00:00A battle over the Strait of Hormuz between the U.S. and Iran fell quiet over the weekend.
00:05But the conflict broadened with fresh strikes further afield as both Yemen and Ukraine appeared to enter the fight.
00:12As the president said, we are locked and loaded.
00:14Even more assets are going into theater, but he's giving talk some space.
00:19The American envoy to the United Nations on Sunday told Fox News President Donald Trump was once again giving diplomacy
00:24a chance.
00:25The U.S. military on Saturday said its naval blockade against Iran remained, quote, in full effect.
00:31It released footage it said it showed forces on Friday boarding and disabling a ship it said attempted to run
00:36the embargo.
00:37In parallel with the pause in American strikes, there were also no weekend reports of attacks by Iran on neighboring
00:43countries.
00:43But the fight flared elsewhere. Black smoke rose over Juzan in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.
00:51The Houthi faction in Yemen, which is allied with Iran, said it targeted Saudi energy facilities over the weekend.
00:57The Houthis declared a naval blockade of Saudi Arabia over the past week, further threatening global energy supplies.
01:03Yemen's Saudi-backed government struck Houthi targets over the weekend.
01:07And Tehran on Saturday condemned what it said was a Ukrainian attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian
01:13Sea.
01:14It said the explosion killed one sailor.
01:19That denunciation coincided with comments by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that accused Kiev's enemy, Moscow, of passing satellite intelligence to
01:28its ally, Iran.
01:30The pause in U.S. strikes on Iran may be welcome news to energy markets, but it's unclear how long
01:35it will last.
01:36The New York Times on Saturday reported Trump has decided, for now, to back away from plans to ramp up
01:41attacks on Iran.
01:42The newspaper reported Trump's advisers raised concerns over depleting U.S. stockpiles of defensive weapons.
01:48Asked about the pause, a senior official in President Donald Trump's administration said Trump, quote,
01:53has always been clear that his preference is diplomacy, but he has shown Iran what will happen if they fail
01:58to come to the table in a serious way.
