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U.S. and Iran Trade Fresh Strikes

May 28, 2026 at 7:03 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The United States and Iran traded strikes overnight after President Donald Trump insisted he would not agree to a ‘crummy agreement’ in the negotiations to end the nearly three-month-old war,” the Washington Post reports.

“Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Thursday morning that it had retaliated against a U.S. attack outside the airport in Bandar Abbas, a city on the Strait of Hormuz, by targeting the U.S. air base from which the strike originated.”

New York Times: “In recent days, Washington and Tehran have suggested that they were close to agreeing on a narrow agreement to allow commercial shipping to resume in the strait. But on Wednesday, U.S. forces launched new strikes and President Trump reiterated that he did not want the waterway to be under Iranian control.”

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