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Trump has also said that the US will also begin destroying the mines he accuses Iran of having laid in the strait. The US president added that "at some point" an agreement on free passage
Trump**, who [US warned Oman](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/27/donald-trump-oman-threat-strait-hormuz) in late May not to get involved in any effort with Iran to impose a toll. The US treasury secretary, **Scott Bessent**, said Oman’s ambassador
Strait of Hormuz, a vital energy conduit which Iran has [largely kept closed](/news/2026/4/24/how-long-can-iran-survive-the-uss-hormuz-blockade) since the start of the war. Fars also reported that the US has refused to release “even 25 percent” of Iran
threats” or while the blockade remains in place, underscoring the fragile and uncertain path to talks. Meanwhile, violence continues across the region, with Israeli settlers killing two people, including a child, in the occupied West
threat to US forces and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran also appears to be using the fragile ceasefire to conduct repairs to at least four of its ballistic missile bases, satellite images
threats, but the attack it was responding to was very small and meaningless, nobody was hurt, injured, or killed, and should not disrupt this important process". He also said "there should be no more attacks
Hormuz since US-Israeli attacks on Iran began seven weeks ago has disrupted supplies of Middle Eastern crude and gas as well as refined fuels from Gulf refineries, in what the International Energy Agency
Trump will be willing to apply the pressure necessary on Israel to halt its military offensive and allow the Lebanese government to continue its military disarmament efforts. So far, and this is also true
Strait of Hormuz that it would again close the waterway, through which about a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas supplies transited before the war. “Tireless Pakistani and Qatari mediation has delivered major
Iran’s actions since the Islamic revolution in 1979 represented an imminent threat to the US. Speaking before Wednesday’s vote, US Senator Chris Murphy called the conflict a “bungled, mismanaged war” that has failed
Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire on the coordinated route as already announced by Ports and Maritime Organisation of the Islamic Rep of Iran," he wrote on X. Iranian state
Strait of Hormuz. “This is because of the war and the defence of our right – that is, according to international law, it is legitimate, legal, and accepted,” he said on Thursday night, Iran’s official
strait of Hormuz by the US [with an elegant and irony-laden reference to Jane Austen](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/trump-one-man-whatsapp-group-diplomacy-derailing-peace-talks?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other). “It’s a truth universally acknowledged,” said the ambassador, in a reference that was almost certainly
Hormuz, through which a fifth of all traded oil and natural gas once passed in peacetime, as well as fighting between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah. With global energy supplies threatened, Iran still
threats to resume airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, according to a report. “What the fuck are you doing?” the US president shouted at the Israeli prime minister during the phone call on Monday, according
threats and ultimatums from Trump. A state television host claimed this week, without offering a source for his claim, that 87 percent of Iranians would rather go back to war than offer any major concessions
threat. Critics, however, have argued that the US and Israeli attack on Iran was unprovoked, thereby violating international law. Speaking ahead of the vote, Republican Brian Mast decried the latest resolution as “crazy”, pointing
threat](/news/2026/3/20/five-problems-the-iran-war-could-solve-for-israels-netanyahu), is still standing, and, through its control over the Strait of Hormuz, arguably more powerful than before. Closer to home, Israel’s ability to continue its military operations in Lebanon, which it claimed
Strait of Hormuz and The US blockade of Iranian ports, although this may not be immediate. That will go some way to relieving pressure on President Trump over the harm to the global economy caused
Hormuz as its most important point of leverage in negotiations with the US, and it will not give up control of the strait, it has said. The US has imposed a corresponding naval blockade