President Trump threatens to annihilate Iran. Kuwait and Bahrain report attacks

President Donald Trump on Sunday once again threatened to annihilate Iran after the United States attacked Iranian military targets in retaliation for Iran’s recent ship attacks in the strategically important Strait of Hormuz.

Iran’s neighbors Kuwait and Bahrain reported incoming missiles and drones overnight.

President Trump wrote on Truth Social: “US aircraft just attacked Iranian missile and drone storage sites and coastal radar facilities in violation of the ceasefire agreement!”

On Saturday, the US military struck a number of targets in Iran after a commercial tanker was reportedly hit by a projectile in the Strait of Hormuz.

The attack was the latest in heightened tensions between the two countries in recent days following an interim agreement aimed at ending hostilities in the region.

U.S. Central Command announced early Sunday that its warplanes had struck 10 Iranian military targets in and near the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for a drone attack on the Panamanian-flagged tanker M/T Kiku. Centcom said late Saturday that the ship was transiting the strait carrying more than 2 million barrels of crude oil.

President Trump wrote, “The time may come when we will no longer be able to remain rational. We will be forced to carry out militarily the work we have successfully begun. Then the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!”

President Trump has repeatedly threatened to return Iran to the “stone age.”

President Trump stoked fears of nuclear war in an April Truth Social post, threatening that “the entire civilization will perish tonight.” “For Iran, the clock is ticking. If we don’t move quickly, there will be nothing left,” Trump said in a May post.

Iran said it attacked U.S. military targets in Kuwait and Bahrain early Sunday, following U.S. attacks on its coastal facilities.

Kuwait’s military said its air defenses were “facing enemy missile and drone attacks.”

Bahrain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the “dangerous escalation of renewed aggression by Iran into its territory, once again targeting the country with numerous ballistic missiles and drones.”

Bahrain’s statement added: “What the Iranian government is doing is not a one-off act or an isolated incident, but rather a deliberate approach and a systematic pattern of repeated attacks.”

Despite the barrage, Central Command said commercial ships continued to pass through the vital waterway.

Oil prices widened their decline on Friday as more tankers departed from the Strait of Hormuz, easing supply concerns.

International benchmark Brent crude oil futures for August fell 4.34% to end at $71.99 per barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures for August fell 3.74% to end at $69.23 per barrel. The last time WTI futures closed below $70 was on February 27, the day before the start of the Iran war.

Centcom said the US strikes targeted Iran’s “military surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense facilities, drone storage facilities, and mine-laying capabilities.”

The new attack comes as the United States and Iran are in talks to end the war and are set to sign a 60-day ceasefire. However, both sides have accused the other of violating the terms of the agreement.

U.S. forces attacked Iran on Friday after President Trump accused the Islamic Republic of a “stupid violation” of the ceasefire agreement by carrying out drone attacks on ships in the strait.

Iran rammed the Singapore-flagged cargo ship Everlovely in the strait off the coast of Oman on Thursday, the Central Command announced in a post on X. The ship continued to transit the strait, which is a major oil transport artery.

The new attacks come more than a week after President Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at creating a permanent peace deal to end the war between the two countries.

— CNBC’s Sarah Ming, Terry Cullen and Dan Mangan contributed to this report