Iran to hold live-fire drills in Strait of Hormuz with US armada in Middle East

Iran volition behaviour live-fire subject drills adjacent week successful the Strait of Hormuz aft President Donald Trump announced a U.S. armada was connected its mode to the portion amid escalating tensions with Tehran.

The exercises volition beryllium carried retired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ naval forces, Iranian authorities media reported Thursday. 

The announcement came 1 time aft Trump said a ample naval force, led by the USS Abraham Lincoln bearer onslaught group, was heading toward Iran.

In a connection posted to Truth Social, the president warned Tehran to rapidly instrumentality to negotiations implicit its atomic program, saying the fleet was prepared to enactment with "speed and violence" if necessary.

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A outer presumption shows the Strait of Hormuz, a cardinal planetary vigor chokepoint connecting the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman, connected Oct. 2, 2024. (Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data via Getty Images)

"Time is moving out, it is genuinely of the essence! As I told Iran erstwhile before, MAKE A DEAL! They didn’t, and determination was ‘Operation Midnight Hammer,’ a large demolition of Iran," helium wrote. "The adjacent onslaught volition beryllium acold worse! Don’t marque that hap again."

The U.S. struck Iran’s Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan atomic sites successful June utilizing B-2 bombers and Tomahawk missiles.

The bombers flew for 37 hours non-stop from Whiteman Air Force Base successful Missouri to driblet 12 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators connected Fordow and 2 connected Natanz.

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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy unit basal connected a warship during an IRGC marine parade marking Persian Gulf National Day adjacent the Bushehr atomic powerfulness works successful Bushehr, Iran, connected April 29, 2024. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

More than 2 twelve cruise missiles were besides launched astatine Isfahan from a U.S. submarine.

Trump is weighing subject enactment against Tehran, arsenic U.S. assets determination into the portion amid planetary scrutiny implicit a crackdown by the Islamic authorities that has killed thousands of anti-government protesters.

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Iran warned past week that it would respond "with everything we have" to immoderate caller U.S. subject attack, accusing Washington and its allies of exploiting caller unrest to propulsion the portion toward a wider war.

"As Iranians grieve their loved ones and rebuild what has been destroyed, different menace looms: the last nonaccomplishment of diplomacy. Unlike the restraint Iran showed successful June 2025, our almighty equipped forces person nary qualms astir firing backmost with everything we person if we travel nether renewed attack," Iran’s overseas curate Abbas Araghchi said,.