US conducts additional military strikes in Iran, targeting Strait of Hormuz

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The post Crude Oil rediscovers its war premium as the Versailles patch peels off appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Crude Oil trades near $74.50 on Wednesday, up more than 3.5% and extending a rebound that began at the $68.00 floor in early July. The catalyst is depressingly familiar: The US has begun another series of strikes on Iranian military targets in and around the Strait of Hormuz, and President Trump now describes the Versailles agreement as over while allowing talks to limp on. Energy traders spent three weeks selling the peace; they are spending Wednesday buying the war back. The recursion trade returns Tehran hit three tankers transiting the strait between Monday and Tuesday; Washington revoked the sanctions waiver behind legal Iranian Oil exports and answered through US Central Command (CENTCOM) with strikes on more than 80 targets, from air defences and coastal radar to anti-ship missile batteries and over 60 Revolutionary Guard small boats

The post US launches fresh strikes on Iran appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The US has begun a fresh series of strikes on Iran, hitting more than 80 targets in and around the Strait of Hormuz only days after the latest patch on the Versailles accord. President Trump now calls the agreement over, even while leaving the door open to talks. Brent trades 6.3% higher and WTI 6.4% higher in response, and the story is no longer any single strike; it is the recursion, a strike-retaliate-re-sign loop that now resets in days rather than months. The loop runs faster each round Tehran hit three tankers transiting the strait between Monday and Tuesday; Washington answered by revoking the waiver behind Iranian Oil sales, then followed with a US Central Command (CENTCOM) package officials describe as four to five times larger than the round ten days ago: Air defences, coastal radar, anti-ship missile sites and more than 60 Revolutionary Guard small boats. Israel’s Kan reports Washington notified

The post Trump Says Iran Ceasefire Is Over—Does That Mean A ‘Return To All-Out’ War? Expert Weighs In appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. President Donald Trump announced at the NATO summit Wednesday that the ceasefire with Iran is over. This came one day after Central Command announced that the U.S. struck over 80 Iranian targets in retaliation for attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Dr. Rosemary Kelanic, the director of the Middle East Program at Defense Priorities, joins “Forbes Newsroom” to discuss. Watch the full interview above. Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestv/2026/07/08/trump-says-iran-ceasefire-is-over–does-that-mean-a-return-to-all-out-war-expert-weighs-in/

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