This “truce” sure is violent!

One person was killed and several injured on Wednesday at Kuwait International Airport, where flights were suspended following an Iranian drone attack.

The fatality was the first in a Gulf state since Donald Trump and Tehran established a fragile ceasefire nearly two months ago. It’s worth noting that for a time, the US military did run a small operation out of the airport.

Iran also attacked Bahrain with missiles and drones. Local authorities complained the projectiles veered towards civilian infrastructure, while the IRGC maintained that attacks targeted only military sites, in this case the US Fifth Fleet/NAVCENT headquarters in the country.

The drama came as the Pentagon described an operation to intercept a “wave of Iranian drones” dispatched “to attack US forces in Kuwait.” That effort, CENTCOM said, was thwarted. “Air defenses successfully downed multiple drones and ensured no American personnel or assets were harmed,” the US military said, in a short statement.

In a barrage of condemnatory press releases and official communications, Bahrain accused Iran of persisting in a “systematic hostile approach” to regional affairs and Kuwait denounced the Guards for perpetuating a “dangerous” cycle of “escalations” and “blatantly violating” international law by “targeting civilian facilities.”

I’d be remiss not to mention that those countries host military facilities for a nation whose leader recently declared “a whole civilization will die tonight,” while menacing Iran with existential attacks on bridges, fuel depots, water sources and other vital civilian installations and utilities.

That doesn’t excuse the IRGC’s haphazard missile and drone swarms, but… well, suffice to say the Guards are fighting one man who, not two months ago, threatened to commit genocide against the Iranian people and another who killed 75,000 Gazans over the space of two and a half years, not to mention 5,200 (and counting) Lebanese.

Speaking of Benjamin Netanyahu, the IDF on Wednesday issued still more evacuation warnings in southern Lebanon, where the Israeli military continues to occupy and operate heedless of the ceasefire and apparently unconcerned with Trump’s warnings against escalations that might derail talks with Tehran.

Netanyahu now says Hezbollah’s established an operations center in a Christian enclave of Tyre. Locals, the Israeli military modestly suggested, should kick them out. IDF warplanes struck targets in several villages, drones buzzed over hamlets and vehicles ostensibly driven by Hezbollah operatives exploded on resupply routes.

On Qeshm Island — that’s the 575-square mile strip just off Bandar Abbas that some feared Trump might try to occupy as part of any US ground operation in Iran — the US military blew up what CENTCOM described as a “ground control tower.”

The US also downed a trio of kamikaze drones launched by the Guards “toward civilian mariners” in the Strait of Hormuz. All of those actions, CENTCOM said, were in “self defense.”

Late Tuesday, before all the shooting started, Trump called reports that the US and Iran were no longer talking “fake news.”

“The conversations between us have been going on continuously,” he said. “Where they lead, one never knows, but as I told Iran, ‘It’s time, one way or another, for you to make a Deal.'”