U.S.-Iran Latest: U.S. Strikes Iran after Trump Accuses Tehran of “Foolish Violation” of Ceasefire
By Alex Sundby, Mark Osborne, Khaled Wassef, Frank Andrews
What to know about the Iran war today:
- The U.S. carried out retaliatory strikes against Iran on Friday after Iranian forces hit a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier.
- President Trump on Friday called Iran’s attack a “foolish violation” of the ceasefire, as Tehran and Washington appear to remain at odds on even basic points in their memorandum of understanding, including control of the strait and how Iran will spend its unfrozen funds.
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the framework of a deal Friday between Lebanon and Israel, but Hezbollah, which has rejected similar past deals, was not part of the negotiations.
U.S. hit 4 targets in strikes against Iran, U.S. official says
The U.S. strikes on Iran hit four targets and were carried out by six land-based U.S. aircraft, a U.S. official told CBS News after the strikes concluded.
The strikes targeted Iranian missile and drone storage facilities and radar sites, U.S. Central Command had said in a statement posted to social media, calling it a “powerful response” to Iran’s “dangerous behavior.”
“Violence will be met with violence,” Vance says after U.S. retaliatory strikes
Vice President JD Vance said “violence will be met with violence” after the U.S. carried out retaliatory strikes against Iran on Friday.
“Iran signed a ceasefire agreement. We have honored it. If they have disagreements about how the MOU is being applied, they can pick up the phone,” Vance said on social media, referring to the memorandum of understanding between the two countries. “But violence will be met with violence.”
U.S. hits multiple targets in retaliatory strikes against Iran, official says
U.S. aircraft hit multiple targets along the Strait of Hormuz and on Iran’s Qeshm Island during Friday’s retaliatory strikes against Iran, a U.S. official told CBS News after the strikes concluded.
House Dem says war isn’t “anywhere near over” as U.S. conducts retaliatory strikes
A House Democrat said Friday’s retaliatory strikes by the U.S. against Iran showed that the war isn’t ending anytime soon.
“I don’t think this war is anywhere near over,” Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, a Democrat from Virginia, said on CBS News’ “The Takeout” Friday.
He also doubted the memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran would hold up.
“Iran is difficult to deal with in the first place, and then you have an administration that has showed itself to be incompetent when it comes to foreign affairs and diplomacy, and so that’s why you have the breakdown of all these frameworks,” Subramanyam said.
Retaliatory strikes against Iran are ongoing, U.S. official says
U.S. strikes targets in Iran after drone attack on cargo ship
The U.S. military says it hit Iranian targets on Friday over Iran’s drone attack on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, marking the first American strikes on Iran since the two countries agreed to extend an already rickety ceasefire last week.
The strikes targeted Iranian missile and drone storage facilities and radar sites, U.S. Central Command said in a statement posted to social media, calling it a “powerful response” to Iran’s “dangerous behavior.”
Will Iran face consequences for strike on ship? “You’ll find out,” Trump says.
President Trump was asked by a reporter in the Oval Office whether Iran would face any consequences for carrying out a drone strike on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
“You’ll find out,” Mr. Trump said.
Asked if the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was still in place, the president said, “I don’t like the fact that they took a shot yesterday – actually four, we knocked down three – at a ship, not an allied ship, but a ship, a very expensive ship.”
“They shouldn’t be doing that,” Mr. Trump said.
Trump says “nobody saw” drone that hit cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz
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Describing the U.S. response to a drone strike that President Trump blamed on Iran, the president said one got through unnoticed and struck a ship on Thursday.
“We knocked down three of them. One of them, I guess – we didn’t miss it. Nobody saw it coming,” Mr. Trump said on Friday.
He made the comment while addressing the Faith and Freedom Coalition policy conference in Washington after remarking that Iran still has “some capability, not much.”
“You can’t do that stuff,” he added. Earlier on Friday he called the strike a violation of the ceasefire agreement between Iran and the United States.
Israel, Lebanon agree to framework of deal for “lasting peace and security”
Israel and the government of Lebanon have agreed to the framework of a deal to bring “lasting peace and security” between the neighboring countries, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Friday.
“Today is a good day in that we are happy to announce the framework agreement between the sovereign government of Lebanon and, of course, the government of Israel, with the mediation and support of the United States of America, that begins to put in place a framework for lasting peace and security,” Rubio told reporters at the State Department after several days of negotiations between the two sides.
However, the negotiations did not include Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia that has been involved in the fighting against Israel in southern Lebanon. A previous deal between Israel and Lebanon was quickly rejected by Hezbollah.
Rubio referred to the deal as “the first step” in the pursuit of a lasting peace.
