India, Sept. 9 -- US-Israel-Iran War Latest Live News: The waters around the Strait of Hormuz have once again become the centre of a rapidly widening US-Iran confrontation, with Tehran claiming fresh attacks on American vessels and oil tankers after Washington destroyed five Iranian crude carriers. The latest exchange has pushed the conflict deeper into the Gulf, raising new risks for commercial shipping and sending oil prices closer to the psychologically important $100-a-barrel mark.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said its forces targeted two American vessels and eight oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. The claim came shortly after the US military confirmed that it had destroyed five Iranian crude oil carriers follow...