US strikes Iran in response to attack on cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz

The US military has attacked Iran in response to an Iranian drone strike on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, with each country accusing the other of violating terms of a ceasefire agreed on last week.

US Central Command said aircraft struck missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites, later publishing a grainy black-and-white video of an explosion labelled "unclassified." A US official reported the operation had concluded.

Iran said a projectile struck the area around a pier in Sirik in southern Iran, but did not provide details about what may have been hit.

Elsewhere, however, there were signs of progress in ending the four-month-old conflict, as Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. 

'VIOLENCE WILL BE MET WITH VIOLENCE,' VANCE SAYS

President Donald Trump blamed Thursday's attack on a cargo ship on Iran and said it violated last week's interim agreement.

"The unwarranted aggression against commercial shipping by Iranian forces clearly violated the ceasefire," US Central Command said in its statement announcing strikes, which it called "a powerful response to yesterday’s attack on a commercial ship that was transiting the Strait of Hormuz."

The US military said it would continue to provide "safe passage coordination and support" to commercial vessels transiting the strait.

Vice President JD Vance, once seen as a sceptic on US intervention in Iran but now a Trump administration point person on the conflict, said the Americans have honoured the ceasefire deal, also known as a memorandum of understanding.

"Iran signed a ceasefire agreement. We have honoured it. If they have disagreements about how the MOU is being applied, they can pick up the phone. But violence will be met with violence," Vance said on X.