Iran's deputy political director of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' navy, Mohammad Akbarzadeh, said Tehran had redrawn the boundaries of the Strait of Hormuz to stretch from Sirri Island to Jask, increasing the Iranian definition of the strait's width tenfold, Reuters reported on May 12. Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump said the fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire is on "massive life support" on May 11, a day after he rejected Iran's response to the U.S. proposal to end the war.
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