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Iran will close the strategic Strait of Hormuz again if the United States continues its blockade of Iranian ports, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Saturday.
Iran War: President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States and Iran would jointly remove uranium from Tehran's nuclear sites with excavators under any peace deal, before the material is transferred to US territory.
A fresh round of talks between Iranian and American negotiators is expected to take place in Islamabad on Monday, Iranian officials familiar with the discussions said, CNN reported.
Donald Trump told AFP Friday that a peace deal was "very close" after Iran moved to reopen the Strait of Hormuz -- but Tehran rejected the US president's claim that it was ready to surrender nuclear materials.
Iran's foreign ministry on Friday said the country's stockpile of enriched uranium would not be transferred "anywhere", denying an earlier claim by US President Donald Trump that the Islamic republic had agreed to hand it over.
Bangladesh has begun receiving an additional 5,000 tonnes of diesel from India through a cross-border pipeline, officials familiar with the development said on Friday, Dhaka Tribune reported.
The statement mentions details that Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi did not clarify when he announced that the passage during the ceasefire was "completely open" for all commercial vessels.
The TSS refers to the so-called Traffic Separation Scheme, which was adopted by the UN's shipping agency in 1968 with agreement of countries in the region.
Trump's comments came after a series of social media posts in which he touted progress on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and ending Iran's nuclear program.
Last week, the New York Times reported that Iran was unable to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz because it could not locate all the mines it laid in the waterway to block the passage amid war.