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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Iran fired on three ships in the\u00a0Strait of Hormuz<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Wednesday, intensifying its assault on shipping in the waterway crucial to global energy supplies and complicating already faltering efforts to bring the United States and Iran together for talks to end the war.<\/p>\n The attacks were carried out by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, according to Iranian media, which reported that the force seized two of the ships and was bringing them to Iran.<\/p>\n That amounted to an escalation by Iran\u2019s leaders, who appear poised to drive a harder bargain with American negotiators after President Donald Trump said the U.S. would\u00a0indefinitely extend the ceasefire with Iran<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that had been due to expire Wednesday.<\/p>\n Despite the extension, Trump also seemed to dig in, saying the U.S. would continue to blockade Iranian ports.<\/p>\n