In a week that began with President Trump pronouncing that a ceasefire extension was so close with Iran, two or three days max, and that would only take an hour to finalise. Hours later Tehran downed a US Apache helicopter off the Gulf of Oman with the crew rescued from the sea, the attack reportedly an attempt to deter the US’s evolving efforts to increase air patrols that target Iranian drones in order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Two nights of US military strikes across Iran followed, with counter attacks from the Iranian regime in strikes on US bases in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan. By Thursday President Trump warned of hard attacks to come by nightfall, declaring a plan to capture Iran’s Kharg Island in the not-too-distant future, but the threat to strike was called off, President Trump claimed Iranian leadership had blinked and approved the final points of a ceasefire extension. Iran’s regime has said no final decision has been made.
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