Event·Military

Iran warns of maritime exclusion zone, strikes on U.S. Gulf energy assets

08 SEP 2026 · 2100Z

Iran threatened to respond to U.S. "economic warfare" with a maritime exclusion zone across the Persian Gulf, while Iranian-backed Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia escalated tensions around regional energy supplies. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Coun…