ISLAMABAD: Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Saturday accused the United States of repeatedly violating a memorandum of understanding signed by the presidents of the two countries, saying the alleged breaches showed that US President Donald Trump’s signature was “utterly worthless”.
“The repeated breaches of the agreement by the Great Satan [the US] regarding the MOU signed by the Presidents of Iran and the US have once again laid bare a fundamental truth: the signature of the US President is utterly worthless and devoid of credibility,” Khamenei said in a statement on X.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said on Saturday that Tehran has suspended its commitments to a recent memorandum of understanding (MoU) after “the US violated its commitments”.
“The US has violated and suspended all its commitments within the framework of the Islamabad MoU,” Gharibabadi said in a statement carried by Iran’s semi-official news agency Fars.
“We have also suspended our commitments, we are not implementing them, and we are busy defending the country,” he added.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Health Ministry said that 50 people were killed and over 500 others injured in US strikes since June 27.
“Among those killed were five women and two children and teenagers under 18,” Hossein Kermanpour, head of the Health Ministry’s Public Relations and Information Centre, said on X.
Those wounded included 32 women, as well as 18 children and teenagers, Kermanpour added.
Iran earlier launched strikes on United States military bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain as Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s adviser said the war would enter a more ‘aggressive’ and ‘destructive’ phase.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said that its naval forces launched drone and missile strikes on a US fleet fuel support pier at Al Ahmadi port in Kuwait and Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain.
The IRGC also claimed to have destroyed a US intelligence data centre in Bahrain, known as Batelco, as well as a US signals and communications centre in Kuwait, according to Iran’s semi-official news agency Tasnim.
Separately, recent US attacks on the Hormozgan province in southern Iran have killed “about seven to eight people”, all of whom were civilians, Ahmad Moradi, a representative for the province, told Iran’s Tasnim news agency, Al Jazeera reported on Saturday.
The report added that the attacks took place in the past two nights, with one US attack targeting one of the bridges in the province, hitting two family cars and killing six people.
The Tappeh Allaho Akbar neighbourhood in Bandar Abbas was also hit, killing a woman and leaving a one-year-old with an amputation. A driver who was supplying fuel to stations was killed in a fire.
