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Oil prices fell to a three-week low on Tuesday as senior US officials raised hopes of a deal with Iran to reopen the key Strait of Hormuz waterway

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It is now clear the United States is sinking into the quagmire of its war with Iran with no clear idea of how to get out. More than five months of intermittent bombing of Iran have not brought Tehran any closer to surrender. Recurring threats by US President Donald Trump to launch a massive military…

Traffic in the Strait of Hormuz reached new lows on Friday as President Trump suggested that the path to ending the war and reopening the all-but-closed waterway could be weeks away

Discussions over the future of the Strait of Hormuz continued on Tuesday as Iran’s Foreign Ministry said it had held talks on the strategically vital maritime passage with Saudi and Omani counterparts

Yemen’s Houthi movement is aiming to replicate Iran’s ⁠strategy in the Strait of Hormuz by controlling shipping flows in the Red Sea’s Bab al-Mandeb Strait, the Yemeni government’s top diplomat warns

Here are the latest developments concerning the Iran war and the wider Middle East on Monday, July 27

Iran has accused the United States of trying to force open a new route through the Strait of Hormuz, bypassing Iranian authorities, a move it says violates the two countries’ interim peace deal and caused tensions there to spike

“As of now, despite their direct outreaches – and Iran has been reaching out to the United States, both directly and indirectly, to engage in talks about settling the differences – with regards to what’s happening in that part of the world, unfortunately, so far, even though we have reached agreements, they have not kept…

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday accused Iran of not honoring the Strait of Hormuz deal, while reiterating that Washington was “committed to diplomacy” in the Middle East