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CAIRO, Cairo Governorate \u2014<\/p>\nTrump threatens more strikes on Iran. Tensions from Hormuz to Kuwait and Gaza lead to more warnings<\/p>\n
CAIRO, Cairo Governorate \u2014<\/p>\n
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened more strikes on Iran as the United States presses for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
Hours later on Saturday, Kuwait said it responded to a new round of drone attacks from Iran while a tanker was struck in the strategic waterway.<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, Israel carried out heavy strikes on the Gaza Strip after the Palestinian militant group Hamas agreed to disarm.<\/p>\n
Here are the most important developments in the Middle East today:<\/p>\n
US threatens new strikes in the conflict with Iran<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters Friday during a meeting with members of his Cabinet at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, Trump said \u201cwe just want to win\u201d in Iran and signaled that he expected U.S. military action to continue for some time.<\/p>\n
He said the U.S. will hit Iran \u201cvery hard\u201d until they can\u2019t take it anymore.<\/p>\n
Later that day, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt expressed the U.S. administration\u2019s frustration anew, charging that Tehran last month signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. on a truce but then quickly \u201cbroke it, shot at commercial ships, and killed American soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Trump is not going to stand by and allow this terrorist behavior to occur,\u201d Leavitt said in a statement Friday evening. \u201cIran will continue to pay until they come to the table in, what President Trump deems, a meaningful way.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Saturday, the U.S. State Department issued new security alerts for Americans in 10 countries in the region to exercise heightened caution due to the escalating tensions with Iran.<\/p>\n
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Motorbikes drive past a billboard showing a graphic calling for revenge on Imam Hussein, one of Shiite Islam\u2019s most beloved saints, who was killed in a 7th century battle, and the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed during the U.S. and Israel strike on Feb. 28, in a square in downtown Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n
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The warnings \u2014 covering Bahrain, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates \u2014 urged U.S. citizens to prepare for the possibility of flight cancellations, temporary airspace closures and other travel disruptions.<\/p>\n
New attacks on Kuwait and on shipping<\/p>\n
Kuwait\u2019s military said Saturday that its forces were responding to drone attacks which were part of Iran\u2019s assaults on the country.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Maj. Gen. Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi, spokesperson for Kuwait’s Defense Ministry, said the drones hit \u201ca number of vital facilities,\u201d including a government structure in the country’s north. He said there were no casualties.<\/p>\n
The British Navy said Saturday that a tanker was struck and a separate explosion hit close to a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Oman. No casualties were reported in either incident, it said. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Organization said an unknown projectile hit the vessel on Friday 11 nautical miles northeast of Lima, Oman. The attack damaged the vessel\u2019s engine room.<\/p>\n
The group said that on Saturday a large splash and an explosion were reported close to another tanker while it was sailing 21 nautical miles northwest of Khasab city.<\/p>\n
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Separately, crude oil appeared to be leaking and spreading in recent days from a sanctioned tanker grounded off the coast of Oman, close to a marine protected area, satellite images reviewed by The Associated Press show.<\/p>\n
Iran has repeatedly attacked vessels attempting to transit through the Strait of Hormuz without its authorization as part of its ongoing conflict with the U.S.<\/p>\n
Israel strikes Gaza after Hamas says it will disarm<\/p>\n
Intense Israeli strikes Friday night and Saturday killed at least four people in central and northern Gaza and wounded dozens more, according to local health officials.<\/p>\n
The strikes overnight in Gaza followed evacuation warnings by Israel\u2019s military, which said on Saturday that it had struck Hamas targets across the territory and dismantled five Hamas storage facilities.<\/p>\n
The strikes came after Hamas confirmed Friday that it will disarm in a potential breakthrough for ending the war in Gaza, though major obstacles remain.<\/p>\n
Palestinians in Gaza \u2014 most of whom are displaced or live in camps \u2014 received the news with both hope and skepticism. A 24-year-old tuk-tuk driver, Abdel Moneim Aboul-Roos, who lost his leg in an Israeli strike, told The Associated Press that he doesn’t care about \u201ctalk about withdrawal and disarmament\u201d as long as essentials like food and medicine remain lacking.<\/p>\n
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Israel has not officially commented on the Hamas deal, which is part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire announced last October.<\/p>\n
That agreement called for Hamas to disarm and hand over power to an independent Palestinian administration. Israel was to withdraw and an International Stabilization Force was to be deployed.<\/p>\n
In a post on X Friday, Israeli far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir called the deal \u201cunacceptable\u201d and said the killings in Gaza must continue. \u201cIsrael must win,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Egypt, a key Gaza ceasefire mediator, lauded Hamas and other Palestinian groups for \u201ctheir positive response\u201d in the phased peace plan, Egyptian state-run media reported. <\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the region<\/p>\n
\u2014 Houthi rebels forced eight Saudi ships to reroute from the Bab el-Mandeb strait after the Iranian-backed rebels announced a blockade on Saudi shipping in the choke point. Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, the military spokesperson for the Houthis, said in a statement Friday that the vessels changed route to the Cape of Good Hope around Africa to avert the blockade.<\/p>\n
\u2014 In southern Lebanon, Israeli forces set off explosions Friday to destroy an underground tunnel network under the Crusader-built Beaufort Castle that Israel says had been used by Iran-backed Hezbollah militants as a command center. The 12th-century castle, also known as Al-Shaqif, was seized by Israeli forces in May. It was recently added to UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage List over Israel\u2019s objections.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun said the Israeli operation sent \u201cnegative messages\u201d ahead of upcoming talks in Rome. Israeli and Lebanese negotiating teams are set to meet again there to continue hammering out a plan under which Israel would withdraw from southern Lebanon in exchange for Hezbollah\u2019s disarmament.<\/p>\n
\u2014 An Israeli army officer was moderately wounded in an encounter with Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon overnight into Saturday, Israel’s military said. There was no immediate comment from Lebanese authorities or Hezbollah. Thirty-eight Israeli soldiers have been killed in Lebanon or northern Israel since that conflict reignited when Hezbollah fired at Israel shortly after the start of the Iran war. <\/p>\n
Madhani reported from Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump threatens more strikes on Iran. Tensions from Hormuz to Kuwait and Gaza lead to more warnings CAIRO,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[1555,38,496,2254,1411,3646,102,34,37,35,93,179,6779,181,5308,101,798,392,37799,1220],"class_list":["post-232045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-country","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-strip","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah-militant","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-kuwait","tag-lebanon","tag-military","tag-mpnd","tag-oman","tag-saturday","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tanker","tag-trump","tag-u-s-administration","tag-vessel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117023150442484814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232045","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=232045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}