Iran War. . . USA Up 2-0 in the First Period

[Ron in Regina]

After some 48 hours of relative calm following sporadic clashes last week that have shaken a month-old ceasefire, Kuwait detected several hostile drones in its airspace early on Sunday, authorities said.

Trump’s Saturday: LIV golf, punishing gas prices and radio silence from Iran — MS NOW

One analyst warned that this weekend’s gas prices are only "the calm before the storm."

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Iran responded to Washington's latest peace proposal on Sunday, after drones threatened several Gulf region targets and Tehran warned it would not hold back from retaliating against any new US strikes.

It all hinges on Israel ceasing its illegal war and occupation with Lebanon and stopping Israeli terrorism and illegal occupation in Palestine. Its time you started paying attention to what is really going on and accept reality.

All? According to state broadcaster IRIB, Tehran's response, passed to Pakistani mediators, focuses on ending the war "on all fronts, especially Lebanon" -- where Israel has kept up its fight with Iran-backed Hezbollah -- as well as on "ensuring shipping security". Hmmm…

US President Donald Trump had said he was expecting Iran's reply by Friday, but as the wait dragged on, the ceasefire in the Gulf came under increasing strain, including from Sunday's drone strikes, one of which hit and damaged a freighter sailing towards a port in Qatar.

The United Arab Emirates accused Iran of being behind another attack that targeted its territory in what would be, if confirmed, only the second alleged strike on a Gulf country since the start of the month-old truce.

"We will never bow down to the enemy, and if there is talk of dialogue or negotiation, it does not mean surrender or retreat," Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on X Sunday.

Iranian officials have frequently pushed back against U.S. claims of a deal, describing some proposals as an "American wish list". Iran has insisted it is still "reviewing" proposals and that "excessive" U.S. demands have blocked progress. Despite the talk of a deal, US and Iranian forces have continued to exchange fire in the Strait of Hormuz, and a shaky “ceasefire” has been violated multiple times by both sides.

We've been through this with Hezbollah having the right to fight Israeli occupation and even fire rockets into Israel.

Not according to the actual Lebanese government.

Hezbollah is legal, Israeli occupation of Lebanon is illegal.

That’s kind of a misleading statement. Hezbollah is a political party in Lebanon and that’s legal, but Hezbollah is also a non-state military something or another while the Lebanese government (of which Hezbollah is a part of) has stated that its military activities (like attacking Israel for example) are illegal and has banned the group's armed operations, demanding they cease all military actions and hand over their weapons to the state.

Tehran's military chief Ali Abdollahi, meanwhile, met the country's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei and received "new directives and guidance for the continuation of operations to confront the enemy", according to Iranian state television.

Qatar's defence ministry said a freighter arriving in the country's waters from Abu Dhabi was hit by a drone on Sunday off the port of Mesaieed.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations centre said the bulk carrier reported being struck by an unknown projectile.

"There was a small fire that has been extinguished, there are no casualties. There is no reported environmental impact," it said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Iran's Fars news agency reported that "the bulk carrier that was struck near the coast of Qatar was sailing under a US flag and belonged to the United States".

In a social media post on Sunday, the spokesman for the Iranian parliament's national security commission warned the United States: "Our restraint is over as of today."

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has said that Washington is expecting a response from Iran to its proposals for an interim deal to end the conflict in the Middle East, as Iran accused the US of breaching the increasingly fragile ceasefire announced last month…

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The response took until Sunday ‘cuz Trump dictated a deadline of Friday. Iran's Revolutionary Guards had threatened the day before to target US interests in the Middle East if its tankers came under fire -- as they did on Friday when a US fighter jet fired on and disabled two Iran-flagged vessels in the Gulf of Oman.

Iran responds to US peace proposal as drones hit Gulf — AFP News

Iran responded to Washington's latest peace proposal on Sunday, after drones threatened several Gulf region targets and Tehran warned it would not hold back from retaliating against any new US strikes.

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Went into the weekend with promises of peace from Trump, and before the markets open Monday morning, this. Right on schedule. The United Arab Emirates said that its territory had also come under attack, and called out Iran by name.

"UAE air defence systems successfully engaged two UAVs launched from Iran," the defence ministry said, in a social media post. Iran's neighbour Kuwait also reported an attempted attack. "At dawn today, the armed forces detected a number of hostile drones in Kuwaiti airspace, which were dealt with in accordance with established procedures," the military posted.

In Seoul, defence ministry spokesman Park Il told reporters that a South Korean cargo vessel had been hit on Monday and was damaged by fire before making its way to port in Dubai.

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"On May 4, two unidentified aircraft struck the outer plate of the port-side ballast tank at the stern of the HMM Namu at roughly one-minute intervals, causing flames and smoke," he said. Maybe they were drones from somewhere?

Iran has set up a payment mechanism to extract tolls from shipping crossing the strait, but US officials have stressed it would be "unacceptable" for Tehran to control what had been an international waterway and the route of a fifth of the world's oil exports.

According to Iran's proposal, ⁠the current phase of negotiations will focus exclusively on the cessation of hostilities in the region, a source familiar with the matter told IRNA.

Iran sends its response to US proposal aimed at ending the war, IRNA says — Reuters

Iran has sent its response to a U.S. proposal aimed ‌at ending the more than two-month warto mediator, Pakistan, Iran's IRNA news agency said on Sunday.

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