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\nUS launches ninth night of Iran strikes<\/p>\nThe U.S. military\u2019s Central Command announced a new round of strikes early Monday, now into their ninth straight night. Central Command said it targeted \u201cIranian military command centers, air defense and coastal surveillance sites, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites and communications networks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s state-run IRNA news agency reported that the American strikes killed at least one person around Tabriz, a northwestern city about 520 kilometers (325 miles) from the capital, Tehran. Tabriz is believed to host underground missile bases run by Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.<\/p>\n
U.S. strikes likely also hit Bandar Imam Khomeini in Khuzestan province, Sirik and Jask in Hormozgan province and Konarak and Chahbahar in Sistan and Baluchistan province, IRNA reported.<\/p>\n
As the strikes began, a vessel caught fire early Monday in the Strait of Hormuz after being hit by a projectile near the coastline of Oman, the British military\u2019s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said. The crew abandoned the vessel, which was adrift and still ablaze hours later, the UKMTO said.<\/p>\n
The route around Oman has been the one the U.S. military has encouraged ships to travel to avoid Iran\u2019s control. The Guard later claimed it was targeting tankers in the strait.<\/p>\n
Tehran has retaliated by hitting U.S.-allied countries throughout the Middle East. Bahrain sounded its missile alert sirens Monday morning, while Kuwait said its air defense were firing at an incoming Iranian barrage.<\/p>\n
The Strait of Hormuz remains key to the conflict<\/p>\n
Trump has threatened to target Iran\u2019s power stations and bridges to try to compel Tehran to loosen its hold on the Strait of Hormuz, which saw one-fifth of traded global oil supplies transit before the war. Recent attacks suggest the U.S. military is carrying out that plan.<\/p>\n
The U.S. in the past week reimposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports to halt its shipments of crude oil. The military on Saturday said it had redirected six ships and disabled one since then.<\/p>\n
The halfway point has passed in the 60 days the deal set out to negotiate the permanent end of the war and other issues, including Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that the U.S. is still open to negotiating with Iran but that \u201cit has to be real.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to continue to respond. If the door opens to diplomacy \u2014 if the guys that want to do something productive for Iran win and take control of that system, or take control of the negotiations \u2014 that\u2019ll be a very positive development,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cThat\u2019s not where we are tonight, unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei hours later acknowledged that \u201cproposals conveyed through mediators have been communicated to us,\u201d but he declined to elaborate on their substance.<\/p>\n
Mohammad Javad Zarif, a former Iranian foreign minister who helped elect the country\u2019s reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian, acknowledged in an essay published Monday by Foreign Policy that the interim \u201cdeal could never survive such dissonance\u201d over the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the current conflict makes clear, Washington cannot eliminate the Iranian government,\u201d Zarif wrote. \u201cOnly diplomacy, a new peace agreement, and a new security framework produced by regional states and for regional states will allow the United States to turn its attention elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Zarif did warn the country\u2019s theocracy that \u201cif Iran repeatedly threatens maritime traffic, it could turn much of the world against it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iranian authorities on Sunday said at least 50 people have been killed and 517 wounded in the latest rounds of U.S. strikes. Since the war began on Feb. 28, 17 U.S. service members have been killed.<\/p>\n
Associated Press writers Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran, and Michelle L. Price in Washington contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By JON GAMBRELL DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 The United States conducted a new round of airstrikes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[6650,34,196,101,69,225,860],"class_list":["post-214804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-us-troops-killed","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-us-iran","tag-us-strikes-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116952261807929057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214804","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=214804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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