US says it struck Iranian military sites, Tehran responds with air base attack

“By Yomna Ehab DUBAI, June 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. said it struck Iranian military sites at the weekend and Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Monday it had targeted a U.S. base in response, the latest in a series of exchangesamid 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.

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