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Middle East crisis live: US claims blockade has ‘completely halted economic trade’ into Iran, as Trump hints at return to talks in Pakistan

blockade began. Salvatore Mercogliano, a maritime historian and an associate professor at Campbell University in North Carolina, said “the Trump Administration talks a lot about ships coming through the Strait but there is no indication

Why has Italy’s Giorgia Meloni suspended a defence pact with Israel?

Gaza, which [a United Nations inquiry says](/news/2025/9/16/first-head-of-united-nations-body-declares-israels-gaza-war-a-genocide) amounts to genocide, and it has refused to recognise Palestinian statehood.  But relations between Israel and Italy have soured recently. On Monday, the Italian ambassador

Mediators push to extend U.S.-Iran ceasefire

blockade of Iranian ports. ![A man stands onshore with the Greek-flagged crude oil tanker "Asahi Princess" off the coast of the Syrian Baniyas port refinery, along the Mediterranean Sea on April

Can Pakistan secure Iran-US nuclear compromise, as Trump says deal ‘close’?

blockade of Iranian ports would continue “as long as it takes,” he said, adding that Washington remained “locked and loaded” on Iran’s energy infrastructure. ## Lebanon factor and regional linkages A development on the Lebanon

Middle East crisis live: Iran weighs Pakistan talks with US, and claims it has ‘new cards for battlefield’

blockade until Iran had agreed to a deal and that he believed the nuclear deal the US was negotiating with Tehran would be better than a 2015 international agreement to curb Tehran’s nuclear program

Iran war: What is happening on day 48 of the US-Iran conflict?

blockade, with none leaving Iranian ports. - **US Congress divisions:** The Senate rejected efforts to limit US involvement in the war and blocked measures targeting arms sales to Israel, though growing opposition signals shifting political pressure

Iran war: What is happening on day 53 of the US-Israel conflict?

blockades of the Strait of Hormuz “a mistake on both sides”. - Russia called for the US-Iran ceasefire to be extended beyond its expiry on Wednesday. - China, the main buyer of Iranian oil, expressed “concern

Second round in Islamabad: Who’s at the US-Iran negotiating table?

blockade remains. The current diplomatic track predates the outbreak of the US-Israel war on Iran, which began on February 28. While some figures at the table led indirect talks before the conflict, another

Iran war: What is happening on day 47 of the US-Iran conflict?

blockade of Iranian ports has been fully implemented” and that US forces maintain maritime superiority in the Middle East. - The US president lashed out at Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, one of his closest

Middle East crisis live: Iran warns it will close strait of Hormuz if US blockade continues

blockade continued and that Trump had made multiple false claims on Friday. Trump later said he might end the ceasefire with Iran and “start dropping bombs again” if a long-term deal

What to know about US-Iran standoff over the Strait of Hormuz

blockade violates the terms of the ceasefire. Trump on Saturday said that the US was having “very good conversations” with Iran, but he noted that Tehran wanted to close the important oil corridor again

Could the US-Iran war become a protracted ‘frozen’ conflict?

blockade of the Strait of Hormuz to ships not paying a toll has been felt in the US, where the average price of petrol at the pump has reached nearly $4.18 a gallon

Iran war’s big winners: Wall Street, weapons firms, AI and green energy

blockade of Iranian ports. In the worst-case scenario of a prolonged war, the IMF said global growth could fall to 2.5 percent in 2026, with low-income and developing economies hit the hardest

Middle East crisis live: Witkoff and Kushner head to Pakistan for Iran negotiations

Gaza Strip. **A US-Kuwaiti journalist** **who was detained in Kuwait for online posts related to the [Iran](https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran) war has been released** **and has left the Gulf nation**, after being acquitted