IRGC spokesman says the Strait "belongs to Iran and the country of Oman...have reached results that are acceptable to both sides," while another senior official says negotiations are still ongoing.
The Treasury Department redesignated the group "for service to the Iranian regime under the command of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force," according to a statement.
The two Afghan staff members of the UN's Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) were detained in the western city of Herat on August 9, following a string of detentions by Taliban authorities.
Talk of Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords appears to underestimate how much Riyadh and other countries have become concerned about Israeli strikes in places like Syria.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf visited Iraq as Tehran sought to protect its allied militias and signal it would not budge on the Strait of Hormuz.
Upon Ghalibaf’s arrival, he insisted that the two countries needed to strengthen a “new regional order” and denounced “foreign interference.”
Turkey, Egypt, and Qatar condemned recent Israeli strikes in Gaza, saying they undermined regional and international efforts to implement a peace plan.
