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Talks with US won't happen while interim deal is breached, Iranian minister says
Iran's foreign minister said talks won't happen as long as the U.S. breaches an interim deal.
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Iran says deal on Strait of Hormuz is close but is not enough to open the waterway
Agreement between Iran and Oman over control of the strategic waterway is seen as crucial to a wider agreement to end the U.S. conflict.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard says re-opening Strait of Hormuz does not depend on talks with Oman
Iran's Revolutionary Guard said on Saturday that re-opening the Strait of Hormuz is not related to Iran-Oman negotiations but conditional on the U.S. accepting Iran's condition...
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US expects deal soon on Strait of Hormuz; Sunni powers unite in defense pact
A U.S. official on Friday reported progress between Iran and Oman that could soon reopen the Strait of Hormuz, potentially restoring oil exports that have been disrupted by the fi...
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Houthis strike Marib again as UN warns Yemen nearing wider conflict
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis launched ballistic missiles and drones at displacement camps and residential neighbourhoods in the city of Marib on Friday, killing two people and wo...
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Iraqi PM, Saudi intelligence chief discuss regional security as militias delay response
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi met Saudi general intelligence chief Khalid al-Humaidan on Friday to discuss coordination over regional security developments, the prime ministe...
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US official: We expect a deal soon between Iran and Oman on Strait of Hormuz
Progress is being made between Iran and Oman on the Strait of Hormuz and "we expect a deal soon," a U.S. official told Reuters on Friday.
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US sanctions Dubai crypto exchange for aiding Iran's IRGC, following a Reuters report
The United States on Friday sanctioned an unlicensed multi-state cryptocurrency exchange, alleging it processed millions of dollars of crypto for Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary...
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Lebanon, Israel agree shortlist of countries that could send troops to verify Hezbollah disarmament
Lebanon and Israel have agreed a shortlist of countries that could send troops to verify the disarmament of Hezbollah under a U.S.-brokered agreement, a Lebanese official said on ...
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Political struggle of far-right ally Smotrich shows faultline in Netanyahu coalition
Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich faces a fight for political survival in elections in October after angering his fellow West Bank settlers by voting not to pun...
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Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan to sign joint defence agreement in Saudi Arabia on Friday, sources say
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan will sign a joint defence agreement in Saudi Arabia on Friday, two regional sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reute...
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Saudi Arabia expects imminent attacks from north and south, senior official says
Saudi Arabia expects imminent coordinated attacks from the north and south by Iraqi militias and Yemen's Houthis under the supervision of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,...
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Trump says he thinks war with Iran will end 'pretty soon'
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday told reporters that he believed the war with Iran would be over soon and said the armed forces were experiencing issues with supplies of ...
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Several killed in explosion in city outside Syria's Damascus, state-run Ekhbariya TV reports
Several people were killed or wounded in an explosion in a city on the outskirts of Syria's capital Damascus, the state-run Ekhbariya TV reported on Thursday.
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Iranian parliamentary committee reviews draft bill to bar US, Israeli ships from Hormuz, Fars says
An Iranian parliamentary committee is reviewing a preliminary bill that would bar U.S., Israeli and other "hostile" vessels from transiting the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's semi-o...
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Trump's Iran dilemma: He's stuck in war with no exit in sight
With President Donald Trump’s war against Iran now in its sixth month, this week's flurry of threats and diplomacy has underscored the ever-tighter bind he finds himself in as he t...
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Proposed Hormuz passage deal not feasible for shipping industry, sources say
A proposed deal between Iran and Oman that would give Tehran control over ships entering the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz is not easily workable due to U.S. sanctions and res...
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Israel charges settler in Palestinian activist's killing, in rare indictment
Israeli prosecutors on Thursday charged a Jewish settler over the killing of a Palestinian community leader last year in the West Bank, the first such indictment in more than seve...
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