Trump demands Iran pay compensation following new conditions for reopening strait

President Trump signaled he would be piling economic pressure on Iran as the stalemate continued and Tehran laid out new conditions to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran will not engage in talks with U.S. as long as Washington breaches an interim deal signed in June, says Iran’s foreign minister

There are no ongoing negotiations between Tehran and Washington, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday, after Tehran set out a steep series of demands for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

Continued attacks in the strait, which was free to transit before the war, led to the collapse of an April ceasefire.

Iran demands compensation and an end to aggression as preconditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a vital global shipping lane. Learn more about the

Continued attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz have led to greater and greater backlash from nearby nations.

Iran sets conditions for reopening Strait of Hormuz Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has outlined Tehran’s conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz. In a statement carried by Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB, Zolghadr said Washington must “correct its behaviour” b

Iran and Oman are "very close" to reaching an accord on a new shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's foreign minister says. This is your three-minute briefing on the key developments overnight in the Middle East.

The proposed legislation, dubbed the “Strategic Action for the Security and Sustainable Development of the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf,” is under review by parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Tasnim reported.

The US and Israel carried out joint strikes on several key Iranian sites on February 28 and Iran retaliated by striking sites across the Middle East and closing the strait