wrote on X on Saturday.
The first point in the U.S.-Iran deal signed last week says in part, “The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current war by signing this MOU declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.”
The fifth point says “the Islamic Republic of Iran will make arrangements using its best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge for 60 days only from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman and vice versa.”
He literally blamed the U.S. for Iran’s own violation.
We’ll have to see if that’s just mouthing off (as they often do), or if that has further impact on the MOU and the deal.
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