Iran has fired on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz, damaging the vessel and complicating efforts to bring the United States and Iran together in Pakistan for talks to end the war. The Wednesday morning attack by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard came after U.S. President Donald Trump indefinitely extended the ceasefire with Iran to give Tehran time to come up with a “unified proposal” ahead of possible negotiations. Iran has offered no formal acknowledgment of the extension of the ceasefire. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif thanked Trump for agreeing to the extension, saying it would buy time for ongoing diplomatic efforts. 

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Iran fires on 3 ships in the Strait of Hormuz as US maintains blockade and diplomacy stalls

Iran fires on 3 ships in the Strait of Hormuz as US maintains blockade and diplomacy stalls

Iran has fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them. The intensification of Iran's assault on shipping in a waterway crucial to global energy supplies comes a day after U.S. President Donald Trump extended a ceasefire but pressed on with an American blockade of Iranian ports. The White House says the seizures didn't violate ceasefire terms but the latest salvos complicate efforts to bring the United States and Iran together for talks to end the war. The effective closure of the strait has already sent gas prices skyrocketing worldwide and raised the cost of food and a wide array of other products.

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