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The U.S. reimposed a naval blockade on Iran<\/a> and intensified its airstrike campaign Wednesday in retaliation for Tehran\u2019s attacks on ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Overnight American strikes hit an Iranian army barracks, killed at least seven troops and wounded more than 260 people across the country, Iranian officials said. Later, the U.S. resumed striking Iran during daylight \u2014 an unusual move that further signaled the increasing tempo in attacks.
Days of back-and-forth strikes by the U.S. and Iran across the Middle East \u2014 and renewed threats to the waterway crucial to global energy supplies \u2014 have shredded the interim deal to end the conflict and the region could tip back into all-out war.
The U.S. first imposed a blockade in April and then lifted it last month after signing the interim deal that paused the fighting and set a 60-day period for negotiations over issues like Iran\u2019s nuclear program. Those talks have stalled as fighting over the Strait of Hormuz has intensified.
When the U.S. and Israel launched the war on Iran on Feb. 28, Tehran effectively closed the waterway to shipping traffic \u2014 a move that sent the price of oil, fertilizer and many other goods soaring far beyond the region and gave Iran major leverage in negotiations.
Those rising prices pose a particular challenge to Donald Trump and his Republican Party, which hopes to retain control of Congress in elections in November \u2014 but Washington has struggled to successfully reopen the waterway.
Trump told Fox News Channel on Tuesday night that more U.S. strikes against Iran were coming over the next two days and that bridges and power plants could be targets by next week unless negotiations resume. Already, the U.S. has struck at least one bridge.
\u201cYou better make a deal, or you\u2019re not going to have anything left,\u201d Trump warned.
Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened Wednesday to halt all energy exports from the Middle East over the blockade.
\u201cThe export of oil and gas from the region will be either for everyone or for no one,\u201d it said.
The U.S. carried out a wave of strikes, hitting dozens of targets over seven hours overnight, the military\u2019s Central Command said Wednesday.
One strike targeted a barracks for Iran\u2019s 388th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, which operates tanks and armored vehicles, in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iranian state television reported. The report said the Americans fired at least 13 missiles in the attack and that the seven dead included conscripts and career soldiers. A number of troops were wounded.
Including those at the barracks, more than 30 people have been killed in recent days, Iranian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said, without elaborating.
Hossein Kermanpour, a spokesperson for the Health Ministry, meanwhile, said over 260 people were wounded in overnight strikes alone \u2014 a figure far larger than for any other round of recent violence between Iran and the U.S. He did not say how many people were killed overnight.
The army said it would make \u201ca decisive response to this aggressive action by the American enemy,\u201d according to state TV.
Missile alert warnings sounded in Bahrain and Kuwait early Wednesday as they faced incoming Iranian fire \u2014 a daily occurrence in recent days. Jordan said it shot down three incoming Iranian missiles. Iran claimed attacks on the three nations, all of which host U.S. forces.
U.S. Navy Adm. Brad Cooper, who leads Central Command, said in a statement that Iran had launched dozens of missiles and drones at neighboring Gulf Arab countries.
Iran\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, criticized America\u2019s attacks.
\u201cThe U.S. is the aggressor, not the victim,\u201d he wrote to the world body\u2019s leader, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.
The latest round of fighting is focused on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world\u2019s oil and natural gas trade passes during peacetime. How to reopen the strait has bedeviled the U.S. since Iran choked it off in the early days of the war.
During the interim deal, some ships began moving through the passage using a route near Oman overseen by the U.S. military that is outside Tehran\u2019s control.
In recent days, Iran attacked ships using that route \u2014 and back-and-forth attacks ensued. The U.S. has threatened to reopen the strait by force \u2014 but experts say that would require a much bigger armada if not tens of thousands of ground troops. Imposing the blockade is another way to put pressure on Iran.
The price for Brent crude oil, the international standard, traded above $85 a barrel on Wednesday \u2014 more than 15% higher than the price before the war, but still well below the nearly $120 reached at the height of the conflict.
When Trump announced the return of the blockade Monday, he also said he would impose a 20% fee on ships passing through the strait. But he dropped the plan to collect fees, citing requests from allies in the Persian Gulf.
\u201cThey said we\u2019d love to do it a different way. We\u2019d love to invest in the United States with billions and billions of dollars,\u201d Trump told reporters Tuesday in the Oval Office.
It was unclear if the investment deals would be new commitments relative to what Trump announced after a visit last year to the Middle East.
Trump\u2019s plan to charge fees would have been a change to longstanding American policy and a departure from U.S. promises that the strait would remain open to all without tolls.
Under the interim deal, Iran agreed that passage through the strait would remain free of charge for 60 days \u2014 but the agreement left open what would happen after. Iran asserts it has the right to manage traffic and potentially charge fees. The U.S. has disputed that.
Regional mediators meanwhile are still trying to get the United States and Iran back to the negotiating table.
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