US and Iran trade most intense strikes since ceasefire extended

According to The Guardian, the United States and Iran have exchanged their most intense strikes since a fragile ceasefire was extended last month. US airstrikes overnight killed at least fourteen people in Iran, and Tehran responded by hitting Gulf countries, in the sharpest escalation since the two sides signed a memorandum of understanding on the seventeenth of June aimed at giving negotiators room to reach a permanent truce. President Trump has declared that agreement over.

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