June 11th, 2026 - 07:37 GMT
ALBAWABA - US and Iran exchange strikes across the Middle East as the shaky ceasefire continues to disintegrate with each rocket and bomb; the war, it seems, is officially back on. This morning, Jordan was hit with 20 Iranian ballistic missiles targeting the Muwaffaq Salti air base in Al-Azraq; this was following earlier Iranian strikes on Bahrain and Kuwait. The war restarted after Trump said that Iran “took too long ...
![US Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, deputy Iranian negotiators Majid Ravanchi and Abbas Araghchi seated between them against the wall at a meeting in New York in September. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iran/iran_geneva.jpg?itok=rcFX6zf9 "US Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, deputy Iranian negotiators Majid Ravanchi and Abbas Araghchi seated between them against the wall at a meeting in New York in September. [AFP]")
![Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/187646800.jpg?itok=kMyVWVIw "Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi [Getty Images]")
![Iran's Rouhani expected to search for new relationship with US diplomats. [us-iran]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iran/rouhani.jpg?itok=cUoLgTvk "Iran's Rouhani expected to search for new relationship with US diplomats. [us-iran]")
![Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gestures towards his Italian counterpart Emma Bonino as they give a joint press conference in Tehran on December 22, 2013. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/458836871_1.jpg?itok=6m0-boWI "Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gestures towards his Italian counterpart Emma Bonino as they give a joint press conference in Tehran on December 22, 2013. [Getty Images]")
![Former Iranian Intelligence Officer Heydar Moslehi believes that the nuclear deal has given the U.S. the "upper hand to control [Iran's] ideas in the direction it wants" (Atta Kenare/AFP)](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/iran_intelligence_moslehi.jpg?itok=JTz7bUUZ "Former Iranian Intelligence Officer Heydar Moslehi believes that the nuclear deal has given the U.S. the \"upper hand to control [Iran's] ideas in the direction it wants\" (Atta Kenare/AFP)")
![President Barack Obama urged Congress Friday not to enact new sanctions on Iran in the near future. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/91308190.jpg?itok=vPcEPhAh "President Barack Obama urged Congress Friday not to enact new sanctions on Iran in the near future. [Getty Images]")
![Fresh expert-level talks between Iran and six major world powers have entered an unscheduled third day in Geneva. [presstv.ir]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/338999_Geneva-talks.jpg?itok=55H5YDx8 "Fresh expert-level talks between Iran and six major world powers have entered an unscheduled third day in Geneva. [presstv.ir]")
![Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens to International Peace envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi during a joint press conference in Tehran on October 26, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/185923014.jpg?itok=iLTgtY3k "Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens to International Peace envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi during a joint press conference in Tehran on October 26, 2013. [AFP]")
