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’.Iranian women walk next to an anti-US billboard at the Enghelab Square in central Tehran, Iran, on August 13, 2026 [Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA]By Caolán Magee, Edna Mohamed and Enes AbuomerPublished On 22 Aug 2026
Iran’s Foreign Ministry claims the latest US economic sanctions against Tehran are a “declaration of war” on all nations, representing “an attempt by the United States to exert extraterritorial sovereignty over all independent UN member states”.
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”.
