DOHA: Maritime trade between Iran and Qatar resumed after a roughly five-month suspension, Iran’s commercial attaché in Doha told state media on Sunday (July 5).An interim deal between Tehran and Washington signed last month announced the end of hostilities after a four-month conflict and mandated a return to pre-war maritime traffic in the Gulf. However, transit in and out of the Gulf remains contested.Abbas Abdolkhani said shipping between Iran’s Dayyer port and Qatar’s Al Ruwais port had resumed following coordination between the Iranian embassy in Doha and Qatari authorities.The two geographically opposite ports mainly cater to regional trade. Dayyer port was hit several times during the war.In late June, an official from the Trade Promotion Organisation of Iran told state media that I