President Donald Trump declared that Iran 'really wants to make a deal' early on Monday morning, just hours after the US military launched strikes against Iranian drone facilities.

In a late-night Truth Social post shortly after 1am, Trump insisted diplomacy remained within reach despite the latest exchange of fire, while simultaneously lashing out at critics he said were undermining his negotiating position.

'Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the USA and those that are with us,' Trump wrote.

But the president also took aim at what he called 'Dumocrats' and 'seemingly unpatriotic Republicans,' accusing political opponents of making it harder for him to navigate one of the most dangerous foreign policy crises of his presidency. 

'Don't the Dumocrats, and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans, understand that it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively 'chirping,' at levels never seen before, over and over again, that I should move faster, or move slower, or go to war, or not go to war, or whatever,' Trump wrote.

'Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end - It always does!'

Trump's post comes and amid growing fears that the fragile ceasefire between Washington and Tehran could be unraveling after the latest round of strikes.

They came after the US accused Tehran of shooting down a US drone and threatening ships traveling through regional waters.

US Central Command announced that American fighter aircraft carried out what it described as 'self-defense strikes' against Iranian radar and drone command facilities in southern Iran after a series of what it called aggressive actions by the regime.

The strikes targeted a ground control radar station and command-and-control sites for drones in Goruk and on Qeshm Island, according to CENTCOM.

The military said the operation was triggered by the shooting down of a US MQ-1 drone that was flying over international waters.

'The measured and deliberate strikes occurred on Saturday and Sunday in response to aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a US MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters,' CENTCOM said in a statement posted on X.

It added that no US military personnel were harmed.

Iranian media, described the drone as 'hostile', and said it was shot down after it crossed over into Iran's territorial waters. 

The two countries had traded strikes ​last week ​as ⁠well with Iran targeting a US air base after ​the US military carried ​out ⁠what a Washington official said were strikes targeting an Iranian drone ⁠operation ​near the Strait of ​Hormuz.

The US strike is now the third time that the ceasefire between Iran and America has been violated since it was agreed in early April.

On the two prior occasions, the truce between Tehran and Washington was able to continue as both countries played down the significance of the exchange of strikes.

The truce followed nearly six weeks of fighting that erupted after American and Israeli forces launched attacks on Iran in February, a conflict that ultimately resulted in the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Although the ceasefire has remained largely intact, tensions have repeatedly threatened to unravel the agreement as the Trump administration continues to pressure Tehran into accepting a broader settlement that would restore normal shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and address concerns surrounding Iran's nuclear ambitions.

The first major test of the ceasefire came on May 7, when both sides accused each other of violating the agreement. Iranian officials claimed US forces had struck civilian areas and targeted vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, while Washington said its actions were a response to attacks against three American destroyers.

Another confrontation followed last week when US forces carried out strikes on missile launch sites and vessels that officials said were attempting to deploy naval mines in regional waters.

In both instances, American officials stressed that the operations were limited and defensive in nature, maintaining that they did not signal the collapse of the ceasefire or a return to full-scale hostilities with Iran.

Early on Monday, Kuwait's military said that its air defenses were actively intercepting incoming missiles and drones after the country came under attack amid escalating tensions across the Gulf.

State media reported air raid sirens sounding across Kuwait as military units responded to what officials described as hostile aerial threats.

Kuwait is among several Gulf nations targeted by Iranian retaliatory attacks earlier this year after the outbreak of war involving the United States, Israel and Iran.

The Kuwaiti army announced that its air defenses were intercepting missile and drone attacks.

'The General Staff of the Army wishes to advise that any sounds of explosions heard are the result of air defense systems intercepting these hostile attacks,' the Kuwaiti army said in a statement.