DUBAI ¨C The U.S. said it struck Iranian military sites on the weekend and Iran¡¯s Revolutionary Guard said on Monday it had targeted a U.S. base in response, the latest exchange of ?attacks amid negotiations to end the three-month-old war.
The U.S. and Iran have sporadically exchanged strikes since their ceasefire took effect ?in early ?April as diplomacy aimed at a more durable agreement drags on. A similar exchange occurred last ?Thursday and was described in near-identical terms by both sides.
The weekend U.S. strikes on Iran¡¯s Gulf coast were in response to ¡°aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a U.S. MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters,¡± the U.S. Central Command ?said in a post on X.
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