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 ...
![Iran's Deputy FM Abbas Araqchi told reporters that "we are in no way optimistic about [the West world powers]-we are pessimistic- and we have told them that we cannot trust you" (Courtesy of Press TV)](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/araqchi.jpg?itok=hpBlqYLT "Iran's Deputy FM Abbas Araqchi told reporters that \"we are in no way optimistic about [the West world powers]-we are pessimistic- and we have told them that we cannot trust you\" (Courtesy of Press TV)")
![Rouhani insists that Iran's nuclear program will only be used for peaceful energy production. [presstv]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iran/rouhani-redline.jpg?itok=JZLy23uV "Rouhani insists that Iran's nuclear program will only be used for peaceful energy production. [presstv]")
![Iranians gathering amid rubble in the Iranian western city of Borazjan, on November 28, 2013, after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck the country. [Mohammad Salehinia/AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Egypt/452372217.jpg?itok=VR2mpifh "Iranians gathering amid rubble in the Iranian western city of Borazjan, on November 28, 2013, after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck the country. [Mohammad Salehinia/AFP]")
![Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Reza Najafi waits ahead of the Board of Governors meeting at the UN atomic agency headquarters in Vienna on November 28, 2013. [Alexander Klien/AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/452338737.jpg?itok=nLz3NYEL "Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Reza Najafi waits ahead of the Board of Governors meeting at the UN atomic agency headquarters in Vienna on November 28, 2013. [Alexander Klien/AFP]")
![Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/143660567.jpg?itok=eRDxqLg1 "Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt [AFP]")
![Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gives a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on November 27, 2013. [Atta Kenare/AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/000_Nic6269769.jpg?itok=X86BKnPM "Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gives a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on November 27, 2013. [Atta Kenare/AFP]")
![US Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a speech during a press conference at the CICG (Centre International de Conferences Geneve) after talks over Iran's nuclear programme in Geneva on November 24, 2013. [AFP/Alexander Klein]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/000_Hkg9224331.jpg?itok=-ufczldB "US Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a speech during a press conference at the CICG (Centre International de Conferences Geneve) after talks over Iran's nuclear programme in Geneva on November 24, 2013. [AFP/Alexander Klein]")
![Members of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front in Syria. [presstv.ir]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/shamsara20130817042224960.jpg?itok=JFKQOSqd "Members of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front in Syria. [presstv.ir]")
![Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addresses the parliament in Tehran on November 27, 2013. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/452195147.jpg?itok=ArQ3BzXE "Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addresses the parliament in Tehran on November 27, 2013. [Getty Images]")
![US president: America can't commit itself to endless cycle of violence; senators weigh sanctions legislation that would respect 6-month deadline. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/451643619.jpg?itok=kBE6uA8m "US president: America can't commit itself to endless cycle of violence; senators weigh sanctions legislation that would respect 6-month deadline. [Getty Images]")
