Hormuz shipping in focus as Iran-US rhetoric heats up

Iran and the United States have offered clashing narratives over ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, even as they maintain contact through mediators. Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei vowed revenge for the assassination of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the war launched by the US and Israel on February 28. At the funeral in Mashhad, crowds shouted 'Negotiations with the enemy is betraying the homeland,' while chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf attended.