US military reimpose blockade on Iranian ports

The U.S. military early Wednesday reimposed a blockade on Iranian ports over Tehran's attacks on ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz,

sparking new strikes on nations hosting American forces as an interim deal to end the war further unraveled.

Days of retaliatory strikes across the Middle East by Iran - and both nations' attempts to vie for control of the waterway

through which a fifth of the world's oil and natural gas passes during peacetime - threaten to push the region back to all-out war.