U.S. President Donald Trump wrote in a June 10 Truth Social post that Iranian officials had "taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them, now they will have to pay the price!!!" and threatened to order attacks on Iranian power plants and bridges. The threats came hours after Iran conducted retaliatory strikes on U.S. military sites in the region, including in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan, in response to earlier U.S. "self-defense strikes" on Qeshm Island, Jask, Bandar Abbas and Sirik, which Iranian media claimed damaged two water reservoirs.

The United States conducted "self-defense strikes" after U.S. officials blamed an Iranian drone collision for the June 8 downing of a U.S. Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz, though both helicopter crew members were rescued. A Qatari mediation team arrived in Tehran on June 10 to push for additional diplomacy and de-escalation. Separately, on June 10, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations reported that a gunboat attacked a vessel off the coast of Yemen and that a fire erupted on a tanker near Oman's Sohar port.