NOW PLAYING
Vice President Vance said Saturday there was no evidence that Iran had blocked off the Strait of Hormuz even as the Middle East country’s top joint military command announced that it would shutter the key waterway.
In an interview with “Fox & Friends Weekend” early Saturday, Vance responded to reports saying Iran’s naval forces were blocking ship traffic in the strait, saying the passage was still open.
He pointed to what he described as a record-breaking amount of oil moving through the critical trading corridor over the last 24 hours, suggesting that the strait was not closed.
“One of the things the president has set us out to do as a high priority is to open the Strait. That’s now happened,” Vance said in the interview.
“We actually got 16 million barrels of oil out of the Strait of Hormuz yesterday. That is a record going back to even before the conflict started,” he added. “So you’re seeing those ships move.”
Vance also confirmed in the interview that special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are currently in Switzerland ahead of planned talks on Sunday to reach an agreement to end the war.
But Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said Israel’s targeted attacks on the Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah breached a ceasefire agreement that went into effect hours before.
“In view of the United States’ bad faith and its clear breach of its commitments by failing to implement the first article of the memorandum ending the war, and in response to the continuous and ongoing violation of the ceasefire by the Zionist regime in southern Lebanon… It hereby announces that the Strait of Hormuz will be closed to the passage of vessels,” the military command said in a statement broadcast by Iranian state media.
Days earlier, President Trump signed a 14-point memorandum of understanding with Iran that reopened the strait, which was closed for months during the war band caused energy prices to surge.
The Hill reached out to the White House for comment.
Israeli strikes targeting southern Lebanon killed at least 16 people and wounded 12, according to the Lebanese Civil Defense.
The Israeli military confirmed the overnight attacks in Lebanon, citing retaliation after “Hezbollah launched 50+ projectiles toward” Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers “operating in southern Lebanon.”
“In order to remove threats & in response to Hezbollah’s blatant violations, the IDF struck dozens of Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure sites & terrorists in southern Lebanon throughout the night,” the IDF said in a statement.
Add as preferred source on Google Tags Donald Trump Jared Kushner JD Vance Steve WitkoffCopyright 2026 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Comments: Link copiedMore Administration News
See All
Administration Trump cracks a joke; Vance may pay the price on Iran by Amie Parnes 1 hour ago Administration / 1 hour ago 
