US and Israeli aircraft struck Iranian vessels south of Iran’s Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz, killing “several Iranian nationals,” Iran’s semi-official Fars
news agency reported on Tuesday.While the agency did not confirm the exact number of dead, some media reports said four people were killed in the strikes.
The reports come amid an ongoing ceasefire and increasing diplomatic efforts to bring the US-Israeli war on Iran to a permanent end.
On Tuesday, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said an agreement to end the war will “take a couple days” to finalise even as the parties inch closer to agreement on what it should look like.
“I think there’s strong alignment and agreement on what a preliminary draft should look like. I think, like anything with something like this, it’s going to take a couple days to settle on, even down to the disagreements over a word, sentence,” Rubio, who also doubles as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, told reporters en route to New Delhi.
“If there’s going to be a deal, we’re going to have to work through that, but this is, you know, it’s either going to be a good deal, or there isn’t going to be one,” he added.
