Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday renewed U.S. calls for global partners to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz following a brief exchange of fire the previous day that threatened to derail the monthlong ceasefire in the Iran war . President Donald Trump , who on Monday ordered American naval forces to begin escorting merchant vessels through the waterway, said Iranian forces had fired upon a South Korean cargo ship. In response, the U.S. military struck seven fast boats , he said. They

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