Tehran and Washington continue “sporadic” exchanges of fire as they vie for control of the strategic waterway The US military has attacked two more Iranian-flagged oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman as Washington presses ahead with a “freedom of navigation” blockade, while Tehran has compared control of the Strait of Hormuz to possessing an “atomic bomb.” US Central Command said on Friday that American forces struck two “unladen” Iranian tankers, the M/T Sea Star III and the M/T Sevda, which it claimed were attempting to “violate” the US blockade by entering an Iranian port. Iranian armed forces allegedly responded to “the violation of the ceasefire and to American terrorism with strikes,” a military official told local media, but the US military did not report any damage. The Strait of Hormuz has become one of Tehran’s main bargaining chips, after Iran shut the waterway early in the war, stranding hundreds of vessels and roiling energy markets.…