President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed the toll on American sailors enduring nearly nine months at sea on the USS Abraham Lincoln as concerns escalated about mental health and supply issues aboard the aircraft carrier supporting U.

Trump also argued that higher gas prices have been worth it in the pursuit of preventing Iran from having a nuclear weapon. Follow for the latest news updates.

Experts tell BBC Verify pollution has spread from a ship attacked on 3 August and threatens vulnerable wildlife.

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Oil inched higher on Friday after the U.S. threatened to maintain a naval blockade of Iran indefinitely after prices fell in the previous session on a weaker global demand outlook.

Faced with an increasingly bellicose Iran as talks to end the war have stalled, the Trump administration appears to be reaching out to a broader swath of countries that might be able to help pressure Tehran or ease its hardline position where traditional mediators have not succeeded so far.

Keeping gas prices low is now the United States’ “goal number one” in the Iran war, Vice President JD Vance has said, as Washington threatened an indefinite naval blockade and signaled it would soon intensify economic pressure on Tehran.

The fragile monthlong ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran appears set to expire Monday absent a last-minute deal to extend it and potentially end the war between the two nations. A senior White House official,