{"id":946607,"date":"2026-05-08T18:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/946607\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:17:18","slug":"iranian-officials-condemn-us-attacks-in-persian-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/946607\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian officials condemn US attacks in Persian Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"

US attacks on Iranian oil tankers<\/a>\u00a0were a \u201cviolation of the ceasefire and American terrorism,\u201d said an Iranian military source, according to a report by semi-official Tasnim News.<\/p>\n

The source added that there are currently no clashes in the region, but warned that if the US attempted to re-enter the Persian Gulf<\/a>, it would \u201creceive a decisive response again.\u201d Because of this, there is a possibility of the resumption of conflict in the region, the source warned.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Additionally, Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei warned against \u201cadventurism and roguish behavior\u201d in a post on X\/Twitter on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cScheming and naive euphemisms such as \u2018a light slap\u2019 would not erase the profound disgrace born of narcissism, greed, reckless miscalculation, and lawless irresponsibility,\u201d said the post, adding that \u201cdisjointed, delusional tweets no longer hold any sway over reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US carried out retaliatory strikes on Iranian military facilities<\/a> on Thursday, according to reports from US Central Command (CENTCOM).<\/p>\n

The strikes “eliminated inbound threats and targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking US forces, including missile and drone launch sites; command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance nodes,” CENTCOM added.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump called the retaliatory strikes on Iran “just a love tap,” adding that the ceasefire with Tehran is still in effect.<\/p>\n

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that Iranian missiles and drones\u00a0\u201cdropped ever so beautifully down to the Ocean, very much like a butterfly dropping to its grave!\u201d<\/p>\n

In a later post on Friday, Trump posted an image of a US ship striking an Iranian plane with the caption, “Lasers, Bing, Bing, GONE!”<\/p>\n

This comes as Qatari<\/a> Prime Minister Sheik Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani arrives in Washington, DC, for talks with US Vice President JD Vance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The talks are set to cover negotiations with Iran, as well as plans for regional stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US attacks on Iranian oil tankers\u00a0were a \u201cviolation of the ceasefire and American terrorism,\u201d said an Iranian military…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[9739,264217,774,225955,2820,79169,6860,74677,49,978,61824,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-946607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-ceasefire","9":"tag-centcom","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iran-and-us","12":"tag-marco-rubio","13":"tag-persian-gulf","14":"tag-qatar","15":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-us-navy","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116540332178016902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}