Middle East crisis live: US launches fresh strikes on Iran after days-long pause in attacks

US announces attacks early on Thursday, as experts say strikes carried out by both sides in previous day increase risk of return to all-out war US-Saudi strikes in Iraq push region into ‘uncharted territory’, analysts warnThe US military has hit the south-western Iranian city of Abadan as well as Qeshm Island, Iranian media is saying, citing regional authorities.The US attacked “a point near Qeshm” at 4am local time (0030 GMT), the deputy governor of the southern Hormozga