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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jason Burke International security correspondent

Escalating US-Iran strikes threaten interim peace agreement

Boats anchored off Oman's northern Musandam peninsula near the strait of Hormuz.
Boats anchored off Oman's northern Musandam peninsula near the strait of Hormuz. Iran launched attacks on US sites in the Gulf in response to American strikes on Tehran. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

A new round of escalating strikes between Iran and the US has continued, further undermining the fragile interim peace agreement between the two countries, and prompting Donald Trump to threaten violence that would ensure Iran “will no longer exist”.

On Sunday, Tehran launched drone and missile attacks against Bahrain and Kuwait after new US strikes on sites in southern Iran, and threatened a “complete halt” to negotiations to end the war. Trump said that a moment might come soon when he abandoned talks and the US would “militarily finish the job”.

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