US media: US military will board and inspect Iranian-related ships and detain merchant ships in the next few days

According to Kim Shi, citing the Wall Street Journal, U.S. officials said that the U.S. military is preparing to board and inspect Iranian-related oil tankers and seize merchant ships in international waters in the next few days, expanding the scope of its naval strikes beyond the Middle East.<br /> The plan comes as the Iranian military continues to tighten control of the Strait of Hormuz, attacking multiple merchant ships on Saturday and declaring the waterway is being "strictly controlled" by Iran. These developments caught shipping companies off guard, just a day after Iran's foreign minister announced that the strait had been fully opened to merchant ships, a statement praised by President Trump.