Jun 1, 2026 NTD News
The United States said Monday that it bombed radar and drone sites in Iran after Tehran shot down an American drone over the weekend. Iran then said it launched a strike of its own, and Kuwait reported incoming fire.
The U.S. military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said it carried out the strikes in Iran on Saturday and Sunday around the city of Geruk and on Qeshm Island.
“The measured and deliberate strikes occurred … in response to aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a U.S. MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters,” Central Command said.
“U.S. fighter aircraft swiftly responded by eliminating Iranian air defenses, a ground control station, and two one-way attack drones that posed clear threats to ships transiting regional waters.”
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Monday it had targeted an air base used by the U.S. in response to an attack on southern Iran.
It did not identify the base, but the CENTCOM said on Monday that the U.S. forces successfully intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles targeting American forces based in Kuwait.
Kuwait is home to U.S. Army Central, the Mideast forward command for the Army. While the U.S. Air Force no longer flies the MQ-1 Predator, the U.S. Army still does.
The U.S. and Iran have sporadically exchanged strikes since a ceasefire took effect in early April, while Pakistan has been mediating efforts to secure a more durable agreement. An exchange of strikes last Thursday was described in similar terms by each side.
Iran Deal Still Undefined
President Donald Trump huddled with top officials in the White House Situation Room on Friday to make a “final determination” on approving a deal with Iran, but has yet to decide on whether to move ahead with a deal to extend the ceasefire and reopen the strait.
If secured, a deal would restore commerce throughout the Strait of Hormuz and impose a time limit on negotiations regarding Iran’s nuclear program as part of a new military operation called Project Freedom.
Trump expressed optimism about the talks in a post on his Truth Social platform early Monday in Washington.
“Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us,” he wrote. “Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end — It always does!”
However, Trump also said it was tougher for him to negotiate with Iran with all the political commentary surrounding the conflict.
“… it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively ‘chirping,’ at levels never seen before, over and over again, that I should move faster, or move slower, or go to war, or not go to war, or whatever,” the president wrote on Truth Social.