Explore Iran's determination to control the Strait of Hormuz amidst escalating tensions and U.S.-Iran negotiations.

Iran responded by targeting Gulf nations, with new strikes on Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait, according to state media reports.

The United States attacked Iran early Sunday morning over an Iranian strike on a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz that set the container ship ablaze and forced its crew to abandon it.

U.S. and Iranian forces have exchanged heavy missile and drone assaults, with Tehran targeting U.S. facilities in states across the Gulf on Sunday and saying it had again closed the vital ​Strait of Hormuz.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard rejected that claim, declaring the strait to be Iranian territory and warning that it would not tolerate what it called illegal U.S. interference.

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The US said its latest wave of strikes was in response to an Iranian attack on a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz the previous week.

The United States and Iran each say they control the Strait of Hormuz after attacks over the weekend stretching across the wider Middle East.