Trump Threatens to ‘Blow Up’ U.S. Ally Oman Over Strait of Hormuz
TIME has reached out to the White House for comment.
Trump “is trying to prove he is not ‘soft’ on Iran to placate his critics, but such unpredictability puts the negotiations in jeopardy, especially considering how little trust Iranian negotiators have in the U.S. process,” William Figueroa, an assistant professor of international relations at the University of Groningen, tells TIME.
New attacks
The U.S. military carried out overnight strikes on a military site in Iran’s Bandar Abbas, a U.S. official told Reuters on Wednesday. U.S. forces had shot down four Iranian attack drones that threatened the Strait of Hormuz, the official said, and the facility, a ground control station, was preparing to launch a fifth drone. The official described the strikes as “purely defensive, and intended to maintain the cease-fire.”
