July 14, 2026:
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has backtracked (July 14, 2026) on plans to charge ships for using the Strait of Hormuz, saying Gulf countries would instead invest in the United States. Another wave of U.S. strikes on Iran, and Iranian attacks on shipping and U.S. allies, left an interim peace deal in tatters. That agreement was supposed to reopen a waterway that is key to world energy supplies and give negotiators time to hammer out a permanent end to the war. Instead, fighting has once again engulfed the region, threatened the global economy and brought warnings to commercial airlines. The International Maritime Organization attacks on tankers killed two mariners and wounded 14 others.
July 13, 2026:
UNDATED- President Donald Trump said Iranian ships will no longer be able to travel through the Strait of Hormuz and America would charge a 20% toll on other countries’ eligible cargo, escalating tensions after weekend of attacks by both nations to assert control of the critical waterway. The European Union’s top diplomat says the strait should return to how it was before the war — open and free.
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