US President Donald Trump has said the military could end its Iran offensive in two to three weeks and will shift responsibility for the Strait of Hormuz to countries that rely on it for oil and shipping.
Trump said the US “will not have anything to do with” what happens next in the vital waterway that has been closed by Iran. Instead, he told reporters on Tuesday, the responsibility for keeping the strait open will rest with countries that rely on it.
The Israeli military said it carried out strikes on Wednesday on Tehran, where Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported blasts in several areas.
A brief military statement said Israeli forces had “completed a wide-scale wave of strikes targeting infrastructure sites of the Iranian terror regime in Tehran.”
Israel also said on Wednesday it struck a plant supplying Iran’s regime with fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, to allegedly use in a chemical weapons programme. Iran acknowledged the strike on Tofigh Daru factory, but insisted it only supplied “hospital drugs” used in medical operations.
The strike happened Tuesday, both the Israelis and the Iranians said.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted a picture of the factory in Tehran, writing on X: “The war criminals in Israel are now openly and unashamedly bombing pharmaceutical companies.”
