{"id":105229,"date":"2026-05-09T13:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/105229\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T13:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:17:11","slug":"us-iran-war-no-closer-to-ending-as-gulf-clashes-flare-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/105229\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran war no closer to ending as Gulf clashes flare"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2060The US and Iran appeared no closer on Saturday to finding an end to their war after the two sides traded fire in the Gulf amid a tenuous ceasefire, while a US intelligence analysis concluded Tehran could withstand a naval blockade for months.<\/p>\n

Recent days have seen the biggest flare-ups in fighting in and around the Strait of Hormuz since a ceasefire began a month ago, and the United Arab Emirates came under renewed \u200cattack on Friday.<\/p>\n

Washington has been awaiting Tehran\u2019s response to a US proposal that would formally end the war before talks on more contentious issues, including Iran\u2019s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Rome on Friday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US was expecting a response that day, although an Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said Tehran was still weighing its response.<\/p>\n

Sporadic clashes continued on Friday between Iranian forces and US vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran\u2019s semi-official Fars news agency reported.<\/p>\n

\"USUS President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the \u200cceasefire, announced on April 7, was still holding despite flare-ups. Iran accused the US of breaching it. File photo: Reuters<\/p>\n

The Tasnim news agency later cited an Iranian military source saying the situation had calmed but warning more clashes were possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2060The US and Iran appeared no closer on Saturday to finding an end to their war after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[10389,2268,38,2061,359,4331,102,34,361,384,210,22088,2348,101,16495,153],"class_list":{"0":"post-105229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-abbas-araqchi","9":"tag-cia","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-fars-news-agency","12":"tag-gulf","13":"tag-hong-kong","14":"tag-hormuz","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-iranian","17":"tag-italy","18":"tag-marco-rubio","19":"tag-rome","20":"tag-shahed-drones","21":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","22":"tag-tasnim-news-agency","23":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116544814624848390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}