Iran live updates: Iran says US violated MOU, says its suspending commitments

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said on Saturday Iran has suspended its commitments to the MOU and accused the U.S. of violating the agreement reached between the two countries last month.

Iran is not implementing its commitments and is “busy defending the country," Gharibabadi said in televised comments carried on Iranian semi-official news agency Fars.

Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan Reza Amiri Moghadam said in a social media post on Saturday that the U.S. interpreted the Memorandum of Understanding “contrary to its terms and gained control over parts of Strait Hormuz to obtain what it couldn't in the battlefield."

"It was obvious that the Iranian side would not accept this arbitrary interpretation which blatantly violated the MOU. Now, the US has started a war contrary to the terms of MOU and international principles destroying the infrastructures," Moghadam said.

Iran’s Health Ministry said on Saturday that U.S. airstrikes in the country have killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 500 since July 6.

U.S. forces completed a seventh consecutive night of strikes against Iran, U.S. Central Command announced in a social media post.

The strikes concluded at 9:30 p.m. ET after the U.S. hit surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage and maritime capabilities, CENTCOM said in the statement.

"CENTCOM continues to hold Iran accountable at the Commander in Chief's direction while fully enforcing a naval blockade against Iranian ports," the CENTCOM statement said. "More than 50,000 American service members are operating across the Middle East and remain vigilant, lethal, and ready."

Iran claimed Friday that the U.S. struck a railroad station and civilian airport.

In response, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command said the U.S. does not strike at civilians.

"The US military never targets civilians unlike Iran which has repeatedly attacked innocent mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz and civilians in neighboring gulf countries," according to Capt. Tim Hawkins, a CENTCOM spokesman.

In the recent wave of airstrikes CENTCOM has acknowledged U.S. forces have struck at military infrastructure facilities.

The distinction being that the U.S. may see facilities that Iran says are civilian in nature, but that CENTCOM says are being used by the IRGC to target shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.