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news Scmp World 2026-06-01

US Strikes Iran Military Sites; Tehran Retaliates Targeting US Base

The U.S. military announced strikes on Iranian military sites in response to 'aggressive Iranian actions,' including the downing of a U.S. drone. Iran's Revolutionary Guards claimed to have targeted a U.S. base in retaliation.


The US said it struck Iranian military sites at the weekend and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Monday it had targeted a US base in response, the latest in a series of exchanges amid negotiations to end the three-month-old ‌war. The strikes on Iran’s Gulf coast were in response to “aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a US MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters,” the US Central Command said in a post on X. “US fighter aircraft swiftly responded by...

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