Trump says "all mines have been removed and/or detonated" from the Strait of Hormuz

While Iran and Oman negotiate an interim shipping lane and de-mining in the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran says it won't restore normal passage unless Washington ends its war effort, lifts its blockade, and resolves Yemen. The US imposed new penalties on Iranian tech, gold, aviation, shipping, and virtual-asset sectors; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said countries avoiding the pressure campaign would face isolation. The six-month-old US-Israeli war with Iran has left the strait — which normally moves about one-fifth of the world's oil and LNG — almost unusable, rattling energy markets. On Truth Social, President Donald Trump, crediting the US Navy, said the strait's open waters held no mines. Iran's deputy foreign minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, dismissed that as a deceptive claim and warned that American mine-clearing vessels would be attacked. Oman's foreign minister hoped the interim passage would be announced soon.