THE United States carried out strikes on Iran early today, hours after President Donald Trump vowed to reinstate a US blockade of Iranian ports and charge ships for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran responded with attacks on regional allies of Washington.

The latest exchange of fire leaves in tatters an interim deal meant to pause the fighting, reopen a waterway that is key to world energy supplies and give negotiators time to hammer out a permanent end to the war.

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