Trump’s Iran War Hits Six-Month Mark, Reuters Says Strait of Hormuz Disrupted

Six-month U.S.-Iran fallout

Six months after the start of the Iran war, Reuters reported that President Donald Trump’s “short trip” has become a crisis that threatens to undermine his presidency, with Iran not yielding and navigation through the Strait of Hormuz “highly disrupted.” Reuters said the conflict has produced six consequences, including that Trump’s approval rating fell from 40% to 33% since the conflict began as rising gasoline prices undercut his 2024 campaign promise to lower costs for Americans. Reuters also said the American and Israeli attacks sparked immediate panic and a sharp rise in oil prices, raising concerns about a global recession.

On the military side, Reuters reported that a May report from the Congressional Research Service stated that 42 U.S. military aircraft were lost in the conflict, and that the U.S. military lost drones and aircraft due to Iranian strikes and other incidents. Reuters further said Iran was targeted but not defeated, with Tehran still able to launch attacks and keep the Hormuz Strait under closure.

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Americans describe evacuation

As the U.S.-Iran conflict entered its sixth month, WHAM in Rochester, N.Y., aired accounts from people evacuated from the Middle East during the Iran and U.S. conflict. Tommy Mach, a Fairport resident and retired Marine, said he was in Abu Dhabi on a business trip when things “suddenly became serious,” adding that “nobody really kind of took it too seriously until it was kind of too late.” Mach described the days leading up to his flight home as “a game of musical airports,” and said it frustrates him that the war is still ongoing and “it shouldn’t have begun in the first place.”

Local business owner Pouya Seifzadeh, who is Iranian, Canadian, and American, said, “This is not a regime that you can trust,” and argued that Iran has been pursuing nuclear weapons from the 1990s. Seifzadeh said he moved to safety while keeping in touch with family in Iran, and he warned, “Iran will never stop pursuing this regime.”

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Strikes, sanctions, and threats

In the Strait of Hormuz theater, 20Minutos reported that the United States carried out on Sunday a “precision” strike against two platforms used to launch rockets equipped with sea mines on Iran’s Larak Island, and that the operation was posted by the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on X.

20Minutos said Iran responded by claiming it attacked two U.S. bases in Jordan in the early hours of this Monday, while the Jordanian Army confirmed its defense systems intercepted eight missiles and reported no damages or fatalities.

In the same reporting, CENTCOM said the placement of the mines by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps represented an “imminent threat” at the strategic passage, and it added that the operation was not “an act of aggression.”

In a separate account, 6abc Philadelphia said a U.S. strike hit a home hosting a wedding, killing two people and wounding dozens, and it quoted Trump warning that if Iran retaliates “they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level.”

6abc Philadelphia also reported that Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff and joint military command said the armed forces would deliver what they described as “crushing and devastating blows” against the United States.

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