🔻While the U.S. president says the country’s army has cleared the Strait of Hormuz and fully taken control of it, Iran has again emphasized that as long as Washington does not accept its conditions, this vital waterway will remain closed. Meanwhile, reports have been released about a U.S. Army helicopter firing at a cargo ship in the Sea of Oman that had the flag of Panama and was trying to pass through the naval blockade of Iranian ports. At the same time, it has been reported that in Ansarallah Yemen’s attack on a cargo ship in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, four people were killed.

Interview with Arash Azizi, a history researcher at Yale University and an analyst of Middle East affairs: