Two US Navy destroyers, the USS Frank E. Peterson and USS Michael Murphy, transited the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday as part of mine-clearing operations. First American warship passage since Iran mined the waterway on February 28. This happened while VP Vance and Iran's parliament speaker were sitting in Islamabad roughly 2,000 miles away for the first direct US-Iran talks since 1979.
Iran's state TV claimed the IRGC issued a 30-minute warning and one destroyer "turned back." US officials flatly denied it, telling Axios both ships completed the full transit. Underwater drones are expected to join the clearance effort in the coming days. Quite a move to send warships through a mined strait while your VP is at the peace table.