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President Donald Trump departs after speaking with reporters about the war in Iran during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Monday, April 6, 2026.<\/span>Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n In a Truth Social tirade<\/span> on Sunday morning, President Donald Trump claimed<\/a> that Iran violated their ceasefire agreement with the US by firing shots at ships in the Strait of Hormuz and again threatened to commit war crimes by taking out the country\u2019s energy infrastructure.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMany of [the bullets] were aimed at a French Ship, and a Freighter from the United Kingdom,\u201d Trump contended about Iran\u2019s targeting of the ships, without evidence. \u201cThat wasn\u2019t nice, was it?\u201d<\/p>\n The US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire in early April. The agreement is set to expire later this week, and the US continues to negotiate next steps around access to the Strait\u2014the world\u2019s most important oil transit corridor<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it,\u201d Trump wrote in the same social media post. \u201cIf they don\u2019t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!\u201d<\/p>\n International law experts consider strikes on infrastructure\u2014even if they qualify as military targets\u2014to be war crimes<\/a> because they cause disproportionate harm to civilians.\u00a0<\/p>\n On Saturday, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations organization, developed by Britain\u2019s Royal Navy, reported two incidents<\/a> of ships being hit in the Strait of Hormuz. Those ships, along with several others, turned back. The two vessels appear to both belong to India, according to India\u2019s ministry of external affairs<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n This reported attack took place the day after Iran re-established an effective closure of the strait on Saturday, overturning its announcement less than 24 hours before to \u201ccompletely open<\/a>\u201d the shipping waterway during the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to Al Jazeera<\/em><\/a>, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy explained on Saturday that the nation decided to close the strait until the US withdraws its blockade on all ships entering and leaving Iranian ports<\/a>. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran\u2019s parliamentary speaker, said in a television interview that the blockade, which began last week, was \u201ca clumsy and ignorant decision\u201d and violated the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened<\/a> that ships attempting to cross the strait during Iran\u2019s closure would be considered in \u201ccooperation with the enemy\u201d and \u201cany violating vessels would be targeted.\u201d\u00a0That same day, reports began to come out of the two ships hit in the strait. <\/p>\n Trump announced in the same Truth Social message that US officials will arrive in Pakistan on Monday to resume negotiations with Iran. According to the Associated Press<\/a>, Iran did not immediately confirm whether they would send representatives to meet the US delegation.\u00a0If JD Vance\u2019s failed negotiations with Iran<\/a> last week are anything to go by, it doesn\u2019t seem like an agreement will happen anytime soon.<\/p>\n More than 3,000 people<\/a> have been killed in Iran as of April 9 since US and Israeli strikes began at the end of February, according to Iran\u2019s forensic chief. The US military has confirmed 13 combat-related deaths<\/a> in the region.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n