Just hours after agreeing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has again blocked ships from passing through waterway — blaming it on Israel striking Lebanon.
Inclusion of Lebanon is significant difference in interpretation of truce agreed at 11th hour on TuesdayMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe fate of the two-week ceasefire in the Iran conflict looked uncertain on Wednesday as both sides gave divergent versions of what had been agreed, Israel intensified its bombing campaign in Lebanon and Iran halted the…
Reports from Iranian state media say the Strait of Hormuz is not open because Iran is responding to the continued Israeli airstrikes into Lebanon. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire agreement that has been brokered. NBC News’ Monica Alba details where the Trump administration stands and what’s next for…
Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday over the Israeli military’s barrage of attacks in Lebanon against Iran-backed Hezbollah, Iranian state media reported. Two tankers were able to pass through the strait, through which about 20 percent of the world’s oil supply flows, according to MarineTraffic, a ship-tracking service. The Greek-owned carrier NJ…
Iran has reportedly closed the Strait of Hormuz to all oil tankers Wednesday after the country accused Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement by striking targets in…
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had closed the Strait of Hormuz after U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to a ceasefire that required the waterway to remain open.Iran had threatened to close the strait again on Wednesday morning due to Israeli strikes in Lebanon. For his part, Trump insisted that Lebanon had never been part of the…
Continued fighting in the Middle East, punctuated by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, threatened to derail the fragile US-Iran ceasefire even as the two sides signaled they could soon hold talks to end the six-week conflict.
President Donald Trump brokered what was supposed to be a two-week “conditional ceasefire” with the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, and Iran’s Islamic regime couldn’t even wait a few hours before showing the world exactly who they are, a bunch of lying, oil-choking, missile-flinging radicals who despise America, Israel, and freedom itself. The…
Iran attempted to clear up why ships have refrained from passing through the Strait of Hormuz, claiming the danger of mines made travel without the coordination of Iran’s military hazardous. Only four ships passed through the strait in the first 24 hours of the ceasefire, none of them oil or gas tankers, and passage stopped…
