Iran Says Ceasefire Broken After U.S. 'Love Tap,' IRGC to Launch Attacks

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized on American self-defense strikes in the Strait of Hormuz to announce the collapse of a fragile ceasefire, claiming the U.S. had inflicted “significant damage” on its forces while its own attacks somehow caused none.

Central Command described intercepting unprovoked Iranian missiles, drones, and small boats targeting American naval assets, then destroying the Iranian platforms responsible. President Trump dismissed the exchange as “just a love tap,” telling ABC News the ceasefire remained “in effect” despite the chaos. He had already announced on Truth Social that three U.S. destroyers suffered no damage while Iranian boats “went to the bottom of the Sea, quickly and efficiently.”

The IRGC spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaqari pointed instead to the American blockade of Iranian commerce, accusing Washington of targeting “an Iranian oil tanker sailing from Iran’s coastal waters in the Jask region” and another vessel near the UAE port of Fujairah. CENTCOM confirmed it disabled two Iran-flagged vessels as part of that blockade, which Trump has explicitly said falls outside the ceasefire.

This latest flare-up arrives after months of Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign that has eliminated dozens of senior Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Trump has openly complained that negotiating is nearly impossible because “nobody knows who’s in charge.” Yet Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in Rome on Friday that Iran is reviewing a fresh American peace proposal and that Washington expects an answer the same day: “We’ll see what the response entails. The hope is it’s something that can put us into a serious process of negotiation.”

The IRGC’s statement also alleged that three American ships “hastily” fled the strait after sustaining “significant damage,” a claim the Pentagon has not corroborated. Meanwhile Iran has spent the war bombing Gulf neighbors and trying to choke commercial traffic through Hormuz, the very behavior that prompted the U.S. counter-blockade.

Whether Tehran’s belligerent response is theater for a collapsing regime or genuine preparation for renewed attacks, the contradiction is glaring: one side calls a limited naval exchange a broken truce, while the other treats it as enforcement of the status quo. The next hours will reveal whether Rubio’s hoped-for “serious process” can survive the IRGC’s threats.

Original reporting: Breitbart News.