The United States military has said it attacked radar sites on Iran's southern coast in the latest flare-up to threaten the fragile ceasefire in the US-Israeli war with Iran.
US Central Command said in a statement on Friday that its forces shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones launched toward the Strait of Hormuz, then attacked Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in the city of Goruk and on Qeshm Island.
"The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic," while the strikes on radar installations "defend against further attacks," the statement said.
A Pakistan-brokered ceasefire has been in place between the United States and Iran since April 8, but subsequent talks to try to put a more permanent end to the conflict have so far been unsuccessful.
Trump acknowledged in an interview with NBC News late Friday that Iran still has war-fighting capacity.
"They have some missiles, they have some drones. I would say, percentage wise, maybe 21, 22 percent of their missiles," Trump said.
Stalemated war
Iran's military said on Friday it had fired "warning missiles" at two US destroyers in the Gulf of Oman — a claim promptly denied by the US military.
Two days earlier, Kuwait said it had intercepted 30 ballistic missiles fired as part of "heinous Iranian aggression."
US-Israeli attacks on Iran started on February 28, with strikes quickly killing the longtime supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and much of the other top military brass and hundreds of civilians.
But Iran quickly hit back by exerting control over the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passageway through which one-fifth of global oil once sailed, and it has rained missiles and drones on US-allied Gulf states.
