U.S. and Iran exchange intense new attacks after Trump says ceasefire is 'over'

U.S. and Iran exchange intense new attacks after Trump says ceasefire is 'over'.

The United States and Iran traded new attacks overnight and into Thursday, intensifying an exchange that threatens to collapse their agreement to end the war.

The American military said it hit around 90 targets in airstrikes across Iran, after President Donald Trump said he considered the tenuous ceasefire between the two countries over following Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials reported another set of attacks hours later Thursday morning, which the U.S. did not immediately acknowledge.

Tehran retaliated with attacks on U.S. allies across the Middle East -- a wave of strikes that sparked alerts in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and hours later in Jordan -- as the two sides accused each other of violating the terms of their interim deal.

The U.S. military said it struck "approximately 90 Iranian military targets including air defense systems, coastal surveillance assets, missile and drone storage sites, naval capabilities, and military logistics infrastructure along Iran's coastline."

Iranian state media reported multiple explosions in cities across the country's south, and the Foreign Ministry denounced the strikes as a "grave war crime," saying they targeted civilian infrastructure including two railway bridges.

Later Thursday, a local official said a U.S. airstrike hit the perimeter of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, according to the state-run IRNA news agency. The region's deputy governor said the strike was one of several that occurred around 4:30 a.m. ET, hours after U.S. Central Command said it had ended its attacks on Iran.

At least 14 people were killed and another 78 wounded in the two days of U.S. attacks, the Iranian Health Ministry said Thursday in its first overall count of casualties. There was no immediate response to the Iranian accusations from the Pentagon.

This time, Iran's retaliation also targeted Qatar and Jordan, the latter of which said it shot down eight Iranian missiles at around 7 a.m. ET Thursday.

The president dismissed the ongoing peace efforts and labeled Iranian leaders "scum," but said he would allow negotiations to continue and did not think this new fighting would result in "long-term" military action. Asked why Tehran would attack commercial vessels amid the ongoing ceasefire, Trump responded, "because they're sort of crazy, to be honest with you ... They're a little bit out of control, but they wanna make a deal badly."