US strikes oil tankers, Tehran claims attacks on US-linked vessels

The ceasefire agreement concluded between Iran and the U.S. in June has proven unstable and too fragile, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday.

"We welcomed the signing of the Iranian-American ceasefire memorandum in June of this year, but unfortunately, the ceasefire proved unstable and too fragile," Putin said.

"In this difficult period, we're trying to provide you with the necessary support, we talked with you about this, we're supplying you with goods that you need," Putin said.

Pezeshkian said Tehran remained ready for diplomacy, but only if Washington returned to its obligations under the June agreement.

Responding to Putin, Pezeshkian said, "We appreciate and thank you for your positions at every stage, both during the period when the fighting and acts of aggression were taking place and under normal circumstances, when the United States was imposing sanctions on us, both at the United Nations and in international forums."

"If the United States returns to its commitments under the aforementioned memorandum of understanding, the Islamic Republic of Iran will immediately reciprocate," Pezeshkian said.

A tanker reported being struck by three "unknown projectiles" off the coast of Oman "whilst completing an outbound transit of the Strait of Hormuz," the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said Monday.

"No casualties or environmental impact has been reported," UKMTO said. "Authorities are investigating."

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Iran is taking the economic sanctions the U.S. threatened "seriously," and he blamed the recent renewed strikes on the economic pressure from the U.S

“They're taking them very seriously,” Bessent said. “If you look back, what the Iranian political leadership has said over the past 10 days, they're in shock at the state of their economy, and you know, we are seeing gas lines -- could you imagine a country in the world with the third largest amount of energy resources has to import gasolines, and they now have three, four-hour gas lines that go through the night? So I would think that they are lashing out kinetically because they are losing economically.”

Asked whether the sanctions could slow American growth and whether the actions against Iran are creating global economic uncertainty, Bessent said no.

"The U.S. growth is quite strong, and global growth, we will get to the other side of this Iran conflict, and the world will be better for that,” Bessent said. “And in terms of certainty, we have we have the tariff deals with the countries, and we are seeing quite strong global growth. We believe that the countries need to take substantial deregulation, energy security, which the Iran conflict has highlighted.”

-ABC News’ Michelle Stoddart

President Donald Trump told Fox News that the U.S. will respond to Iran's attacks on American forces in Jordan.

"We're going to hit them hard," Trump said, according to Fox News. "There will be a response."

Trump said Iran aimed strikes at U.S. forces in Jordan on Sunday night and he said all the missiles except one were intercepted by American air defense systems. That one missile "was identified as not going to hit anything significant, and they allowed it to pass through the airspace," the president said, according to Fox News.

Trump also said Iranians want to "meet so badly," though he said he "doesn't know if you can count on them to make a deal."

-ABC News’ Michelle Stoddart