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Posted on 05/26/2026 4:31:40 AM PDT by dennisw
Fresh strikes on southern Iran were launched by U.S. military forces early Tuesday morning targeting Iranian missile sites and vessels attempting to lay anti-shipping mines in the contested Strait of Hormuz.
The targeted strikes were done “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces,” but the military was “using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire,” Capt. Tim Hawkins, the spokesman for the U.S. military’s Central Command, said in a statement as reported by AP.
Following the strikes, the BBC reports U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said a deal was still possible and pointed to talks on Tuesday between Iran’s top negotiator and foreign minister and Qatar’s prime minister.
“We’ll see if we can make progress. I think it’s a lot of talking back and forth going on about specific language in the initial document, so it’ll take a few days,” Rubio told reporters during an official visit to India.
He said President Donald Trump had “expressed his desire to make it”.
“He’s either going to make a good deal or no deal,” Rubio added.
When pressed again for comment on Tuesday’s early morning strikes, Rubio elaborated on the strategic nature of the action: “The straits have to be open. They’re going to be open one way or the other, so they need to be open. What’s happening there is unlawful, it’s illegal, it’s unsustainable for the world, it’s unacceptable.”
Capt Hawkins said the U.S. strikes targeted an area near Bandar Abbas, a southern port city and the site of one of Iran’s largest naval bases, that sits on the Strait of Hormuz, according to the New York Times.
Iranian state media had earlier reported local officials in Bandar Abbas were investigating after explosions were heard.
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If you're launching missilea at the enemy, can you really call it an "ongoing ceasefire"?
If this continues up to election day in November, it will cost Trump in those elections.
“If you’re launching missile at the enemy, can you really call it an “ongoing ceasefire”
These Twelver punks were laying mines. A cease fire violation. So US jets offed them to terminate with extreme prejudice, to keep the ceasefire intact. The US kept IRGC lunatics in compliance.
While the recent military strikes on May 25 were described by the US as “self-defense against active threats to American troops,” they occurred within the context of an ongoing, broader 2026 conflict which partnered U.S. and Israeli military actions against Iran.
The US and Israel conducted massive parallel, coordinated, strikes against Iranian regime assets, military infrastructure, and nuclear sites.
Israeli Influence Predominates
Earlier reports indicated Israel and the U.S. were operating under a shared, intensified effort to destroy Iran’s maritime and missile capabilities. Trump’s new strikes occurred while a ceasefire was in place,
The buzz is Israel was miffed about a “deal.”
Trump’s deal negotiations kept Israel “on the outside looking in” b/c military action (not negotiation) would give Israel massive amounts of tax dollars (tax dollars already earmarked for Israel’s “defense”).
The Israeli tax dollars would be their cut of the $200
billion “additional tax dollar war funding” Trump wants.
Works in Russia😎🤔
Blah blah blah....
Be sure to face Mecca when you pray to moon idol allah.
Backstory: Based on reported events from early 2026, the United States and Israel initially launched a joint offensive named targeting Iran. This attack featured airpower, and naval assets, with US forces leveraging regional bases for strikes alongside Israeli military units.
Military Power Utilized Included:
<><>Airpower & Strategic Strike:
<><>involved a large-scale aerial campaign,
<><>featuring 5th-generation fighter jets (F-35, F-15, F-16) and B-52 bombers
<><>targeted Iranian Revolutionary Guard facilities,
<><>ballistic missile sites, and command structures.
<><>Naval & Logistics Power:
<><>A US Carrier Strike Group was positioned off the coast,
<><>US warships and over 45,000 personnel were deployed
<><>deployed in the region for support and offensive strikes.
<><>US aircraft utilized Israeli bases for refueling and operations.
<><>Technological Assets:
<><>integrated advanced defense systems (Israel’s Iron Dome, Arrow)
<><>counter retaliatory strikes,
<><>”hard-kill” weaponry to dismantle Iranian air defense systems.
Israel and Mossad previously assured Trump that by bombing Iran:
<><>Iran’s ballistic missile program could be “destroyed” in weeks.
<><>The regime would be “too weak” to close the Strait of Hormuz.
<><>Street protests — fomented with Mossad help — could “trigger an uprising.”
<><>Kurdish fighters from Iraq could “open a ground front” in the northwest.
None of which happened.
Creep
@DJT: Please stop dicking around with these crazy, lying death-cultists - just finish them! Even of some kind of deal is worked out, they will cheat on it literally every day, and someday we’ll have to go back in and finish the job - if the then- POTUS has the guts to do it. We have them on the ropes, we have the forces ther - just end this regime!
Nuke ‘em. Nuke the bastards.
For Israel it isn’t about a few dollars, it’s about surviving. Imagine if we faced a nuclear Russia during the Cold War that was governed by a death cult that believed that their version of paradise required our annhilation - we’d have had hundreds of cities nuked. That scenario is what Israel is trying to avoid.
In effect, the naval blockade is more effective than nuclear means.
Trump’s not on the ballot.
And he doesn’t care any more about the Republican Party than it cares about him.
And he doesn’t care any more about the Republican Party than it cares about him.
Exactly. As far as Impeachment, Trump is thinking “Bring it on, bitches!”
That is a totally mistaken concept
That is a totally mistaken concept
Yes, lets continue parroting that crazy Iran cannot have a nuke because they would use it, by nuking Iran.
🤪🙄🙄
How?
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