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actions against sanctioned ships, the US has seized not only the ship itself but also the oil on board. In 2020, it confiscated fuel from four tankers allegedly carrying Iranian
US military ships. Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian parliament’s National Security Committee, told Al Jazeera that Iran’s actions
US Navy will "blow to hell" any Iranians that attack them and will take action against any ship
US Navy attacked and [seized](/news/2026/4/20/us-captures-iranian-ship-touska-amid-mediation-efforts-all-we-know) an Iranian-flagged cargo ship on Sunday that it said had tried to evade its blockade. The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman declared that these actions
ships that “vessels will be boarded for interdiction and seizure transiting to or from Iranian ports”. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, meanwhile, said Washington was preparing a new raft of actions
US marines now have custody of the vessel. “The TOUSKA is under U.S. Treasury Sanctions because of their prior history of illegal activity,” Trump added. The cargo ship was stopped near Iran’s border with
ships trying to navigate the strait, is trying to send a message that it can maintain its chokehold on the world economy. The US, through its blockade of Iranian ports, is trying something more immediate
action could resume. Iranian state television quoted a senior military official saying commercial vessels would be allowed travel through the strait of Hormuz but only along a determined route and with the permission
Iranian attacks and also deployed vessels to remove mines. NATO countries like the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Italy also joined. But in the current standoff in the Strait of Hormuz, US allies
ships already being turned back amid the standoff. - **Nuclear issue shows potential breakthrough:** Analyst Abas Aslani says Tehran is open to nuclear transparency if Washington is serious about a deal, but new US sanctions
action in Iran so far, some have said they may vote differently if the war threatens to go on beyond 60 days. ## Have hostilities really ceased for now? While the US administration and its Iranian
Iranian flagged ship was under the existing U.S. Treasury Department sanctions. Iran's Revolutionary Guard warned it will take action against the U.S. military for the seizure of that ship, without elaborating. Oil prices surged
shipping, and that it should have “no nuclear weapons”. He did not mention Lebanon. US allies have insisted the ceasefire should be comprehensive. A joint statement by the UK, EU countries, Canada and Japan called
actions to block any strait used for international navigation," Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez told the BBC. Donald Rothwell, professor of international law at the Australian National University, said international law would see the US, Israel
Action (JCPOA) under then-US President Barack Obama. In that agreement, Iran pledged to limit its uranium enrichment to 3.67 percent and to comply with inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in return
shipping passing through the strait of Hormuz. These are the yardsticks, or tests, around which his negotiating team will be keeping an anxious eye. Of course, comparisons between the 159-page 2015 joint comprehensive plan
action as in support of Trump’s illegal blockade of Iranian oil ports. The removal of the largely unmapped mines would be perilous in a benign, peaceful environment, but even more fraught if the operation
Iranian nuclear weapons programme, or prompting diplomatic negotiations, which were already taking place before the conflict. The US has recently focused its rhetoric on reopening the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, so that
shipping in the strait. Trump has said his representatives will be in Pakistan on Monday for negotiations. A White House official said Vice-President JD Vance would lead the US delegation. But Iran's state
action will leave US security worse off, compared to 26% who think it will improve security. **US treasury secretary Scott Bessent has said the underlying US economy remains strong and that growth could still exceed