American president says ships will be charged for safe passage through strait in apparent policy reversalMiddle East crisis live – latest updatesThe US has launched its third consecutive night of strikes on Iran hours after Donald Trump said Washington would reinstate a maritime blockade on the country and, in an apparently policy reversal, charge ships for safe passage.“These strikes will continue imposing a heavy cost on Iranian forces and degrade their ability to attack innocent civilians and commercial shipping in the strait of Hormuz,” the US military’s Central Command said. US President Donald Trump says the US is reinstating its blockade of Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and will start charging for ships from elsewhere to transit through it. President Donald Trump has said the US will ‘take over’ the Strait of Hormuz, accusing Iran of breaking the deal.
EU says Strait of Hormuz must be reopened European Union Vice President Kaja Kallas said on Monday that EU foreign ministers will meet Gulf nations to talk about security in the region and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, noting the Iran-US interim deal is “not really holding” amid renewed strikes. Kallas said officials will discuss “what kind of message we can send that the Strait of Hormuz has t… Iran’s attack on a container ship came hours after a meeting between the foreign ministers of Iran and Oman about opening the strait to traffic.
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