Tensions over the Strait of Hormuz mounted after Trump threatened to attack Oman if it interfered with efforts, as a 60-day deadline for the US and Iran to reach a deal expired. Follow for live news updates.

The US president insists that the strategic waterway remains under US control, despite Tehran claiming otherwise.

The U.S. military has enough ⁠assets ⁠to maintain a naval blockade of ⁠Iran indefinitely, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday, adding ships could be rotated ​in and out of the region as needed.

Iran's top negotiator said the Strait of Hormuz would not open until the US lifted its naval blockade and released frozen Iranian assets, as a ship was hit by a projectile in the strait with a crew member reported as a casualty.

The Strait of Hormuz is at the centre of an increasingly tense confrontation between Iran and the United States, with both sides offering sharply dif

Trump says the U.S. naval blockade is being called “a wall of steel," and Iran can't do anything about it.