Hossein Mohebi

Diplomatic efforts gaining traction as mediators try to avoid wider instability

Oil prices are climbing on Thursday over reports that Chinese refiners banned fuel exports in October

Qatar's mediation continues as oil rises and UAE travellers face flight disruption

Qatar's mediation continues as oil rises and UAE travellers face flight disruption

As Iran and the United States work with mediators to end seven months of hostilities, the reality in the Strait of Hormuz is shifting in ways that could prove to be a game-changer in ongoing negotiations

Iran's Revolutionary Guards urge American voters to punish Trump at the ballot box in November midterms

US president calls report a 'hoax' as Iranian FM meets with Guterres

His warning comes as Iran faces severe restrictions on its oil exports amid the ongoing conflict with Washington and US sanctions

His warning comes as Iran faces severe restrictions on its oil exports amid the ongoing conflict with Washington and US sanctions

The supercut, produced by the conservative-led nonprofit Home of the Brave in partnership with progressive veterans group VoteVets, highlights just some of the many times Trump has suggested the conflict he controversially launched in February will soon be over

Donald Trump has publicly rejected the seven-day plan and reportedly told staff he expects to resume hostilities after the November midterms

Iran's foreign minister offered a proposal this week to reopen the strait after seven days and restart talks with the U.S. as an initial step toward a final nuclear deal

Trump has often taken pride in having allegedly mediated several wars

Iran offers Strait of Hormuz deal as Trump calls off Houthi strikes at last minute

Tehran’s decision-making structures appear gripped by a war of words as conflicting reports emerge on Tuesday about an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the US eases its military pressure

Trump to cast himself as peacemaker while defending Iran war at tense UN summit

After nearly six months of war, Washington seems ready to move its fight with Iran into a new arena that could hurt more than bombs

Trump to cast himself as peacemaker while defending Iran war at tense UN summit

The encounter would come at a striking moment as Iran military warns US against new attack

He gave no details on casualties or damage

In response, gov’t forces have launched strikes on Houthi positions as fighting escalates

Trump blitzes Iranian oil tankers after Tehran targets warships

The strikes came after US forces allegedly detected members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps preparing the launchers to fire rockets carrying sea mines into the strategically important waterway

Brent crude traded near $87 a barrel and was down more than 7 percent for the week

The top diplomats of the two countries met to discuss managing commercial shipping traffic in the vital waterway, which remains largely shut down nearly six months after the Iran war began

The Houthis have carried out attacks on Saudi oil facilities and shipping in the Red Sea in recent weeks

Those elevated are not a postwar generation seeking accommodation with Iran’s adversaries, but veterans of the revolutionary-security establishment, formed through war, intelligence operations, ideological conflict, asymmetric warfare and domestic coercion

Repeated warnings without action raise questions over US leverage amid Hormuz standoff

Iran's $300B Hormuz demand raises stakes: Mediators see glimmers of progress

Washington bets Iran will crack first; Tehran believes Trump is running out of time

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected a US-led Gaza plan endorsed by Hamas, putting distance between himself and US President Donald Trump as he tries to shore up his base ahead of close elections

The Strait of Hormuz is, by some accounts, named for a Zoroastrian deity destined to emerge victorious after a 9,000-year standoff with an adversary

Iran seeks trust in talks

The incident comes just hours after U.S. and Iranian forces exchanged fire in what many saw as a key test of their ceasefire and ongoing peace talks

Israel has threatened to launch a fresh bombing campaign in Lebanon despite US President Donald Trump's fury over attacks on the country this week

Kuwaiti aviation officials released new security video showing the moment an Iranian drone hit into its passenger terminal at the country's main airport

US seeks to decouple Iran negotiations from Israel–Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon