NYT: Washington warned Tehran Israel was plotting to kill Araghchi, Ghalibaf

Vessels Xin Long Yang, carrying about 2 million barrels of Saudi crude, and Rodos, loaded with around 700,000 barrels, changed course toward the Suez Canal instead of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, according to cited shipping data. The Houthis declared a naval blockade of Saudi ports on Monday.

Yanbu port loading continued per Reuters sources, while another vessel turned back and security firms issued transit advisories for the Red Sea.

Saudi Arabia condemned a Houthi announcement of a maritime blockade on its shipping, which the group described as a response to alleged restrictions on Yemen. The Saudi Foreign Ministry stated it would take necessary measures to protect its vessels, amid ongoing Houthi threats to Red Sea routes previously used as alternatives during disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Houthis cited an "eye for an eye" approach in their statement, while prior Houthi actions have affected commercial shipping in the region.

The US Department of Defense announced on Tuesday that Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was killed on Saturday during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way unmanned aerial system at Erbil airbase in Iraq.

Two other US soldiers, First Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas, were identified a day earlier as having died in Jordan while responding to Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks.

The department has reported a total of 17 US service member deaths and hundreds of injuries in the ongoing conflict that began in February.

Reports indicate ongoing U.S. and Iranian military strikes in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz, with the Trump administration stating openness to diplomacy while Iran continues to assert control over the shipping corridor. These actions have been linked in some accounts to the collapse of a prior ceasefire, U.

S. troop casualties, and higher gasoline prices. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is set to meet President Trump at the White House amid U.S.-mediated talks between Lebanon and Israel, following a June 26 framework agreement on Israeli withdrawals from southern Lebanon and Hezbollah disarmament.