“The body set up by Iran to manage the strait said vessels passing outside designated routes would not be guaranteed safe passage” and the UN evacuation effort has been suspended, although the the attacked vessel “did not transit under IMO’s evacuation framework” …<\/p>\n
… yet traffic continues to flow …<\/p>\n
… “Whether the parties can bridge these differences during the 60-day implementation period will be a key indicator of whether the memorandum can evolve from a ceasefire into a durable regional agreement”:<\/p>\n
“Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Naim Kassem, said in a speech Friday that Ashoura is being repeated again by the U.S. and Israel, adding that his group and its supporters were subjected to a ‘war of elimination'”:<\/p>\n
“The regime is examining international models, including Turkey’s Dardanelles arrangement and the Malacca Straits Patrol, to justify the arrangement”:<\/p>\n
Israeli ware crimes continue:<\/p>\n
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Arab Gulf leaders to reassure them that U.S. isn\u2019t cutting them out of negotiations with Tehran” …<\/p>\n
… and Iran condemned their “joint statement … describing it as “interventionist, irresponsible and provocative”:<\/p>\n
“WSJ says Iran\u2019s retaliatory strikes did greater damage to the Middle East\u2019s only US Navy base, in Bahrain, than the Pentagon has acknowledged”:<\/p>\n
“Iran coach says he and his team are focused on football”:<\/p>\n