Trump said on Tuesday that the U.S. has “total control of the Hormuz Strait.”
President Donald Trump announced “major combat operations” against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.
Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries.
Those talks broke down as the U.S. and Iran continued to exchange strikes, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz as the primary flashpoint. Trump then said in August that the U.S. would launch a “crushing economic operation” to force Tehran into submission.
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7:14 AM EDT
Tanker attacked in Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, UKMTO says
The U.K. Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Centre said on Wednesday that it received a report that an oil tanker was struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.
-ABC News’ Victoria Beaule
3:35 AM EDT
State Department announces new Iranian arms procurement sanctions
President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday announced new sanctions on several entities and individuals accused of supporting Iranian arms procurement networks, an effort the State Department said would support Operation Economic Outcast — the U.S. economic pressure campaign against Tehran that Trump described as an “economic D-Day.”
State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a statement, “Over the last year, Iran has continued its attempts to procure arms and related materiel, expanding its destabilizing activities in violation of the restored UN measures. Today’s sanctions target these activities and third-country entities that further Iran’s defense industry and proliferation activities.”
Pigott also said that the State Department will offer rewards of up to $15 million for “information leading to the disruption of the financial mechanisms of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps” and its branches.
-ABC News’ Shannon K. Kingston
3:11 AM EDT
Iran condemns Netanyahu visit to UAE as ‘very dangerous’
The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the United Arab Emirates, warning of “very dangerous consequences” of Israeli “presence in the region.”
“All countries in the region must be wary of the consequences … of such a presence, which threatens the collective peace and security of the region,” the ministry said, as quoted by Iranian state media outlets.
“Regional governments are expected to understand their responsibility for regional peace and stability,” the statement added.
-ABC News’ Will Gretsky
Sep 29, 2026, 11:34 AM EDT
Trump says war will be over ‘very soon,’ but offers no details
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the war with Iran would be “over with very soon,” but did not offer any details.
“Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. And they’re failing very badly, very badly. That’ll be over with very soon. It’ll be over with very, very soon,” Trump said.
“They will not have a nuclear weapon. And oil prices are going to be tumbling down, just like they were before I had to make that little excursion to the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Trump said.
Trump’s remarks come after he rejected a ceasefire proposal from Iran over the weekend, telling reporters “that deal would not be acceptable.”
“’I’m rejecting their deal. They want to make a deal where we open the Strait immediately because they’re losing so badly,” Trump said.
“We’re winning tremendously — we have total control of the Hormuz Strait,” he said on Saturday.
-ABC News’ Nicholas Kerr and Michelle Stoddart
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