“The people of Israel deserve to live in peace and security. The people of northern Israel in particular, who have been targeted repeatedly by terrorist attacks launched from the territory of Lebanon, but not by the Lebanese people, not by the Lebanese government, but by an outside actor who has sought to use that territory to target innocent civilians who have been unable to live in these places for a long time,” he said, referring to Hezbollah.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio shakes hands with Lebanese Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh as Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter and State Department Chief of Staff Daniel Holler look on during a signing ceremony in Washington, D.C., on June 26, 2026.
It was not immediately clear how the trilateral framework agreement was any different than the ceasefire agreement already in place between Lebanon and Israel, which has been repeatedly defied by Hezbollah with daily attacks against an Israeli military it says is occupying sovereign territory.
Israel’s prime minister’s office released a statement saying it will “maintain its security zone along the Yellow Line in Lebanon until the day when Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations in Lebanon are disarmed and no longer pose a threat to the territory of the State of Israel from Lebanon.”
That would seem to directly contradict Hezbollah and Iran’s assertion that Israel withdraw from Lebanese territory in order to further negotiate a lasting peace deal with the U.S.
Iran issues harsh condemnation of Gulf countries following Rubio meeting
Iran issued a strong condemnation of this week’s Gulf Cooperation Council meeting on Friday, singling out the Gulf countries for agreeing with the U.S. position on the war with Iran.
The meeting, which involves the countries of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, was attended this week by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. A lengthy statement issued after the meeting condemned Iran’s attacks on neighboring countries and affirmed the need for free transit of the Strait of Hormuz.
Though the United States wasn’t mentioned by name, the implication was clear.
“There is no doubt that Iran is more committed to the collective security of the region than any other party,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said on X. “And if the Gulf Cooperation Council believes that resolving this concern lies in seeking protection from the greatest violator of security, then that in itself constitutes a deviation from the intended goal, a bitter paradox, and a disappointing indicator of failing to learn from the recent bitter experiences.”
Iran has regularly fired missiles and drones at several of the members of the GCC during the war.
Like the U.S. and Israel, Iran repeatedly invoked the need for self-defense in its statement.
“Iran’s national security and dignity are matters that brook no compromise or condition; just as the inherent right to legitimate self-defense is not open to discussion, the means of this defense cannot be subject to bargaining or concession with any party,” Baqaei wrote.
115 vessels, 2,500 sailors evacuated from Strait of Hormuz since Tuesday, says U.N. maritime agency
About 115 vessels and 2,500 sailors have been evacuated from the Persian Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz since Tuesday, the head of the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization said Friday.
Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez gave the update after the agency on Thursday suspended its efforts to evacuate some 600 ships and 11,000 sailors, following an attack on a vessel in the Gulf of Oman that U.S. Central Command said was carried out by Iran.
Dominguez said during an online news conference that “115 [vessels] have evacuated in the last three and a half days, representing around 2,500 seafarers that have now safely left the Strait of Hormuz.”
It was unclear whether the operation had resumed.
Trump accuses Iran of “foolish violation” of ceasefire
President Trump has accused Iran of a “foolish violation” of the ceasefire with the U.S.
In a post on Truth Social Friday, the president said Iran has shot “at least four” attack drones at ships traversing the Strait of Hormuz, presumably a reference to Iranian strikes carried out Thursday.
“One of the Drones solidly hit the upper deck of a large and very expensive Cargo Carrying Ship,” Mr. Trump wrote, apparently referring to the strike on the Singapore-flagged Ever Lovely on Thursday. “Damage was done, but the Ship was able to proceed on its way. We knocked down three other Drones.”
“Obviously, this is a foolish violation of our Ceasefire Agreement,” he added.
Iranian sailors from U.S.-seized tanker reach Pakistan before repatriation
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22 Iranian crew members from an oil tanker that was intercepted by the U.S. have been transferred to Iran’s consulate in Karachi, according to an Iranian state media outlet and Pakistan’s foreign minister.
Pakistan, Iran’s neighbor to the east – and the primary mediator in talks with the U.S. – facilitated the return of “the 22 Iranian seafarers whose oil tanker had been seized by the United States,” Iran’s official state news agency IRNA reported.
The crew were handed over to Iranian diplomats in Karachi and they were expected to return to Iran in the coming days, according to the agency.
Ishaq Dar, Pakistan’s foreign minister, identified the vessel as the Lenore/Davina, which U.S. forces boarded on June 5.
“Arrangements are now being finalized in close collaboration with the Iranian Missions in Pakistan to facilitate their earliest and safe return to their homeland,” Dar wrote on X, adding that Pakistan had “remained in close contact with the U.S. and Iranian authorities throughout this process.”
Dar said Pakistan had helped with “the repatriation of over seventy Iranian brethren” over the course of the conflict.
Original source: https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/us-iran-war-israel-hezbollah-strait-of-hormuz-peace-deal-talks/
