NY Times - U.S.
Central Command said on Saturday evening that it had launched strikes on Iran
after the Iranian navy attacked a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz,
rejecting a U.S. ultimatum to open the critical waterway to traffic.
Hours earlier, the Iranian
foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, had met in Oman with its top diplomat to
discuss safe passage in the Strait of Hormuz, but he made no public
commitments. The prospect of a reopening seemed dimmer than ever after Iran
announced the attack, a warning shot on a container ship, and said it would
close the strait “until the end of U.S. interference in the region.”
The Iranian navy said it had
fired after “several ships attempted to travel along an unapproved route” and
ignored directions to transit through Iran’s territorial waters. It warned that
it would meet any U.S. retaliation to its attack with a “forceful response.”
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