U.S. sinks six Iranian boats in Strait of Hormuz as ceasefire hangs by a thread
U.S. sinks six Iranian boats in Strait of Hormuz as ceasefire hangs by a thread
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Washington said Iran had not breached a fragile ceasefire in the Middle East conflict on Tuesday, following an exchange of fire between the two sides the previous day as U.S. forces attempted to force open the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday that a fragile truce with Iran remained intact, even as the two countries exchanged fire in the Gulf as they wrestled for control of the Strait of Hormuz.
HEGSETH: “We’re not looking for a fight. But Iran also cannot be allowed to block innocent countries and their goods from an international waterway. Iran is the clear aggressor. Harassing civilian vessels, threatening mariners from every nation indiscriminately, and weaponizing a critical chokepoint for its own financial benefit, or at least trying to.”
The U.S. military says it sank six Iranian small boats and intercepted Iranian cruise missiles and drones, after President Donald Trump sent the navy to escort stranded tankers in a day-old campaign he called “Project Freedom.”
The operation is Trump’s latest effort to force an end to the disruption of global energy supplies caused by Iran’s blockade of the waterway.
In response, Iran fired missiles at U.S. ships and at the United Arab Emirates, a key regional ally of Washington.
U.S. and Iranian officials have held one round of face-to-face peace talks, but attempts to set up further meetings have failed.
TRUMP: “They should wave the white…the flag, the white flag of surrender.”
Trump has said the U.S.-Israeli attacks aimed to eliminate what he called imminent threats from Iran, citing among other things its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
Reuters reported exclusively on Tuesday that U.S. intelligence assessments indicate that the time Iran would need to build a nuclear weapon has not changed since last summer, when analysts estimated that a U.S.-Israeli attack had pushed back the timeline to up to a year.
That’s according to three sources familiar with the matter.
The assessments of Iran’s nuclear program remain broadly unchanged even after two months of a war that Trump launched in part to stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb.
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