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The U.S. blockade continues despite Iran's announcement the Strait of Hormuz is open

Trump says the U.S. naval blockade on ships accessing Iran will continue, despite an announcement Friday by the Iranian foreign minister that the Strait of Hormuz

US waiting on a response from Iran over proposals for ceasefire deal, says Rubio

announced last month. In recent days there have been the biggest flare-ups in fighting in and around the contested strait of Hormuz since the informal truce began. The rise in violence followed Donald Trump

Middle East crisis live: Iran warns it will close strait of Hormuz if US blockade continues

Hormuz strait shipping. Photograph: Remo Casilli/Reuters PA Media also reports that the initiative was announced at talks in Paris involving nearly 50 countries, which Turner said signalled global resolve to prevent tolls or restrictions being

US, Iran, UAE trade Hormuz attack claims: What we know

Trump announced a US plan to “guide” ships stranded in the Gulf out through the [Strait of Hormuz

Trump now says a peace deal will be announced 'soon,' cancels further strikes

Trump now says a peace deal will be announced 'soon,' cancels further strikes ![A small motorboat passes anchored vessels in the Strait of Hormuz

Trump’s ‘Project Freedom’: Can US navy ‘guide’ stuck ships out of Hormuz?

Trump’s announcement, Ebrahim Azizi, head of the Iranian parliament’s National Security Commission, warned that any US intervention would violate the ceasefire. “The Strait of Hormuz

Iran blames Trump’s blockade for diplomatic impasse as fragile truce holds

announced in Lebanon last week, Iran said the Hormuz Strait would re-open, but it shut down the waterway again after Trump

Hegseth says US blockade to continue, ready for new attacks on Iran energy

Trump announced the military would blockade Iran’s ports in the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian

Iran ‘agreed to never have a nuclear weapon’, says Trump – as it happened

Trump has said the strait of Hormuz “will be completely open” by Friday after the agreement on a memorandum ⁠of understanding ⁠between the US and Iran on ending the war.** Its text

Intemperate Trump brings chaos and confusion to Iran talks

Trump was regarded as significant by Iran, and was due to lead to a reciprocal partial lifting of the Iranian chokehold on the strait of Hormuz – a step announced

Iran, US agree tentative deal to ‘end war’: Your questions answered

announcement was welcomed by financial markets while Trump urged ships stranded due to the Strait of Hormuz

As oil prices plunge below $91 after weeks, a new Hormuz crisis emerges

Strait of Hormuz, warning that it would continue to block transit through the key waterway as long as the US blockade of Iranian ports remained in effect. The announcement came after Trump

No headway in Middle East peace efforts as US and Iran refuse to yield

Trump announced an indefinite extension of his earlier two-week ceasefire with Iran and repeated his demand that Iran allow shipping free passage in the strait of Hormuz

Iran war: What is happening on day 52 of the US-Israeli conflict?

Strait of Hormuz on Sunday has further clouded the Islamabad talks, as Tehran has pledged to retaliate. The attack came hours after President Trump announced

With Iran deal, Trump told ships to 'start your engines.' That's not happening yet

announcement of [an agreement to extend a ceasefire](https://www.npr.org/2026/06/15/nx-s1-5858590/us-iran-deal-updates) and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Friday is the day President Trump

Explainer: What is in Iran’s 10-point ceasefire plan and will the US agree to it?

strait of Hormuz. Israel also agreed to the ceasefire, the White House said. As Trump announced

Iran war day 68: Trump talks about progress in talks; Rubio says war ‘over’

Trump [has announced](/news/liveblog/2026/5/6/iran-war-live-trump-says-hormuz-operation-paused-amid-us-tehran-talks) a temporary pause to the US military’s “Project Freedom” operation to reopen the Strait of Hormuz

Oil prices plunge as Iran says Strait of Hormuz 'open' during ceasefire

Strait of Hormuz followed a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon. US President Donald Trump welcomed the move, writing on Truth Social: "IRAN HAS JUST ANNOUNCED

‘United States of the Middle East?’: Trump posts US flag covering Iran

announcements related to key sticking points in the standoff, including the future of Iran’s nuclear programme, the fate of its highly enriched uranium stockpile, and its future influence over the Strait of Hormuz. Trump

Iran’s gunboat fires on container ship off Oman coast

Strait of Hormuz would remain in place and said the military had been ordered to stay “ready and able”. The announcement marked a shift from comments made a day earlier, when Trump