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;Resize=(620)) U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would hold ?Iran accountable for any attacks by Yemen's Houthi militants, who ?said this week they ?were imposing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia.
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The recent rebound reflects traders' growing concern about the expanding war, which now extends from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea.
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The price of Brent crude, now up about 40 percent this month, surged Thursday after Iran's Houthi allies in Yemen claimed strikes on Saudi tankers.
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Oil prices rose Thursday to their highest level since early June after the latest Iran war escalation threatened severe new disruption to global supplies.
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The president has attended two previous dignified transfers since the war began; this is the first since he declared the ceasefire over.
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The risk of continued fighting and a threatened blockade in the Red Sea added to uncertainty about the flow of energy from the region.
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The seriously wounded service members are among the roughly 100 American troops that the Defense Department recently said were injured by Iranian attacks since early July.
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