https://hormuz.net/tags/heu/ Recent content in HEU on Hormuz.net Hugo en-us Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hormuz.net/the-strikes-that-happened-during-the-ceasefire/ Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hormuz.net/the-strikes-that-happened-during-the-ceasefire/ <p>On Memorial Day, while Donald Trump posted that negotiations with Iran were &ldquo;proceeding nicely,&rdquo; U.S. Central Command was conducting airstrikes on Iranian territory. The contradiction was not incidental. It is the operating condition of the current ceasefire — a state of managed belligerence in which neither side has agreed on what stopping the war actually means.</p> <p>CENTCOM spokesman Captain Tim Hawkins confirmed Monday that U.S. forces struck missile launch sites and Iranian boats in southern Iran that were, per the statement, &ldquo;attempting to emplace mines.&rdquo; The justification was self-defense. The framing was restraint. The reality is that strikes under a nominally active ceasefire have become routine enough that the announcement generated less alarm than the diplomatic commentary surrounding it.</p>