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Late Thursday, the U.S. military said it thwarted Iranian attacks on three Navy ships within the Strait of Hormuz and struck Iranian military facilities in response. It said no American ships were hit.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThey threaten Americans, they will be blown up,\u201d Rubio told reporters Friday.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry condemned what it called \u201chostile\u201d U.S. military motion, saying it violated the ceasefire. \u201cEach time a diplomatic solution is on the table, the U.S. opts for a reckless military adventure,\u201d Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted on X.<\/p>\n
A U.S. strike overnight killed at the very least one sailor and injured 10 others aboard a cargo vessel that caught fire, a news agency affiliated with Iran\u2019s judiciary reported. It was not clear if the ship was one in all the 2 tankers the U.S. acknowledged striking.<\/p>\n
U.S. President Donald Trump has insisted the ceasefire is holding. He also has reiterated threats to resume full-scale bombing if Iran doesn\u2019t accept an agreement to reopen the strait and roll back its nuclear program.<\/p>\n
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said his country has been in touch with the U.S. and Iran \u201cday and night\u201d in an effort to increase the ceasefire and reach a peace deal.<\/p>\n
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Images taken Friday show the slick covering about 71 square kilometers (27 square miles) and appear to indicate oil still leaking from the terminal, said Ami Daniel, CEO of maritime intelligence firm Windward AI.<\/p>\n
Daniel estimated that the equivalent of roughly 80,000 oil barrels has spilled from Kharg Island because the slick was first detected by satellite images Tuesday. It\u2019s unknown whether the spill was attributable to a malfunction, an airstrike or something else.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is the chance of fighting in an oil-rich area,\u201d said Daniel, adding that it\u2019s unlikely any cleanup efforts shall be launched in Gulf waters which have change into an lively war zone.<\/p>\n
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Nina Noelle, a global crisis operations expert with Greenpeace Germany, said Friday that preliminary assessment and up to date images show the spill starting to disperse and it appears unlikely that it can impact land. She said depending on wind, waves and current conditions, parts of the slick could still possibly affect some sensitive marine habitats.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore likely, it can dissipate offshore under prevailing conditions,\u201d Noelle said.<\/p>\n
The Pentagon declined to comment on whether the U.S. military was tracking the spill or whether there had been recent strikes on the Iranian island. Based on the imagery taken earlier this week, the spill occurred before essentially the most recent round of U.S. strikes.<\/p>\n
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Lloyd\u2019s List Intelligence, a shipping data company, reported Thursday that Iran has created such an agency, often called the Persian Gulf Strait Authority.<\/p>\n
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The Iranian effort to formalize control over the channel raised latest concerns about international shipping, with a whole bunch of business vessels bottled up within the Persian Gulf and unable to succeed in the open sea.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs the world going to simply accept that Iran now controls a global waterway?\u201d Rubio said. \u201cWhat’s the world prepared to do about it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Iran has effectively closed the strait, a significant waterway for the shipment of oil, gas, fertilizer and other petroleum products, while the U.S. is blockading Iranian ports.<\/p>\n
A Chinese-crewed oil tanker was attacked near the strait. China has continued to import oil from Iran despite the effective closure of the waterway.<\/p>\n
China\u2019s Foreign Ministry expressed concern, saying the tanker was registered within the Marshall Islands with Chinese crew on board. There have been no casualties reported.<\/p>\n
An oil tanker that passed through the Strait of Hormuz in mid-April arrived off South Korea\u2019s coast on Friday with 1 million barrels of crude. South Korea, which last 12 months imported greater than 60% of its crude through the strait, has capped prices of gasoline and other petroleum products.<\/p>\n
Finley and Biesecker reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Russ Bynum in Savannah, Georgia; Giada Zampano and Nicole Winfield in Rome, Seung Min Kim in Washington, Sarah El Deeb in Beirut, and Simina Mistreanu in Bangkok contributed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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