The Middle East has returned to a new point of crisis, with Tehran again threatening Israel’s destruction as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict struggle to gain traction.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned on Thursday that there could be no peace in the region as long as Israel exists.
“As long as this child-killing and evil regime is not wiped from the face of the earth, western Asia will not know peace,” the IRGC said in a statement, sharply escalating Tehran’s rhetoric amid renewed tensions.
The military organisation also attacked the peace initiatives of US President Donald Trump, describing him as “evil and adventurous” and claiming that his plans bring “nothing but death, bloodshed and terrorism”.
The United States and Iran have exchanged strikes throughout the week, while Trump has said he remains optimistic that his administration is making progress in talks with Tehran aimed at ending the war.
The US military accused Iran on Thursday of violating a fragile ceasefire after Kuwait said it had come under attack, in the latest incident threatening to derail negotiations.
US Central Command said Kuwait had intercepted missiles launched from Iran late on Wednesday night, describing the strike against one of Washington’s key Gulf allies as a “clear violation of the ceasefire”.
Kuwait had earlier said its territory had been attacked, while Tehran claimed it had carried out retaliatory strikes in response to earlier attacks, targeting a US base. Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry described the incident as “blatant aggression” by Iran.
On Monday, the United States said it had carried out what the Pentagon described as “defensive” strikes against missile launch sites and mine-laying vessels in southern Iran.
US officials said late on Wednesday in Washington that American forces had launched further strikes against Iran, shooting down four attack drones deemed to pose a threat near the Strait of Hormuz and hitting an Iranian ground-control station in Bandar Abbas, from where a fifth drone was due to be launched.
Source: Skai.gr
