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“Relatives of terrorists have no business being in our country,” Cotton told Breitbart News. “My bill would revoke visas from family members of terrorists to keep Arkansans safer.”
The route crosses several sovereign states, including Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, making it much harder for the United States to disrupt than Persian Gulf shipping lanes.
Directly targeting the overland network could widen the conflict and raise tensions with Beijing, which has spent years building trade routes that bypass maritime choke points dominated by the US Navy.
The draft resolution calls on Iran to halt attacks and mining activity in the strategic waterway.
Moscow and Beijing blocked a similar US-backed resolution last month, arguing it unfairly targeted Iran.
“We don't think the content is right, and the timing is not right,” China’s UN envoy Fu Gong told Pass Blue news outlet when asked about the draft resolution.
“What we need is to urge both sides to engage in serious and good-faith negotiations that can resolve the issue. So passing a resolution at this stage, we don't think is going to be helpful,” he added.
In a sharply worded statement, the mission said the United States was exploiting the number of co-sponsors attached to the resolution to create a “false image” of international support for what it described as unlawful actions against Iran.
“Should the U.S. trigger any new escalation, all co-sponsoring States will share international responsibility alongside Washington for the consequences,” it said.
“No political excuse or diplomatic cover can absolve them of responsibility for facilitating, enabling, and legitimizing U.S. aggression.”
According to the report, the breaches involved automatic tank gauge systems, which help track fuel levels and detect leaks or other issues.
Officials told CNN there is no indication of physical damage so far, but warned that compromising such systems could create broader safety risks if problems go unnoticed.
US investigators reportedly suspect Iranian involvement partly because Iranian-linked cyber actors have previously targeted vulnerable infrastructure systems tied to energy and utilities.
Appearing on Fox News program The Story, Waltz described Beijing’s shift in posture as one of the major outcomes of Trump’s three-day visit to China.
Asked to explain what he meant, Waltz said Beijing had agreed on two key principles: “no nuclear weapons and no militarization of the Strait of Hormuz.”
