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threat, and urged residents to remain in safe locations and follow official updates. ## In the US - **Trump says Iranian boats destroyed in Hormuz clash:** The US president said three US Navy destroyers transited the Strait
Trump administration](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration)’s long-awaited counter-terrorism strategy on a call with journalists on Wednesday, he also reportedly described critics of the administration’s war in Iran as “[testicularly challenged](https://thehill.com
Iran. Trump made no reference to Saudi objections, or to the denial of airspace. His surprise decision had also undercut a day of heavy messaging by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, the defence
Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) demanded that other countries helped open the strait of Hormuz; while at others he suggested the US did not need any help. The UK and other countries have said they will
Trump told supporters “the war in Iran is going along swimmingly, we can do whatever we want.” He did not explain why, then, the US military has been unable to stop Iran from closing
Iran conflict. Starmer said the damage done to economies around the world by the Middle East crisis would “play out” with electorates across [Europe](https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news). As the Nato military alliance comes under intense
Trump’s reaffirmation of the blockade by Saturday morning had become reason enough for Iran to announce that even the conditional passage of ships was being ended only 24 hours after the process had started
Iran, and potentially authorise force if Tehran fails to halt attacks and threats to commercial shipping in the strait. The closure of the strait, through which one-fifth of the world’s oil and natural
Trump [threatened to invade Greenland](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/05/trump-must-give-up-fantasies-about-annexation-says-greenland-pm) – and Denmark, a Nato member state, took the threat seriously enough to prepare for war, [sending explosives and bloodbags](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/19/denmark-prepared-for-us-attack-donald-trump-greenland) to its largely autonomous territory
threats against shipping in the region. On Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump suspended his military operation aimed at reopening the strait, dubbed “Project Freedom”, less than 48 hours after it began, citing “great progress
Trump “has got a lot of different people in his ear”, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “very hawkish people” within his own administration. Baghaei said Iran was “fully prepared for any eventuality
Trump wrote. The framework of the US-Israel war on Iran is different from that of the war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s, experts say. “In the 1980s, the Tanker War was part
Trump has now extended for an unspecified period of time after negotiators [failed to arrive](/news/2026/4/21/trump-announces-extending-iran-ceasefire-but-says-blockade-remains) in Pakistan for talks. In downtown Tehran’s Enghelab (Revolution) Square, a Khorramshahr-4 ballistic missile, one of Iran
Trump dismissed warnings that the war on Iran could push oil to “$300 a barrel”, saying markets remain strong despite volatility and global fuel disruptions linked to the conflict. ## In Israel - **Netanyahu hails truce:** Israeli
Iran,” Trump told reporters outside the White House on Thursday. The progress is the clearest sign yet that oil and gas flows could begin to return to normal. However, big questions remain over whether
Trump is under pressure domestically and internationally as fuel prices surge in the US and across the rest of the world. US officials have insisted the ceasefire in the Middle East is holding and that
Trump’s repeated warnings that the country will be “next” after his war on Iran and the US military’s abduction of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in January. Last week, Cuban President Miguel Diaz
Trump said US forces would begin [escorting stranded ships](/news/2026/5/4/trumps-project-freedom-can-us-navy-guide-stuck-ships-out-of-hormuz) through the Strait of Hormuz, signalling a direct challenge to Iran’s closure of the strategic waterway, through which 20 percent of the world
threat environment, not outside pressure alone,” he added. ## What do we know about Iran’s nuclear programme? Iran’s nuclear programme began in the 1950s under former leader Reza Shah Pahlavi, with US support
threat to restart attacks on nearby countries’ oil and other infrastructure in the Gulf are the two main cards Iran can play in negotiations. The US has blockaded Iran, stopping all Iran-linked shipping seeking