The deployment includes sailors and Marines due to arrive as the administration attempts to enforce a maritime blockade against the regime in Tehran.

The US and Iran are closer to extending a ceasefire and restarting negotiations about a longer team peace deal, the Associated Press reported, even as a standoff intensifies over the Strait of Hormuz.

Despite rising energy prices and Dem pressure, President Donald Trump still has rock-solid support from Senate Republicans on the Iran war.

Trump said U.S.-Iran talks may resume this week. U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz confronted six vessels. The International Monetary Fund said the war with Iran is taking a toll on the global economy.

The president threatened ships that attempt to come close to the U.S. naval blockade will be “immediately ELIMINATED.”

In a social media post earlier Sunday, Trump said the U.S. will blockade the shipping route, marking an escalation in the more than six-week-long war.

President Donald Trump warned on ⁠Monday ⁠that any Iranian "fast-attack" ships that go ⁠near a U.S. maritime "blockade" on Iran would be eliminated, and he said ​the U.S. would not allow Tehran to "extort the world.

Donald Trump says the U.S.-Iran war is "very close" to an end amid a two-week ceasefire, as U.S. and Iranian negotiators prepare to restart peace talks Thursday.