Interim truce looks increasingly precarious as Iran carried out retaliatory strikes on US bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s top negotiator, has accused the US of violating the truce that has kept most of the fighting at bay for the past three weeks.

In a post on X, he said:

America still hasn’t learned that bullying and breaking promises are no longer cost-free. Let me put it plainly: if you strike, you’ll get hit.

Don’t flail around pointlessly, or you’ll sink even deeper: the strait of Hormuz will only open with “Iranian arrangements,” not American threats.”

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