Iran has captured two foreign commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and moved them to its coast, in a further escalation that comes hours after United States President Donald Trump said he would extend a ceasefire with Tehran.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC said the vessels had violated maritime regulations and entered the strategic waterway without coordination.
The capture follows Wednesday’s incident, in which an Iranian gunboat fired on a container vessel near Oman, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations UKMTO centre.
