US strikes Iran again, Trump to deliver ‘comments’ at White House later today
The US military said it targeted Iranian military facilities after Iran attacked three US destroyers transiting the Strait of Hormuz. President Donald Trump called the US strikes against Iran a "love tap."
US President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks in the Rose Garden at the White House on Friday around 12 p.m. Washington time (1700 UTC), according to Reuters.
The news agency said the president’s schedule released by the White House didn’t say what the remarks would be about, dw.com reports.
The announcement came as Iran and the United States traded strikes overnight, and Iran attacked the United Arab Emirates.
The UAE said its air defenses were engaging with Iranian missile and drone attacks at 7 a.m. local time (3:00 GMT/UST). There have been few details so far about the targets of the attacks.
Flight tracking data on FlightRadar24 and Dubai airport flight information showed planes landing and taking off around 8 a.m. this morning.
The attacks on the UAE came after the US and Iran traded strikes Thursday night into Friday around the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran says US violated the ceasefire, and it returned fire but says the situation is now back to normal.
The US said that three of its destroyers were attacked, but they weren’t hit, while Iran said the Iranian strikes inflicted “significant damage.”
The prominent OSINT Technical account on X posted that NASA’s satellite fire map was “picking up multiple fires” in the Strait of Hormuz after the fighting between Iran and the US. It is unclear what these are.
