Iran calls US strikes a 'flagrant violation' of the ceasefire. Live updates

The U.S. military launched new strikes on Iran on Monday, threatening to shatter a 7-week ceasefire and derailing negotiations in Qatar just days after President Donald Trump said an agreement was almost completed.

U.S. Central Command said it carried out "self-defense strikes" in southern Iran "to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces." "Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines," Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for the command, said in a statement.

Explosions were reported in southern Iran early Tuesday morning local time, hours before indirect talks on a proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war were set to take place in Qatar. Iran called the strikes a "flagrant violation" of the ceasefire and said it "will leave no act of aggression unanswered."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters hours after the strikes that Trump is "either going to make a good deal or no deal" and that might take "a few more days" for negotiators to achieve. Rubio said the Strait of Hormuz has "to be open," calling Iran's control over the key waterway "unlawful" and "illegal."

Attacks on commercial vessels have continued in the Strait since the ceasefire began in early April. On Tuesday, May 26, an oil tanker sailing through waters east of Oman's capital of Muscat, which lies east of the Strait, reported an "external explosion," according to a warning from the UK Maritime Trade Operations Center.

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