Things are heating up in the Middle East again — and this time the US and Iran are trading blows for a second day running.

So, here we go again. According to cbinews.tv, the US and Iran have been swapping strikes across the Middle East for a second day in a row, and that shaky ceasefire they agreed back in April? It’s hanging by a thread.

US Central Command, or Centcom, says it carried out a round of “self-defence strikes” overnight. They went after military, surveillance and radar sites in southern Iran. That came just hours after President Donald Trump promised US forces would hit Iran “hard”.

Tehran didn’t waste time hitting back. cbinews.tv reports Iran launched its own strikes on US military assets in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan. Iran’s foreign ministry came out early Thursday saying the US attacks broke the two-month-old ceasefire and have made it “practically meaningless”. They’re blaming US leaders for what they called “extremely serious consequences”.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps told state media they fired 12 ballistic missiles at a US command centre in Jordan — Muwaffaq Salti Airbase. They claim they took out “a large number” of US fighter jets and facilities there.

Jordan’s take? State media said their air defences intercepted 20 missiles fired toward Azraq in central Jordan. No one was hurt and nothing was damaged, an unnamed military official said.

Over in Bahrain, cbinews.tv says air raid sirens went off as shrapnel from intercepted Iranian drones hit homes and vehicles in Manama and Hamad Town. An 11-year-old girl picked up a “minor injury”. Bahrain’s ministry called the strikes “sinful”.

Kuwait also had to act. Their Army posted on X that anti-air defences knocked out “hostile aerial targets”. They shut their airspace for a bit due to the Iranian attacks but opened it back up early Thursday.

Meanwhile in Iran, there were reports of explosions around Tehran, Bandar Abbas, and other areas near the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC said they hit two oil tankers moving through the Strait, and state media claimed it was “completely closed to all type of vessel”. Centcom pushed back though, saying commercial ships are still moving through.

All this sent oil prices up. Brent crude jumped about 2% to roughly $95 a barrel after news of the shipping channel trouble broke.

Before the latest US strikes, Trump posted on Truth Social that Iranian leaders had “taken too long to negotiate a deal” and warned more attacks were coming if there’s no deal. US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth backed that up, saying Iran had its chance but didn’t take it — so bombs would be “dropping on key facilities”.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said the country will “stand firm against any pressure or threat”. Tehran’s foreign ministry accused the US of messing up diplomacy with “contradictory messages”.

Quick recap: the US and Iran agreed a ceasefire in April that was only supposed to last two weeks. Since then, it’s been stop-start fighting. Talks have stalled, and now the strikes are getting more frequent. Just this week, a US helicopter was downed in an attack Washington blamed on Iran, and the IRGC responded by targeting US bases.

UN Secretary General António Guterres weighed in on X, saying the Middle East is “being pulled deeper into crisis”. He reckons the ceasefire is now more like a “lesser fire” and warned we can’t risk that turning into “full fire”. His message: “No more attacks. No more excuses.”

As reported by cbinews.tv

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