A billboard depicting U.S. President Donald Trump on a building in Tehran, Iran, on Aug. 31, 2026. (Credit: Majid Asgaripour/Reuters)
After a month of relative calm between the U.S. and Iran, on Sunday the United States launched strikes on Iran’s Larak Island, triggering retaliation by Tehran against U.S. targets in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. While so far both the U.S. attack and Iran's response appear to have been measured, the exchange nevertheless threatens to escalate hostilities, more than six months after the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran and plunged the region into a yet unresolved cycle of violence."U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island," located in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, said Tim Hawkins, spokesman for the U.S. military’s Middle East Command (CENTCOM), in a statement sent to AFP. These strikes came after "forces from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [IRGC] were observed preparing...
After a month of relative calm between the U.S. and Iran, on Sunday the United States launched strikes on Iran’s Larak Island, triggering retaliation by Tehran against U.S. targets in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. While so far both the U.S. attack and Iran's response appear to have been measured, the exchange nevertheless threatens to escalate hostilities, more than six months after the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran and plunged the region into a yet unresolved cycle of violence."U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island," located in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, said Tim Hawkins, spokesman for the U.S. military’s Middle East Command (CENTCOM), in a statement sent to AFP. These strikes came after "forces from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [IRGC] were observed...
