Vice President JD Vance has witnessed the arrival of the seventh U.S. service member killed in the war with Iran at Dover Air Force Base. Sergeant Benjamin N. Pennington was seriously injured in a strike on the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. He died from his injuries days later, officials said. Six other U.S. troops were killed in an Iranian drone attack on a military base in Kuwait. American-Israeli strikes on Iran have killed about 1,300 people, according to an Iranian official, while Iranian attacks across the Middle East have killed more than 30.
President Trump said on Monday the war in Iran would go on for at least another week and, facing pressure from a surge in energy prices, he suggested that the United States could begin accompanying oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz to help keep oil flowing from the Middle East.
“We’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough,” he told a gathering of Republican lawmakers in Florida. “We go forward more determined than ever to achieve ultimate victory that will end this long-running danger once and for all.”
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said any Arab or European country that expels Israeli and American ambassadors from its territory will be granted unrestricted passage through the Strait of Hormuz starting Tuesday.
According to Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB, the IRGC said those countries would have the “full right and freedom” to transit the strategic waterway if they sever diplomatic ties with both Israel and the United States.
Nearly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply passes through this narrow, 21-mile-wide waterway, which is now a critical, high-risk bottleneck for global markets.
The US-Israeli war with Iran has sent oil prices higher for two primary reasons: a near shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz and a slowdown in oil production in the Middle East.
Without the outright collapse of the regime, some level of diplomatic engagement rather than just sheer military power will likely be required to eliminate Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, multiple sources said.
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