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countries would end up competing against each other in a zero-sum game. This would reduce the influence the GCC has as a regional bloc and diminish its ability to sway energy markets. Up until
Strait of Hormuz. “If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social on Saturday, signalling that Washington for now would not send negotiators
meetings in the lead-up to it”. The [Times story](https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/iran-war-hormuz-uk-supermarkets-food-shortages-chicken-g620j8xrg), by **Aubrey Allegretti**, is not saying that the country is going to run out of food. But it does say that serious
involved too much travel and expense to consider an inadequate offer from the Iranians. The following day, Trump said Iran could telephone if it wanted to negotiate an end to the war that began
country’s government made it clear there would be **no direct negotiations with American government representative**s during this visit. Foreign ministry spokesperson Esmael Baqaei said on X that, “No meeting is planned to take
meeting of his security cabinet to discuss renewing the conflict with Iran. Despite [billions of dollars](/news/2026/5/12/pentagon-gives-new-29bn-iran-war-price-tag-downplays-munitions-concerns) in Israeli and US ordnance thrown at Iran, the government in Tehran remains in place. Iran’s deterrence
country’s southern coast, as tensions continue to escalate around the strategic waterway. US Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces intercepted “unprovoked Iranian attacks” and responded with “self-defence strikes”, while Iranian state media reported
Hormuz, a key shipping channel through which 20% of the world's oil and liquid natural gas usually passes, has sent oil prices soaring since the conflict began. Earlier this month, government officials drew
Hormuz](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/trump-project-freedom-saudi-arabia-strait-of-hormuz). And on Wednesday the US military fired on an Iranian-flagged oil tanker hours after Trump issued a fresh ultimatum to Tehran, telling it to accept a deal
strait of Hormuz and Xi’s apparent interest in buying US oil to reduce China’s dependence on Middle East supplies. In other developments: - **Trump told Fox News that China had agreed to order
Strait of Hormuz,” he said. Feng Chucheng, founding partner of the Beijing-based Hutong Research, said a further escalation in the war “would threaten China’s economic and energy security to a degree that could
involving Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and possibly Egypt, according to officials familiar with the discussions. It would be the third such meeting in a month, following earlier rounds of talks in Riyadh and Islamabad. The goal
countries, brokered first in April by Islamabad. But for thousands of seafarers, stranded on either side of the Strait of Hormuz, peace remains elusive. The attacks on ships with Indian sailors is also the latest
countries have been insistent that Iran should not be allowed to impose tolls on shipping in the strait. Iran’s Fars news agency, which is close to the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, stated that
involving the Houthis had already turned vessels away from the Red Sea and Suez Canal since 2023. Now the rival restrictions on transit through the Strait of Hormuz, imposed by Iran and the US, have
Hormuz; and a rapid fall in imports to China, which some analysts believe may reflect Beijing drawing down stockpiles. But the International Energy Agency (IEA), whose executive director, Fatih Birol, has been sounding the alarm
involved in negotiations with the US.** The bold claims were made during an interview on the New York Post’s Pod Force One podcast published this morning, **as violence erupted in the Gulf once again
strait of Hormuz, has led to a global shortage of oil and gas and triggered the worst energy crisis in history. It was Pakistan’s mediation efforts on Tuesday night that [finally pushed
involved in the talks which have been mostly mediated by Pakistan and are meant to lead to an extension of the ceasefire and the start of negotiations on key issues, including Iran's nuclear programme
country … whose national interests are advanced by the perpetuation of this conflict,” Ali Wyne, a senior adviser at the International Crisis Group, said in a briefing last week. While “China is much better prepared than