Iran War Timeline: Key Moments and Attacks In U.S. and Israel’s Campaign

The United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, starting a monthslong war that spread to neighboring countries and rocked global markets. By Yeganeh Torbati Aaron Boxerman Steven Erlanger and Eric Nagourney Anyone who imagined that reports in recent days of Iran and Oman being near an agreement on reopening the Strait of Hormuz meant that it might actually reopen, and that oil and other critical commercial traffic would soon resume, now knows better. The strait, which Iran effectively shut down in retaliation for the war launched by the United States and Israel in February, will remain closed for business, a top Iranian official said Sunday. “An agreement with Oman does not mean reopening the strait,” said the official, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. In keeping with negotiations that have progressed as fitfully as the ships stranded by the conflict, Iran on Saturday issued a sweeping list of demands it said would have to be met before vessels could move again, and world markets could get some much-needed reassurance.

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