Skip linksSkip to Content Live Navigation menuNewsAfricaAsiaUS & CanadaLatin AmericaEuropeAsia PacificMiddle EastExplainedSportOpinionVideoFeaturesEconomyHuman RightsClimate CrisisInvestigationsInteractivesIn PicturesScience & TechnologyPodcastsTravelSponsored Content Live Navigation menuIsrael attacks LebanonIsrael bombs LebanonWhat is Lebanon’s Beaufort Castle?Has Hezbollah been weakened?Why is Israel attacking Nabatieh?Live updates, US president says Iran ‘would love to make a deal, but they’re not ready to make the right deal in my opinion’.Trump speaks during a meeting with technology leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday [File: Jacquelyn Martin/AP]By Zaid Sabah and Zsombor PeterPublished On 22 Aug 2026
US President Donald Trump says he “views the Strait of Hormuz as an American territory right now” and that Iran “would love to make a deal, but they’re not ready to make the right deal in my opinion”.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Araghchi says the latest US threats of economic warfare are “doomed to fail”, and that sanctions proposed by US
