U.S. launches airstrikes against Iran after Tehran attacks container ship in Hormuz, Pentagon says
President Donald Trump ordered renewed airstrikes against Iran on Saturday after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a commercial ship...
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- President Donald Trump ordered renewed airstrikes against Iran on Saturday after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a commercial ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S.
- "In response, the United States is imposing a heavy cost by continuing to degrade Iran's ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the strait," Centcom said in a social media post.
- The Revolutionary Guard said it has closed Hormuz to all ship traffic "until further notice," according to the Iranian state news outlet PressTV.
- "No vessel will be permitted to transit the strait," the Guard said in a statement published by PressTV.
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President Donald Trump ordered renewed airstrikes against Iran on Saturday after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a commercial ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. "In response, the United States is imposing a heavy cost by continuing to degrade Iran's ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the strait," Centcom said in a social media post. The Revolutionary Guard said it has closed Hormuz to all ship traffic "until further notice," according to the Iranian state news outlet PressTV. "No vessel will be permitted to transit the strait," the Guard said in a statement published by PressTV. and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding on June 17 to reopen the strait. military would "assure the flow of energy out of the Gulf with or without an agreement with Iran." "Iran will not have the ability to close the Strait of Hormuz going forward," Wright said at a conference in New York City on June 24.