Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes against Houthi targets in the Yemeni port city of Hodeida and a nearby island on Friday, after the Iran-backed group announced a maritime blockade and attacked Saudi ships. Saudi authorities subsequently issued emergency alerts for Jizan province when the Houthis claimed responsibility for a missile attack on the city of Jizan.
Now Trump and the Iranians find themselves in a familiar situation. The latter are once again facing US military attacks throughout their territory, highlighting their inability to defend their territorial sovereignty. With the blockade reimposed, their oil revenues – a lifeline for the Iranian regime – are once again cut off. Meanwhile, Trump again faces
The United States and Iran have been trading waves of attacks, as a dispute over control of the Strait of Hormuz threatens to derail efforts to end their war. BBC correspondent Barbara Plett Usher, reporting from Jerusalem, examines the latest tensions over the key international shipping channel. Over the weekend, Iran announced that the strait
Last night, far from the din of this escalation, its parliament quietly introduced a new bill to manage the strait called the Strategic Action for the Security and Sustainable Progress of the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf. That news was published in X by Ebrahim Azizi, head of the assembly’s national security commission,
President Donald Trump has reversed his threat to impose a 20% tariff on all cargo transportation through the Strait of Hormuz, as the United States fights to break Iran’s control over the waterway. He said the toll would be replaced by trade and investment deals with Gulf states, just hours before the United States resumes
Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and two people who have been closely involved in the Middle East talks, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, are expected to lead the negotiations, which were expected to take place in Oman on Saturday. Meanwhile, a Qatari delegation traveled to Iran on