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Explosions were heard on Iran\u2019s Qeshm Island on Tuesday afternoon, according to the semi-official Iranian news agency, Mehr News Agency. The cause of the explosions remains unknown, and no official authority has commented on the incident so far. The island is strategically located between the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported that drones were spotted in the skies over Qeshm Island on Monday night. Following the sightings, air defence systems were activated.<\/p>\n
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The IRGC-affiliated outlet, along with other pro-regime media organisations, shared footage of demonstrators waving Iranian flags and chanting slogans such as \u201cDeath to Israel\u201d and \u201cDeath to the United Arab Emirates.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Local media outlets also reported that Qeshm Island\u2019s air defence systems were activated again on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
Trump Says Planned Airstrikes Were Postponed<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he had planned to resume airstrikes on Tuesday but postponed them at the request of Gulf leaders.<\/p>\n
In the post, Trump stated that he had originally planned to carry out strikes on Tuesday. He also mentioned several Gulf leaders, including Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on my respect for the above-mentioned leaders, I have instructed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Daniel Caine, and the United States military that we will NOT be carrying out the scheduled attack on Iran tomorrow,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4 Explosions were heard on Iran\u2019s Qeshm Island on Tuesday afternoon, according to the semi-official Iranian news agency,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[38,41402,41400,41401,4482,34,39,30062,224],"class_list":["post-121172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-donald-trump","tag-drone-attack-on-iran","tag-explosion-heard-near-strait-of-hormuz","tag-explosions-on-irans-qeshm-island","tag-gulf-region","tag-iran","tag-persian-gulf","tag-strat-of-hormuz","tag-us-iran-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116601261097904767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}