DONALD Trump has insisted the Iran war is "close to over" - as the US military heaps praise on its thwarted Strait of Hormuz blockade. Several menacing ghost ships were able to slip through the net within hours of the US Navy imposing the blockade, as Tehran's tyrants strive to keep their stalling war machine...

AT LEAST four Iran-linked vessels have sneakily skirted around Donald Trump's Strait of Hormuz blockade - with China blasting the siege as "dangerous and irresponsible". Trump has threatened to sink any ship that dares to defy the blockade, adding that US forces will employ “the same system of kill” used against drug trafficking boats in...

CHINA has brazenly breezed past Donald Trump's Strait of Hormuz blockade - with its US-sanctioned tanker passing by American warships unchallenged. The US Navy has deployed a fearsome armada of destroyers, sonar ships and minesweepers to the 24-mile wide chokepoint, daring enemy vessels to try flouting the blockade. But today China's Rich Starry tanker - which...