Ship is attacked near Strait of Hormuz as Iran reviews US response to latest proposal

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A cargo vessel adjacent the Strait of Hormuz said it was attacked by aggregate tiny craft, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations halfway reported connected Sunday, the latest successful astatine slightest 2 twelve attacks successful and astir the strait since the Iran warfare began.

Meanwhile, Tehran said it was reviewing the U.S. effect to its latest connection connected ending the warfare but made wide these were not atomic negotiations.

All unit connected the unidentified northbound cargo vessel were harmless aft the onslaught disconnected Sirik, Iran, eastbound of the strait, the British show said. Iranian officials person asserted that they power the strait and that ships not affiliated with the United States oregon Israel tin walk if they wage a toll, challenging the state of navigation guaranteed by planetary law.

Iran denied an attack, the semiofficial Iranian outlets Fars and Tabnak reported, and said a passing vessel had been stopped for a documents cheque arsenic portion of monitoring.

The show said it was the archetypal reported onslaught successful the country since April 22. Tehran has efficaciously closed the strait by attacking and threatening ships, and the menace level successful the country remains critical.

Iranian patrol boats, immoderate powered lone by duplicate outboard motors, are small, nimble and hard to detect. U.S. President Donald Trump past period ordered the U.S. subject to “shoot and kill” tiny Iranian boats that deploy mines successful the strait.

The fragile three-week ceasefire appears to beryllium holding, though Trump connected Saturday told journalists that further strikes remained a possibility.

Iran reviews US effect to its latest proposal

Tehran is reviewing the U.S. effect to its latest proposal, Iran’s judiciary Mizan quality bureau cited Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei arsenic saying.

But “at this stage, we person nary atomic negotiations,” Baghaei said. Iran’s atomic programme and enriched uranium person agelong been the cardinal contented successful tensions with the U.S., but Tehran would alternatively code it later.

Iran’s connection wants different issues resolved wrong 30 days and aims to extremity the warfare alternatively than widen the ceasefire, according to Iran’s state-linked media.

Trump connected Saturday said helium was reviewing the connection but expressed uncertainty it would pb to a deal, adding connected societal media that “they person not yet paid a large capable terms for what they person done" successful the astir 50 years since the Islamic Revolution there.

Iran’s 14-point connection calls for the U.S. lifting sanctions connected Iran, ending the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports, withdrawing forces from the portion and ceasing each hostilities, including Israel’s operations successful Lebanon, according to the semiofficial Nour News and Tasnim agencies, which person adjacent ties to Iran's information organizations.

Iran sent its connection via Pakistan, which hosted face-to-face talks past period betwixt Iran and the United States.

Pakistan's premier minister, overseas curate and service main proceed to promote the U.S. and Iran to talk directly, according to 2 officials successful Pakistan who spoke connected information of anonymity due to the fact that they were not authorized to talk to the media.

Also connected Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi spoke with his counterpart successful Oman, which oversaw erstwhile rounds of talks earlier the war, and successful Brazil and Spain.

Iran stands steadfast connected Strait of Hormuz

Trump has offered a program to reopen the Strait of Hormuz astatine the rima of the Persian Gulf, wherever astir a 5th of the world’s commercialized successful lipid and earthy state typically passes, on with fertilizer severely needed by farmers astir the world.

Iran's grip connected the strait, imposed aft the U.S. and Israel launched the warfare connected Feb. 28, has shaken planetary markets.

The British subject show connected Sunday said it had received reports that ships adjacent Ras al-Khaimah, the northernmost emirate successful the United Arab Emirates and adjacent to the strait, person received vigor warnings to determination from anchorages. It was not wide who sent the VHF messages.

Tehran “will not backmost down from our presumption connected the Strait of Hormuz, and it volition not instrumentality to its prewar conditions,” Iran’s lawman parliament speaker, Ali Nikzad, said Sunday portion visiting larboard facilities connected strategical Larak Island.

The U.S. has warned shipping companies they could look sanctions for paying Iran successful immoderate form, including integer assets, to transit the strait safely.

Meanwhile, the U.S. naval blockade since April 13 is depriving Tehran of lipid gross it needs to enactment up its ailing economy. The U.S. Central Command connected Sunday said 49 commercialized ships person been told to crook back.

“We deliberation that they’ve gotten little than $1.3 cardinal successful tolls, which is simply a pittance connected their erstwhile regular lipid revenues,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News connected Sunday. He said Iran's lipid retention is rapidly filling up and "they’re going to person to commencement shutting successful wells, which we deliberation could beryllium successful the adjacent week.”

Iran's currency continues to tumble

On Sunday, the 2nd time of Iran's moving week, the rial weakened further against the U.S. dollar. In Tehran’s Ferdowsi Street, the capital’s main currency speech hub, the dollar was trading astatine 1,840,000 rials.

Analysts accidental determination is simply a beardown anticipation the currency volition gaffe further.

The rial was trading astatine 1.3 cardinal to the dollar successful December, a grounds debased astatine the time, and triggered wide protests implicit the worsening economy. Markets successful Tehran stay unstable, with prices of immoderate goods rising daily.

According to reports successful Iranian media, respective factories person not renewed contracts for workers aft the Iranian caller twelvemonth successful March, and important numbers person mislaid their jobs.

Yousef Pezeshkian, the lad and advisor of President Masoud Pezeshkian, wrote connected Telegram that some the United States and Iran spot themselves arsenic the victor of the warfare and are unwilling to backmost down.

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Lidman reported from Tel Aviv, Israel, and Anna from Lowville, New York. Associated Press writers Amir Vahdat successful Tehran, Iran, and Munir Ahmed successful Islamabad contributed to this report.

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