Tehran retaliates across Mideast after U.S. restarts blockade

Trump's plan to charge a fee for transit criticized by UN

U.S. resumes strikes on Iran while fighting for control of Strait of Hormuz

A U.S. airbase in Jordan was targeted by Iranian ballistic missiles on Tuesday, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said, while calling on Jordanians to dismantle American bases in the kingdom.

Jordan's armed forces said on Tuesday they intercepted and shot down four missiles that entered Jordanian airspace from Iranian territory, according to state news agency.

Bahrain also came under renewed attack early Tuesday morning as Iran retaliated over the latest round of U.S. airstrikes. Bahrain, home to the U.S. navy's 5th Fleet, sounded its missile alert sirens three times, urging people to seek shelter.

U.S. forces completed their latest wave of strikes on Iran that the U.S. Central Command began earlier in the day at the direction of President Donald Trump.

The Central Command said it struck areas around Abu Musa, Bandar Abbas, Bushehr, Chahbahar, Jask and Konarak, targeting Iranian "coastal defence systems, missile and drone sites and maritime capabilities." Iran acknowledged strikes around those areas, but provided no immediate casualty or damage assessments.

"These strikes will continue imposing a heavy cost on Iranian forces and degrade their ability to attack innocent civilians and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz," the U.S. military said.

Iranian media reported strikes on a number of the cities and said four people had been wounded and rescue operations were underway.

The five hours of U.S. strikes were the third consecutive night of attacks against Iran as Trump reinstated a blockade of Iranian shipping and proposed charging a 20 per cent fee to guard the Strait of Hormuz. It's a change in U.S. policy that, until now, said the strait should remain open to all without tolls.

"We're protecting a very rich portion of the world," Trump said at the White House. "We're spending money. And so, what we've done is, we are going to be reimbursed for protection."

The U.S. navy-led Joint Maritime Information Center said the blockade of Iran will apply to all vessels regardless of flag, covering the entire Iranian coastline including ports and oil terminals. It said the measure would not impede neutral transit passage through the strait to or from non-Iranian destinations, and that humanitarian shipments would be permitted subject to inspection.

Iran's top joint military command said the U.S. had no role in determining the future of the waterway. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi wrote ⁠on X that Tehran was the guardian of the strait and would remain so "forever."

Iran said over the weekend it was closing the Strait of Hormuz.

Before the conflict, around a fifth of the world's oil and gas traffic passed through Hormuz daily, delivering more than 15 million barrels of fuel to global markets worth at least $1.2 billion US. If the U.S. were to impose a 20 per cent ‌fee, it could generate around $240 million US a day.

The UN shipping agency pushed back against Trump's proposal, saying it opposes any fees for straits used in international navigation and stressing that there is no legal basis for introducing mandatory tolls on strait transits.

Quebec-based Desgagnes's two freighter ships are the only known Canadian commercial vessels that were stuck in the Gulf when the U.S. and Israel launched attacks on Iran in late February.

Desgagnes vice-president Pascal Larose said that U.S. navy officials in Bahrain have provided him with a route to steer clear of mines and pledged a measure of protection come departure day, but the "danger zone" will take 12 hours to sail through.

"It's a moving target," Larose said in a phone interview, stating that the exit hinges on American military authorities. He said most of the original crew members went home to the Philippines and Ukraine several weeks ago, with fresh crews now anxious to leave the area.

Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates's Ministry of Defence said early Tuesday that Iran attacked two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, killing one mariner from India and wounding eight others — six from India and two from Ukraine. The ministry said Iran launched two cruise missiles at the tankers Mombasa and Al Bahiyah. The attacks set both tankers ablaze, though the fires were extinguished.

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard claimed the attack on the tankers, saying the vessels "ignored repeated warnings." Its statement accused the U.S. of "inciting vessels to use an illegal route" and warned that cooperation with the "aggressor enemy" would result in damage, delays in reopening the waterway and a global energy crisis.

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The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency said a tanker had been hit by an unknown projectile while travelling 40 nautical ⁠miles northeast of Oman's Qalhat.

Reuters could not immediately verify whether that report referred to the same incident as the one reported by the UAE Ministry of Defence.

With the latest developments, the price of benchmark Brent crude oil rose to a one-month high of over $84 US in trading early Tuesday, still well below the nearly $120 US reached at the height of the war but threatening to make costs everywhere higher. The price was just over $72 US before the war started on Feb. 28, and dipped below $76 US last month when it appeared the U.S. and Iran had reached a memorandum of understanding to pause the fighting and continue negotiating on several outstanding issues.

With files from CBC News, the Canadian Press and the Associated Press