Strait of Hormuz: Iran attacks three ships in 24 hours, U.S. says

According to Axios, Iran's military has attacked three commercial ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz in the span of twenty-four hours. Citing two U.S. officials, Axios reports that Iranian forces fired at least two missiles at vessels transiting the strait on Monday night, and the Revolutionary Guard struck a third ship on Tuesday morning. Both of the first two vessels suffered significant damage, but no casualties were reported. The strikes threaten to unravel a memorandum of understanding signed less than three weeks earlier, in which Iran had agreed to halt such attacks, and they follow the expiration of a separate one-week ceasefire. Axios notes that U.S. officials expect Washington to retaliate with strikes on Iranian targets, after indirect talks in Doha last week ended without much progress.

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