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Iran defends Hormuz stance:** Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Almigdad Alruhaid said Iranian officials reject suggestions they are using the Strait of Hormuz as a weapon, insisting vessels can still move safely through routes
Strait of Hormuz to forcing Iran to negotiate, while warning of military action if negotiations fail. - The mixed messaging has unsettled markets, but some analysts argue the strategy shows calculated pressure and a willingness
strait of Hormuz, boots on the ground could – at least initially – fall short of an incursion on to the mainland, and be limited instead to occupying one or more of several islands in the Gulf
ships through the Strait of Hormuz was always going to produce a reaction from Iran. This week's urgent question is whether it ends there or whether more action and reaction power a slide back
Hormuz, through which a fifth of all traded oil and natural gas once passed in peacetime, as well as fighting between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah. With global energy supplies threatened, Iran still
ships to pass through the strategic Strait of Hormuz, state television has reported, because “many countries have accepted the new legal protocols” it has put in place. ## War diplomacy - ****China signals likely veto on Hormuz
Hormuz. After the start of the war on 28 February, Iran largely closed the strait, throwing global markets into turmoil and driving up oil prices. The US later imposed its own blockade of Iranian ports
Hormuz” –** a claim that has drawn scepticism in the face of Iran’s seizure of two container ships and a US report warning it could take six months to clear the strait of mines. - **Israel
attacks of its own. The US and Iran agreed a ceasefire in April, but sporadic exchanges of fire have continued. President Donald Trump [said the truce was on "massive life support" on Monday](https://www.bbc.co.uk
Hormuz, which in effect has been blocked by Iran since the US-Israel war on the country began on February 28. According to US media, its core functions would be to share intelligence among member
strait of Hormuz shipping channel were among the factors cited by the BRC. Customers can still find bargains on TV and audiovisual equipment, it said, as retailers target football fans getting “World Cup ready
Iran’s control over shipping in the strait of Hormuz and vowing to guard the country’s nuclear and missile programmes. 2. ***Environment*** | Governments have been asked to develop national “roadmaps” setting out how they
Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping channel that has been [effectively closed](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy02rz27l32o) since the conflict started in late February. Fox News quoted Trump on Wednesday as saying that an Iranian drone
Strait of Hormuz, through which some 20% of the world's oil and gas supplies are transported, during the ongoing conflict. US forces have disabled eight vessels and redirected 134 others since initiating the blockade
Iran project director for the International Crisis Group think tank, told the BBC the Iranian response to the operation - which included shooting at ships and launching attacks on targets in the UAE - probably persuaded Trump
strait of Hormuz by Iran and the US. Trump had imposed a blockade on Iranian ports in response to Iran’s decision to charge tolls on merchant shipping crossing the strategic waterway, and on Sunday
strait of Hormuz, in terms of its compliance with freedom of navigation for all merchant vessels and secure passage,” Arsenio Dominguez, secretary-general of UN shipping agency the International Maritime Organization (IMO), said. Regional diplomats
shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Referring to the latest proposal, [Trump](/news/2026/5/10/iran-sends-response-to-us-proposal-to-end-war-via-mediator-pakistan) said the ceasefire is “the weakest right now after reading that piece of garbage they sent us.” “I didn’t even finish
attacked Iran on Feb. 28, killing top Iranian officials including its supreme leader and interrupting nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran for the second time in less than a year. Iran fired at Israel
attacks by the Yemen-based Houthis in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Gulf of Aden with the Red Sea, has created an opportunity. More recently, naval patrols of some nations that previously