Iran threatens to attack U.S. forces escorting ships throught Strait of Hormuz

Iran's military warned Monday that U.S. forces will be attacked if they begin escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz. 

The warnings, by a top commander in the Iranian military and reported in state-run media, follow President Donald Trump's post on Truth Social on Sunday saying that U.S. would begin guiding ships from other nations out of the strait, on which Iran has an eastern shore and is a major oil shipping channel. 

The U.S. and Iran have been at war since Feb. 28. 

A U.S.-led maritime task force said Monday that the U.S. would set up an "enhanced security area" and that vessels sailing through the strait should use Oman's territorial waters, which are south of the normal shipping routes, The Washington Post reported. 

How the security area will be enhanced wasn't explained, but according to Axios, U.S. Navy ships won't be escorting commercial ships through the strait. Instead, the ships would be nearby in order to prevent Iran's forces from attacking the commercial vessels. The U.S. would also provide the ships with information on the safest lanes to use.