US strikes ‘multiple targets’ in Iran and Trump says regime will ‘no longer exist’ in threat to fragile ceasefire

THE US has hit “multiple targets” in Iran just one day after launching fresh attacks – marking another blow to the fragile ceasefire. Donald Trump said the new strikes were a response to Tehran “violating the ceasefire agreement, again” before threatening the regime will “no longer exist”. President Trump said on Truth Social: “United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN! “It is very possible that they will never learn! “There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!” The latest attacks, in the early hours of Sunday local time, come just hours after the US president unleashed a fresh missile salvo on the regime over Friday night. Read More World News Both rounds of attacks come after an Iranian drone hit a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday – which the US branded a violation of the peace deal. US Central Command said they launched the latest overnight attacks “at the Commander in Chief’s direction”. Centcom said: “After yesterday’s U.S. strikes in response to the Iranian attack on M/V Ever Lovely, Iran was given a chance to honor the ceasefire agreement but elected not to when its forces launched a one-way attack drone that hit M/T Kiku this morning at 4:30 a.m. ET. “The Panama-flagged tanker was transiting near the Strait of Hormuz with more than two-million barrels of crude oil.” Most read in The Sun They said they targeted various sites including Iranian military surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defence sites, drone storage facilities, and mine-layer capabilities. Iranian state broadcaster IRIB said early on Sunday that explosions were heard in Sirik in the south of the country. In the wake of the strikes, air raid sirens have reportedly been sounded in Kuwait and Bahrain. It comes after Centcom released dramatic footage of the fresh strikes on Iran which took place over Friday night. The clip showed US forces striking missile and drone storage sites in response to the Iranian attack on a cargo ship in the strait. Tehran then accused the US of a “brutal and blatant violation” of its peace deal after Trump’s attacks. They said: “These brutal attacks, which targeted Iranian coastal surveillance facilities, are a blatant violation of the memorandum of understanding to end the war.” Tehran then hit back with a series of dawn strikes on Bahrain on Saturday. Both the US and Iran have accused each other of breaking the teetering ceasefire over the last few days. Vice President JD Vance previously wrote on X: “Iran signed a ceasefire agreement. “We have honored it. If they have disagreements about how the MOU is being applied, they can pick up the phone. “But violence will be met with violence.” The Strait was reopened as a result of a ceasefire deal between the US and Iran earlier this month. An agreement was made by the two nations on June 17 to end the fighting under a 14-point memorandum of understanding. The pact called for Iran to use its “best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge for 60 days”. But the latest rounds of attacks across the Middle East have thrown the peace deal into doubt.