Trump reports renewed Iran hostilities and shipping fees

BBC gives the most complete account of the shipping-fee story: Trump “reversed his threat of a 20% fee,” replaced it with “Trade and Investment Deals” from Gulf states, and resumed a blockade on Iranian ports. The NYT headline/deck also centers the reversal, saying Trump “Flip-Flops” and “now wants Gulf nations to invest in the U.S. in exchange for safe passage.” None of the right-leaning pieces carries the 20% number, the Gulf investment swap, or the BBC detail that the strait is “open to ALL Ship traffic except for Iran.” Daily Wire instead focuses on Trump’s warning that “power plants” and “bridges” could be next; Breitbart focuses on Michael McFaul calling the strategy “absurd”; OAN is on Todd Blanche’s attorney-general confirmation and does not cover Iran or Hormuz. The reverse omission is narrower but real: Daily Wire’s quoted Trump line, “Next week it gets really bad for them because next week comes the power plants, next week comes the bridges,” does not appear in BBC or the NYT excerpt. Word choice is also split. The same policy reversal is “scraps threat” at BBC, “Flip-Flops” at NYT, and, in Trump’s own wording quoted by BBC, the abandoned toll becomes a “United States Reimbursement Fee.” On the military side, BBC uses Centcom’s purpose language — strikes to “continue degrading Iranian capabilities used to attack commercial shipping” — while Breitbart foregrounds a critical outsider’s phrase that the U.S. looks “like a rogue state.” One missing answer runs through all the Iran-focused coverage: no outlet states what authority lets Trump impose or replace a shipping fee, resume a blockade, or continue strikes, and none gives the text or substance of any notice to Congress.