The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency says it received a report of a tanker being fired upon by what it said were “two gunboats linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)” 20 nautical miles northeast of Oman.
The captain of the tanker said the two gunboats opened fire without issuing a radio challenge, UKMTO says in its advisory note, adding that the vessel and its crew were reported safe.
The captain of the tanker said the two gunboats opened fire without issuing a radio challenge, UKMTO says in its advisory note, adding that the vessel and its crew were reported safe.
US ‘cannot impose their will’ and block Hormuz, Iran’s deputy FM says
The United States “cannot impose their will” and block the strategic Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s deputy foreign minister says, after Iran’s military declared the waterway closed again.
“Americans cannot impose their will to do a siege over Iran while Iran, with good intention, is trying to facilitate safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz,” Saeed Khatibzadeh tells journalists on the sidelines of an annual Turkish diplomatic forum in the southern province of Antalya.
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Iran says it has reasserted control over Hormuz after US refuses to end blockade
Iran swiftly reverses course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, reimposing restrictions on the critical waterway after the US says the move would not end its blockade.
The country’s joint military command says that the “control of the Strait of Hormuz has returned to its previous state … under strict management and control of the armed forces.”
It warns that it would continue to block transit through the strait as long as the US blockade of Iranian ports remained in effect.
The announcement comes the morning after US President Donald Trump said the American blockade “will remain in full force” until Tehran reaches a deal with the US, including on its nuclear program.
Senior Hezbollah official Mahmud Qamati says that his terror group was not concerned by Lebanon’s planned direct talks with Israel, labeling them a failure.
In a press conference in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Qamati says his terror group was “not concerned with the negotiations being conducted by the state,” saying they were “a failure, weak, defeated… and submissive negotiations.”
“The resistance is the one that imposes. We are the land… and we are the ones who draw up the decisions, not those who have an official status,” he says, adding that while his group did not mind Beirut “coordinating with us… not in this way that leads to surrender.”
CENTCOM says US forces have turned back 23 ships to Iranian ports
Since the United States imposed a blockade on Iranian ports and coastal areas, 23 ships have complied with US forces orders to turn back toward Iran, the US military says.
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