US launches strikes on Iran for a second day after Trump says agreement to end the war is ‘over’

According to The Guardian, the United States carried out a second day of strikes on Iran, hitting three locations after President Donald Trump declared that an interim agreement to end the war was over. Iranian state media reported explosions late Wednesday in the port city of Bandar Abbas on the strait of Hormuz, in the southern coastal city of Sirik, and in the south-western province of Bushehr, home to Iran's nuclear power plant complex. The new wave of strikes followed the targeting of three tankers in the strait of Hormuz the previous day.

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