The United States and Iran resumed strikes after an attempt to open the Strait of Hormuz. What the media is writing
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The United States and Iran have resumed military operations in the Persian Gulf. The US military repelled the attacks while trying to bring two ships through the Strait of Hormuz in accordance with the instructions of US President Donald Trump. At the same time, Iran attacked an oil refinery and a port in the UAE. How the media reacts to the violated truce is in the Izvestia digest.
Bloomberg: The United States and Iran exchanged blows in the Persian Gulf
On May 4, the conflict between the United States and Iran escalated, which also involved the UAE, prompting calls for renewed strikes on Iranian targets and calling into question the fate of the four-week truce. The US military repelled attacks by Iranian drones, missiles and armed small boats, ensuring the passage of American-flagged vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. At the same time, the UAE reported the interception of Iranian cruise missiles and blamed an Iranian drone for a major fire in the port of Fujairah, as a result of which three people were hospitalized.
Bloomberg
The violence has undermined the truce, which has been largely respected since it took effect on April 8. It also prompted calls for the United States and its ally Israel to resume attacks on Iran after a campaign that previously hit thousands of targets, killed Iran's supreme leader and other senior officials, and closed the vital Strait of Hormuz, leading to a sharp rise in global energy prices.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Iran's strike on the UAE was tantamount to "announcing the resumption of Iran's war against the allies of the United States and Israel in the region." At a separate briefing on Monday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said he would "reserve the right of the White House to declare violations" of the ceasefire. In Iran, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that negotiations with the Americans are "progressing," but the United States and the UAE "must beware of being dragged back into the quagmire by ill-wishers."
Associated Press: The United States is fighting to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
The US military said it opened fire on Iranian forces and sank six small boats targeting civilian vessels in preparation for reopening the Strait of Hormuz. According to them, two American-flagged merchant ships successfully passed through the strait as part of a new initiative by US President Donald Trump.
Associated Press
The destruction of Iranian dominance over the Strait would ease global economic concerns and deprive Iran of an important source of influence. But such efforts also risk resuming the full-scale hostilities that erupted after the first U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran on February 28, forcing it to close the strait.
Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of the US Central Command, told reporters that US forces had successfully opened a passage through the strait free of Iranian mines. He said Iran had fired several cruise missiles, drones and small boats at civilian vessels protected by the US military.
Al Jazeera: UAE accuses Iran of attacks on oil refinery
The United Arab Emirates has accused Iran of attacking the country with missiles and drones, setting fire to an oil refinery in the eastern emirate of Fujairah and injuring three Indian citizens. The strikes were the first attacks on the UAE since Iran and the United States agreed to a cease-fire on April 8.
Al Jazeera
The UAE's defense ministry said its air defense systems "repelled" 12 ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles and four drones launched from Iran during the day. The country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned in the strongest terms "the renewed terrorist, unprovoked attacks by Iran directed against civilian facilities and structures in the country."
Iran has not given any official comments. However, the state-owned IRIB television company, citing a well-informed military source, reported that Iran "did not have a pre-planned plan to attack the mentioned oil facilities." The source attributed these incidents to "US military adventurism aimed at creating a passage for the illegal transit of ships through the forbidden waterways of the Strait of Hormuz." The source added that "the US military must be held accountable for this."
Reuters: U.S. intelligence indicates minor damage to Iran's nuclear program
According to US intelligence estimates, the time it takes Iran to build a nuclear weapon has not changed since last summer, when analysts estimated that the US-Israeli attack postponed this deadline by up to a year, three sources familiar with the situation said. Assessments of Tehran's nuclear program generally remain unchanged even after two months of war, which Trump launched, in particular, in order to prevent the Islamic Republic from developing a nuclear bomb.
Reuters
The latest U.S. and Israeli attacks, which began on February 28, have focused on conventional military targets, but Israel has also targeted a number of important nuclear facilities. The immutability of deadlines suggests that a significant slowdown in the development of Tehran's nuclear program may require the destruction or withdrawal of Iran's remaining reserves of highly enriched uranium.
According to two sources, American intelligence agencies had concluded even before the start of the 12-day war in June that Iran would probably be able to produce enough weapons-grade uranium to build a bomb in about three to six months. After the US strikes on the Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan nuclear complexes in June, this deadline was shifted by about nine months to a year.
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