The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the fate of nearly 900 pounds (408 kg) of highly enriched uranium and Iran’s request to release approximately $27 billion in assets frozen abroad were the critical points that derailed the Iran-US deal. The New York Times writes this, citing two Iranian officials familiar with the talks.
US President Donald Trump reposted an article on his social network Truth that suggests how the US could implement a “naval blockade” in the Persian Gulf to damage Iran’s economic interests, in the event of a failure between Washington and Tehran. The post, published by the online media Just the News, is titled: ‘The trump card the president has if Iran does not give in: a naval blockade.’
Trump reposted it on his Truth account at 6:16 this morning, practically coinciding with the news arriving from Islamabad, announced directly by his deputy JD Vance, according to which the ongoing negotiations with Iran had failed. The article suggests that the naval blockade strategy, already adopted in the case of Venezuela, could “stifle an already unstable Iranian economy and increase diplomatic pressure on China and India, cutting them off from one of their main sources of oil.”
The piece cites “some experts who say that “Trump may simply ‘overcome’ Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz with an even more effective blockade.
New Israeli raids in southern Lebanon, at least 11 dead
At least 11 people were killed in new Israeli raids in southern Lebanon, five of them in the town of Qana and another six in Maaroub, where an entire family was targeted: the Lebanese agency Nna reports. The same source adds that there were also attacks in other locations in southern Lebanon and that, in addition to the dead, there were also several wounded.
Two oil tankers that arrived in Hormuz turned back
Two empty “supertankers” headed towards the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz “backtracked at the last minute” once they approached the Iranian island of Larak, just as the talks between Washington and Tehran underway in Islamabad were given up for failure: Bloomberg reports this on its website. The two vessels in question, one Maltese-flagged and one Pakistani-flagged, reversed their rock once they approached a “checkpoint” controlled by Tehran, according to tracking data cited by Bloomberg. A third tanker, flying the Liberian flag, continued on its way, but it is not clear where exactly it is heading.