US carries out another round of ‘minor’ strikes on Iran, Trump says

The president’s announcement comes days after an earlier attack on Iran was made public, and as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict have accelerated

Donald Trump has said the US military on Friday carried out a new round of limited strikes on Iran, targeting an air defence system, describing the action as “minor.”

Iranian state media reported the sound of two explosions in the Suza area of Qeshm Island, which is in the strait of Hormuz, the crucial waterway for oil shipments that has been disrupted since the beginning of the US war on Iran in February.

In an exchange with reporters on Friday, Trump said “they built a little bit of an anti-aircraft device and we knocked it out in about 15 minutes, maybe five”.