Centcom described its actions as “measured, purely defensive, and intended to maintain the ceasefire”.
During a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said that Iran is “negotiating on fumes”, insisting that his war strategy will not be impacted by November’s US midterm elections.
“Maybe we have to go back and finish it, maybe we don’t,” he said.
During that meeting, the president also urged Gulf nations to sign on to the Abraham Accords to normalise relations with Israel, which launched the war with the US on 28 February and is also embroiled in a war with Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The president has threatened to resume a large-scale bombing campaign if Iran does not agree to his terms.
While Trump struck an optimistic note over the weekend, saying that a peace deal with Iran had been “largely negotiated”, by Wednesday’s cabinet meeting, he said that the US is “not satisfied”.
