President Donald Trump said early Sunday that US aircraft have struck Iranian missile and drone storage sites and coastal radar installations, accusing Iran of violating the ceasefire. Trump warned that if the US leaves "reasonableness" behind, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist.
President Donald Trump announced early Sunday that US aircraft had struck Iranian missile and drone storage sites and coastal radar installations, attributing the strikes to what he described as yet another violation of the ceasefire by Iran. In a statement posted to his Truth Social platform and relayed by the intelligence desk's monitored channels, Trump said: "US aircraft have just struck Iranian missile and drone storage sites and coastal radar sites, for violating the ceasefire, again!" He added that Iran "may never learn" and warned that if the US becomes less reasonable and decides to "complete the mission militarily," the Islamic Republic of Iran would cease to exist. The announcement, at around 02:00 Jerusalem, followed a sequence of US strikes that The Zioneer has tracked since 00:29 Jerusalem earlier the same night. The first reports overnight described explosions near the port city of Sirik in southern Iran, followed by a series of escalating reports: a third round of blasts in the Sirik area, then confirmation from Israeli security analyst Yair Goldblatt that an IRGC naval base and radar installations had been hit in five US strikes, and subsequently a Hebrew-language security source reporting additional strikes in southern Iran. By 00:29 Jerusalem, the US military had confirmed that fighter jets struck Iranian military surveillance infrastructure, communications systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and naval mine-laying capabilities—tying the operation to Iran's earlier attack on an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. At that same published time, Iranian reports specified additional strikes on Qeshm Island and the port cities of Bandar Lengeh and Bandar Kong. The stated scope of the strikes has thus widened from initial unverified explosion reports to an official US military confirmation of multi-site strikes. Trump's latest statement—directly claiming strikes on missile and drone storage and coastal radar—appears to align with those confirmed categories but has not yet been independently corroborated by the Pentagon or Iranian sources in monitored channels. As The Zioneer reported on June 10, Trump has previously signaled an escalation of strikes to include power plants and bridges, and on June 23, he stated that the US can operate freely over Iranian airspace. The broader context includes a breakdown of a US-imposed ceasefire, with Trump publicly accusing Iran of violating it with a drone strike on ships in the Strait of Hormuz on June 26. It remains unclear whether Sunday's strikes represent a new, unilateral US action or are part of the ongoing operational tempo. The White House has not issued a separate statement, and no independent confirmation from the Pentagon or Iranian sources has yet emerged in the monitored channels.
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