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(Bloomberg) -- The US carried out a new round of strikes in Iran targeting more than 80 sites and revoked a waiver allowing new sales of Iranian oil, further imperiling a peace agreement after a series of attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

American forces struck Iranian air defense systems, command and control networks, coastal radar sites, anti-ship missile capabilities, and more than 60 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps small boats, US Central Command said in a statement on X late Tuesday, calling it “an immediate response” to Tehran’s latest attacks on commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

Central Command said the latest American attacks had been concluded. It remained unclear if and how Iran would retaliate, but Axios reported that the country’s military had carried out drone assaults on Bahrain.

Hours earlier, the US Treasury Department announced it was barring new sales of Iranian oil after July 7, a key incentive intended to get Tehran to abide by a deal that calls for reopening the strait.

Taken together, the American actions marked the most serious threat yet to the interim agreement signed between the two countries’ leaders on June 17. They also threatened to scuttle negotiations aimed at achieving a permanent peace within 60 days of that deal. President Donald Trump approved the strikes on Iran while he was in Turkey for a NATO summit, according to a US official who asked not to be identified.