U.S. says it struck Iranian military sites, Tehran responds with air base attack

Key points

• The U.S. said it struck Iranian ​military sites at the weekend and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Monday ⁠(June 1, 2026) it had targeted a U.S. base in response, the latest in a series of exchanges amid negotiations to end the three-month-old war.
• The strikes on Iran’s Gulf coast were in response to “aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a U.S. MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters,” the U.S. Central Command said in a post on X.
• “U.S. fighter aircraft swiftly responded by eliminating Iranian air defences, a ground control station, ⁠and two one-way attack drones that posed clear threats to ships transiting regional ⁠waters,” CENTCOM said, adding it will continue to protect U.S. assets and interests during the ongoing ceasefire.
• West Asia war LIVE updates Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Monday it had targeted an air base used by the U.S. for ​an...