NEW YORK, July 12. /TASS/.
The Strait of Hormuz is open to all vessels, with the US forces being prepared to ensure free navigation along this waterway, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said.
The Strait of Hormuz is open to all vessels seeking to lawfully transit the international waterway.
U.S. forces are positioned and prepared to ensure that freedom of navigation remains available despite unwarranted Iranian aggression, harassment, threats, and arbitrary declarations, it wrote on X.
Iran does not control the strait. Traffic is flowing, it underscored, adding that more than 140 vessels has passed through the strait in the past seven days.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, elite units of the Iranian army) fired warning shots at a vessel trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz along an unauthorized route. The strait has been closed until further notice, it added.
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US President Donald Trump claims that Iran had agreed to what he called a “perfect deal” for the United States before attacking a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.
They agreed to a deal yesterday. A perfect deal for us. No nuclear. No this. No that. No nothing. They gave up everything. And then after that, they left the room. And then, within an hour, they launched a drone at a ship, he told NBC News.
He did not mention any details of the deal he was talking about but claimed that the United States bombed the hell out of them last night.
TASS / ABC Flash Point News 2026.
US Centcom has no more authority over the Persian Gulf.