Trump has demanded that Britain send ships to the Strait of Hormuz.

As Iranian-designed Shahed drones proliferate across battlefields from Ukraine to the Middle East, relatively cheap unmanned aircraft are forcing the use of some of the world's most expensive air defense systems.

The US embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, was hit in an attack on Saturday following strikes that killed two members of a powerful Iran-backed group in the capital, security sources said.

The assessment by the US secretary of defence contrasts with news reports earlier this week ‌suggesting ‌Iran ⁠had deployed about a dozen mines in the ⁠conduit for a fifth of the world’s oil.

Washington said on Thursday it would temporarily waive sanctions on Russian oil at sea.

Moscow blames Britain for Ukraine’s factory attack which killed seven people.

Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei released a new message Thursday saying that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the war is over.

Israel’s military said it began a new “wide-scale” wave of strikes across Iran on Thursday, on the 13th day of the US-Israeli war with the Islamic republic.

The Iran war has caused “the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market,” the International Energy Agency said on Thursday.

Two oil tankers were struck overnight in the Persian Gulf in a suspected Iranian attack.