Iran Fires on Three Commercial Ships

Satellite imagery reveals that more than 33 IRGC fast-attack boats are massed near the Strait of Hormuz in a major Iranian show of force. Iran fired on three ships, less than 24 hours after Donald Trump extended the deadline. The attacks carried out by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard came after President Trump said the U.S. would indefinitely extend the ceasefire with Iran, due to expire on Wednesday. It will continue until Iran presents “a unified proposal.” President Trump also told them to “Get their S*** together.” Trump said the U.S. would continue to blockade Iranian ports, and the attacks reinforced the dangers to traffic in the strait, through which 20% of the world’s oil and natural gas pass in peacetime. That means that even if the ceasefire largely holds—and Iran and the