US President Donald Trump seems to have finally tired of saying that an agreement with Iran was a matter of “a day or two” or was “very close” – according to a CNN count he said something like that at least 38 times.
And late Wednesday night he ordered new attacks that were confirmed by American central command. “U.S. Central Command forces initiated (…) additional self-defense strikes against multiple targets in Iran under orders from the Commander-in-Chief. The attacks are a response to Iran’s unjustified and continuous aggression”, reads the statement on the X social network.
According to Iranian state media, an explosion was heard in the port city of Bandar Abbas, located on the Strait of Hormuz. The IRNA news agency, cited by Sky News, claims that military projectiles caused explosions on Qeshm and Hengam, two Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf. And a site in the city of Sirik, in the south of the country, was hit by “enemy projectiles”, says Iran’s Press TV.
The night before, the US and Iran had already exchanged more attacks, in the aftermath of Tehran allegedly causing a helicopter to crash. Apache. At that time, Trump wrote that the Iranians are all talk, “they took too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them” and now “they will pay the price”.
On April 7, after issuing an ultimatum to Iran and threatening to destroy the country’s bridges and power plants, Trump announced the beginning of a two-week ceasefire to allow “an agreement to be finalized and consummated”.
But more than two months later, and despite repeating on several occasions that an agreement was close and that Tehran was eager to do so, Trump changed his speech.
“Iran only talks and does not act. bully of the Middle East is DEAD. They took too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them, and now they will have to pay the price!!!,” Trump wrote in Truth Social.
