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US, Iran engage in tit-for-tat attacks
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Iran and the US engaged in tit-for-tat clashes this Thursday. Tehran said it fired on an American army base in the region, while the US claimed it had struck Iran’s Bandar Abbas port. Later in the day, Axios reported that Washington and Tehran had reached an agreement to extend their ceasefire by 60 days, but that President Donald Trump has yet to approve it.
Iran and the US engaged in tit-for-tat clashes this Thursday. Tehran said it fired on an American army base in the region, while the US claimed it had struck Iran’s Bandar Abbas port. Later in the day, Axios reported that Washington and Tehran had reached an agreement to extend their ceasefire by 60 days, but that President Donald Trump has yet to approve it. In an attempt to speed up the negotiations, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Ishaq Dar, is set to fly to Washington to meet his US counterpart, Marco Rubio.