ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Sunday that Iran’s “fierce strikes” on US military bases across the region have left US leaders “in a state of desperation,” amid renewed military confrontations between the two sides.

Addressing parliament at the start of Sunday’s session, Ghalibaf said that “the fierce strikes by the Islamic Republic of Iran's military forces on US bases have left the country's leaders in a state of desperation.”

Iran launched airstrikes targeting US bases across the Middle East, including the Kurdistan Region, Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan, following renewed military escalation between the two sides on Tuesday evening, when US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced it was targeting IRGC targets in Iran following alleged attempts by the force to attack commercial ships.

“The period of proportionate responses has ended,” the parliamentary speaker added.

The confrontation escalated further overnight, with CENTCOM saying Saturday that it had targeted three Iranian tankers in retaliation for Iran reportedly targeting two US Navy ships.

Hours later, Iran responded by hitting “three oil tankers illegally passing through the Strait of Hormuz, and three [other] vessels” belonging to the US in other areas.

Also on Sunday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had targeted a US naval drone that allegedly attempted to enter a “protected area” of the Strait of Hormuz.

The IRGC said it continued to monitor US military movements in the area and warned that any act of aggression would be “dealt with decisively.”

The recent escalation comes as little progress has been made in bringing the war to a conclusive halt. Despite Trump’s insistence that the Strait of Hormuz is open for transit, shipping data shows that commercial passage through the strategic waterway remains significantly below pre-conflict levels amid ongoing Iranian restrictions.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday said that Tehran is ready to return to the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with Washington in July, which saw the temporary reopening of the strait before the US accused Iran of breaching its terms by targeting vessels failing to comply with Iranian-imposed shipping routes.