President Donald Trump told Americans to “sit back and relax” as the US and Tehran exchanged fresh strikes.
“Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end – It always does!” he wrote on Truth Social on Monday, while insisting Iran “really wants to make a deal”.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said it targeted an air base used in a US attack on a telecoms tower on Sirik Island. Kuwait also reported intercepting missiles on Monday.
The statement comes after the US said it conducted “self-defence strikes” on Iranian radar and drone control sites over the weekend in response to “aggressive” actions from Tehran.
US Central Command said in a post on X that Iran had shot down a US MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters.
The two countries have continued to trade strikes in the past week after failing to sign off an agreement to extend their fragile ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping.
In Lebanon, Israeli troops pushed beyond the Litani river and seized the Crusader-era Beaufort fortress in their deepest invasion of the neighbouring country in over 25 years.
