At the world's most critical oil chokepoint, the United States and Iran have crossed into open maritime warfare, each strike now answered by another in a rhythm that is reshaping the rules of global shipping. The US Navy sank five Iranian tankers overnight while Iran's Revolutionary Guard attacked more than a dozen vessels, fired ballistic missiles at a US base in Jordan, and declared a vast new exclusion zone stretching deep into the Arabian Sea. Six months into a conflict neither side has found a way to end, oil prices have surpassed $100 a barrel and the architecture of free navigation that
Hormuz escalates into open warfare as US, Iran trade strikes on shipping
At least one seafarer killed aboard the Hercules Star tanker off Dubai and another reported missing; two Iranian missiles fell in unpopulated areas of Jordan with no reported casualties.