Iran is preparing to announce a new exclusion zone near the Strait of Hormuz after US strikes on three Iranian oil tankers, further escalating tensions.
Iran's security chief Mohsen Rezaei has rejected Donald Trump's claim that the Strait of Hormuz remains open and announced plans for a new restricted area outside the strategic waterway.
The order of events is the argument. On 28 February, the United States and Israel struck Iran, and Iran's retaliation closed the Strait of Hormuz to most commercial shipping.
Iran's aerospace forces attacked an aircraft carrier and a destroyer of the US military with several ballistic missiles after the vessels harassed Iranian ships and participated in the naval blockade against the country, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Sunday.
US President Donald Trump warned that Washington could "hit" Iran's heavily fortified Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site "very soon" if activity is detected.
US Vice President JD Vance says economic, military, diplomatic and covert measures remain on Trump's table as Washington weighs its next steps on Iran.
Iran's Health Minister Mohammad-Reza Zafarghandi has said that 18 people were killed and 108 others wounded in overnight strikes by the United States against the country, according to a statement published on the website of the Iranian president's office.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned that countries helping Iran evade American sanctions could themselves face penalties, while dismissing suggestions that India and Iran were preparing a trade agreement
Seven people were killed, and eight others injured after a missile strike by the United States targeted three locations in Iran's Khuzestan province, according to Iran's state-run IRNA news agency.
