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Iran live updates: Kuwait and Bahrain condemn 'heinous' Iranian aerial strikes

Both countries claimed Iran attacked them on Sunday with missiles and drones.

Last Updated: June 28, 2026, 7:27 AM EDT

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.

Delegations from the United States and Iran meet last weekend at the Bürgenstock resort in Switzerland, where they entered negotiations aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed last week by both countries.

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Iran claims sole responsibility for restoring Strait of Hormuz shipping traffic

Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said on Sunday that only Iran is responsible for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and restoring shipping traffic to pre-war levels.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi looks down at notes during a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart during their joint press conference following a meeting in Baghdad on July 28, 2026.
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"These arrangements are being adopted and implemented, and responsibility for them rests with the Islamic Republic of Iran," Araghchi said during a news conference alongside his Iraqi counterpart on Sunday. "No other body or country bears any responsibility in this regard."

The minister's comments followed U.S. strikes on Iranian targets, which came after officials in Washington accused Tehran of targeting a tanker in the strait. Both the United States and Iran have claimed in recent weeks to have control over the strait.

This aerial photograph shows boats anchored off Oman's northern Musandam Peninsula near the Strait of Hormuz on June 27, 2026.
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Araghchi added on Sunday that attempts "to adopt new or separate arrangements" would "only complicate the situation, delay the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and raise the level of tension, as we witnessed over the past two nights with incidents in the Strait of Hormuz that led to increased tensions and clashes."

-ABC News' Rashid Haddou

5:22 AM EDT

Bahrain, Kuwait condemn Iranian aerial attacks following US strikes on Iran

Kuwait and Bahrain came under attack from "hostile" Iranian missiles and drones early on Sunday, the two countries said following fresh U.S. strikes against Iran.

Smoke rises from a residential building, which according to the Bahraini Interior Ministry, was hit by an Iranian drone, in Muharraq, Bahrain, June 28, 2026.
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"Kuwaiti air defenses are currently responding to hostile missile and drone attacks," Kuwait’s army wrote on social media. "Everyone is urged to adhere to the safety and security instructions issued by the relevant authorities."

It provided no further details on the location of the attacks or any damage caused.

The country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement expressing its "condemnation and strongest denunciation of the repeated heinous Iranian aggressions against the State of Kuwait" and called the attack a "flagrant violation of its sovereignty."

In Bahrain, the Defence Force said its air defence systems had intercepted and destroyed a number of Iranian missile and drone attacks targeting civilians in the kingdom.

Bahrain civil defence and rescue personnel work in a residential building, which according to the Bahraini Interior Ministry, was hit by an Iranian drone, in Muharraq, Bahrain, June 28, 2026.
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Air-raid sirens went off twice according to the interior ministry, calling on residents to "remain calm and head to the nearest safe place."

Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement later condemning what it called "a dangerous escalation that reveals that what Tehran is doing is not a passing act, nor an isolated incident, but rather a deliberate approach and a systematic pattern of repeated aggression against the sovereignty of the kingdom, and the security of its citizens and residents."

-ABC News’ Ayat Al-Tawy and Rashid Haddou

Jun 27, 2026, 11:33 PM EDT

Iran fires missiles and drones at Kuwait and Bahrain: US official

Iran has launched multiple missiles and drones towards neighboring countries, including Bahrain and Kuwait, a U.S. official told ABC News.

The official said that the situation is still unfolding, but that at this time there are no reported U.S. casualties or major impacts or damage to U.S. locations.

The attacks come after Iranian officials said hours ago that it would retaliate and target U.S. bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in response to the U.S. retaliatory strikes earlier Saturday. U.S. officials said those strikes were prompted by Iran’s earlier drone strike on an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.

-ABC News' Luis Martinez

Jun 27, 2026, 7:39 PM EDT

Trump threatens to 'militarily complete the job' in Iran if attacks don’t stop

President Donald Trump responded to the most recent Iranian attack, which led the U.S. to retaliate for the second time since the memorandum of understanding was signed, by threatening to “militarily complete the job” if Iran doesn’t stop striking.

He said that Iran violated the ceasefire “again.” He had previously said that Iran’s first strike was a “foolish violation of the ceasefire agreement.”

President Donald Trump speaks during an event on quantum computing in the Oval Office of the White House, June 22, 2026 in Washington.
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"United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN! It is very possible that they will never learn!” Trump wrote in a post on social media Saturday evening.”

“There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started,” he wrote, adding, "If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!"

-ABC News' Isabella Murray

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