Iran fired drones at Bahrain on Saturday in an apparent response to overnight airstrikes by the US, shaking uneasy efforts for a US-Iran peace deal.

A ship also came under attack in the blockaded Strait of Hormuz, and security sources told Reuters an explosive drone targeted a recently evacuated camp belonging to an Iranian Kurdish opposition group north of Iraq’s Erbil. No casualties were reported in either incident.

Meanwhile, a multinational maritime body overseen by the US Navy said Saturday that it would expand a route near Oman in the Strait of Hormuz to allow for both inbound and outbound traffic — likely setting up a new flashpoint with Tehran.

The US had on Friday said it struck military storage and radar sites in Iran in response to an Iranian drone attack on a ship trying to get out of the strategic waterway on Thursday.

The attacks were the first known exchange of fire between the US and Iran since the two countries last week reached a memorandum of understanding to hammer out a final deal within 60 days.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday said the US military’s “brutal attacks, which targeted Iranian coastal surveillance facilities, are a blatant violation” of the interim agreement, which calls for a halt to all regional hostilities.

In a statement carried by Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency on Saturday, following the US strikes, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted several unspecified locations “of the US terrorist army in the region.”

Bahrain, home to the US Navy’s 5th Fleet, later said “several........

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