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Iran warned Gulf states Tuesday that they bear responsibility for preventing US and Israeli attacks against the country.
Iran's Foreign Ministry issued a statement reiterating that "all countries in the region — particularly those along the southern shores of the Persian Gulf — have a legal and moral responsibility to prevent the use of their territory or facilities to plan, organize or carry out hostile actions against Iran by the United States and Israel."
The statement came after Iran launched retaliatory strikes against major US military installations in the Middle East following American airstrikes on Iranian territory.
The warning signals that Iran will not stand by if US military bases in the region are used to facilitate attacks against it.
The US struck multiple sites inside Iran on Tuesday after a US Army Apache helicopter was shot down near the Strait of Hormuz on June 8, saying it was acting in self-defense. Iran responded with its own counterstrikes. According to Reuters, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it struck 21 targets across the Gulf region, including Al-Azraq Air Base in Jordan. The IRGC also said it launched drone attacks against the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, warning of "a stronger response" if hostilities continued.
US eyes Iranian assets to fund Gulf states' reconstruction
Meanwhile, the US has been pursuing diplomatic moves that include using frozen Iranian assets to fund reconstruction and recovery efforts in Gulf states damaged by the conflict.
Reuters and the Financial Times reported Saturday that the plan emerged shortly after Mohsen Rezaei, a senior military adviser to Iran's supreme leader, told CNN on Friday that unfreezing at least $24 billion (37.4 trillion won) of the roughly $100 billion (156 trillion won) in Iranian assets frozen under US sanctions was a core condition for any end-of-war agreement Iran would accept.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has directed his team to calculate the damages Iran has inflicted on US allies in the Persian Gulf region during the war, according to the reports.
A senior Trump administration official told the FT that "the Treasury will use every tool available to ensure that Iranian assets can be used to support the reconstruction and recovery of damages caused by Iran going forward."
The official added that "the Treasury will further examine whether Iranian assets can also be used to support recovery from past damages."
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