After ‘US violated its commitments’
Iran says 50 killed in US strikes since June 27
Tehran
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said on Saturday that Tehran has suspended its commitments to a recent memorandum of understanding (MoU) after “the US violated its commitments”.
“The US has violated and suspended all its commitments within the framework of the Islamabad MoU,” Gharibabadi said in a statement carried by Iran’s semi-official news agency Fars.
“We have also suspended our commitments, we are not implementing them, and we are busy defending the country,” he added.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Health Ministry said that 50 people were killed and over 500 others injured in US strikes since June 27.
“Among those killed were five women and two children and teenagers under 18,” Hossein Kermanpour, head of the Health Ministry’s Public Relations and Information Centre, said on X.
Those wounded included 32 women, as well as 18 children and teenagers, Kermanpour added.
Iran targets US bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, warns war will enter more ‘destructive’ phase
Iran earlier launched strikes on United States military bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain as Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s adviser said the war would enter a more ‘aggressive’ and ‘destructive’ phase.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said that its naval forces launched drone and missile strikes on a US fleet fuel support pier at Al Ahmadi port in Kuwait and Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain.
The IRGC also claimed to have destroyed a US intelligence data centre in Bahrain, known as Batelco, as well as a US signals and communications centre in Kuwait, according to Iran’s semi-official news agency Tasnim.
Separately, recent US attacks on the Hormozgan province in southern Iran have killed “about seven to eight people”, all of whom were civilians, Ahmad Moradi, a representative for the province, told Iran’s Tasnim news agency, Al Jazeera reported on Saturday.
The report added that the attacks took place in the past two nights, with one US attack targeting one of the bridges in the province, hitting two family cars and killing six people.
The Tappeh Allaho Akbar neighbourhood in Bandar Abbas was also hit, killing a woman and leaving a one-year-old with an amputation. A driver who was supplying fuel to stations was killed in a fire.
Kuwait says oil facility hit by Iranian attack
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation said “one of the vital sites in the oil sector was subjected to repeated brutal Iranian attacks, resulting in a number of injuries and significant material losses”, according to Al Jazeera.
“The injured were provided with medical assistance and the site was evacuated, while the response to the attack is being handled in coordination with the relevant state authorities,” the statement noted, according to the country’s Kuna news agency.
US strike on water desalination plant left about 10,000 without water: Iranian official
A US strike on a water desalination plant in Iran’s southeastern coastal village of Bunji, in Hormozgan province, has left around 10,000 without water, a provincial official said on Saturday.
The attack “completely disrupted the supply of drinking water to 20 villages with a population of about 10,000 people,” Iran’s semi-official news agency Tasnim quoted the CEO of the Hormozgan Water and Wastewater Company as saying.
“These villages are facing a water shortage crisis,” added the official.
