This Is Why the Iran War Is Still Not Over: “Trump is a lobbyist for American shale oil producers. It is profitable for them to extract oil there when the price per barrel is over $75. So everything will be done to keep it that way.”

 

This is a comment from reader Sausra2. The war still goes on:

“The United States launched new attacks on Iran on Thursday, which in turn retaliated, with US leaders accusing their counterparts of delaying talks on a deal.

 

The second consecutive day of retaliatory strikes, after Iran targeted US bases in the Persian Gulf, has again pushed up oil prices.

 

US President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly said that talks with Tehran are nearing an end, said on Wednesday that Iran continues to “take us for fools” and will now “pay the price.”

 

Hours later, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said that US forces had launched “additional self-defensive strikes” at 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday. Washington (0:45 a.m. Iranian time on Thursday) in response to what it said was “Tehran’s unjustified and ongoing aggression.”

 

Iranian media reported explosions in the south of the country near the Strait of Hormuz, with explosions heard in Bandar Abbas, Qeshm and Minab, and sources reported “enemy projectiles” hitting Kargan and Sirik.

 

CENTCOM later said it had ended strikes against “Iran’s military intelligence capabilities, communications systems and air defense facilities.”

 

US forces “launched precision munitions at Iranian targets that posed a threat to US forces and international commercial vessels sailing in regional waters,” the command said.

 

The renewed hostilities began after Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said that if Trump demands it, “we will negotiate with bombs, and we are very good at doing that.”

 

In response to the US strikes, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had struck US targets at bases in Kuwait and Bahrain and also “hit and destroyed the Sheikh Issa air base,” the state news agency IRNA reported.

 

Later, the Tasnim news agency reported strikes on the US “al-Azraq air base and its command center in Jordan, using 12 ballistic missiles,” and the Guards claimed to have destroyed these facilities “as well as a large number of fighter jets.”

 

Iranian media reported that the military had carried out drone strikes on communications antennas and radar installations belonging to the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.

 

Bahrain has issued a weather alert and urged residents to “go to the nearest safe place,” the Gulf state’s interior ministry said on social media.

 

Kuwait has temporarily closed its airspace after its military said air defense systems were working to intercept “hostile air targets.”

 

Iran has also re-issued a warning over the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for oil and gas transportation that it has largely closed.

 

“Are you making the holy Strait of Hormuz unsafe?! We will turn this region into hell for you,” Majid Mousavi, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Force, wrote on social media.

 

The Iranian navy said it had hit two ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, state television IRIB and the Mehr news agency reported.

 

Tasnim quoted the country’s military operational command as saying the crucial strait was “completely closed” and that “any ship traffic” through it would be targeted.

 

CENTCOM denied this, saying that “commercial ships continue to sail in and out of the Strait of Hormuz tonight.” Trump said on Wednesday that the U.S. military had secretly helped 100 million barrels of oil pass through the disputed strait.”