2026-07-09
10 分钟This is The Guardian.
It's clear that Trump is trying to sort of escalate out of this.
We just hit him very hard, and I'd say we hit him 20 to 1. Every time they hit us,
we're going to hit him 20. Two railway bridges have been hit between Tehran and Masha.
Both sides, I think, would want to find a way of climbing down.
From The Guardian today in Focus, this is The Latest with me, Lucy Hoth.
Donald Trump has said the truce with Iran is over as the US has struck
170 sites in Iran over the past two nights.
Julian Borgia, you are our senior international correspondent.
We're speaking to you from Jerusalem.
What caused this escalation?
Well, on Monday night, Tuesday morning, Iran appears to have struck three ships were going through the Strait of Hormuz.
And what seems to have happened is these ships, which included an oil tanker and an LNG gas tanker,
were going along a route that hadn't been approved by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the IRGC.
And that seems to be, at the crux of it, control of the strait.
OK.
Yes, because control of the strait is clearly...
You know, the big issue or was the big issue in terms of finding some kind of truce ceasefire.
But that it was quite broadly written, wasn't it?
And I think contained many holes that we're starting to see now.