New Delhi, July 14 -- Iranian-bound cargo was banned again, effective 20:00 GMT. Within hours, Donald Trump declared the United States would charge every ship transiting the world's most critical oil chokepoint a 20 percent toll on all cargo and formally notified Congress, under the War Powers Resolution, that American military action against Iran had resumed.

The notification, transmitted to Capitol Hill on Monday, opened a constitutionally mandated 60-day window during which lawmakers have authority to vote to terminate the operation. The White House sent it three weeks after ceasefire diplomacy collapsed and four days after Trump declared on July 9 that the June MoU with Iran was "over," a determination he reached unilaterally as Iran...