{"id":109523,"date":"2026-05-12T04:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/109523\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:48:10","slug":"middle-east-live-us-iran-talks-deadlocked-strait-of-hormuz-still-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/109523\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East live: US-Iran talks deadlocked, Strait of Hormuz still closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:France 24;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"France 24\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Tue, 12 May 2026 at 4:18 am UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_france_24_en_articles_749\/371faf99d3e68749a96d9088ea1d15ea.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, May 8, 2026.<\/p>\n<p> (\u00a9 Stringer, Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>\u2060Iran&#8217;s proposal \u200bto end war with \u200bthe US and reopen the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Strait of Hormuz;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/strait-of-hormuz\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a> was \u200blegitimate \u200cand generous, Foreign \u2060Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei has said, adding that the US \u2060continues to uphold unreasonable and one-sided demands.<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-ylk=\"slk:UK;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/united-kingdom\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">UK<\/a> and <a data-ylk=\"slk:France;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/france\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a> will on Tuesday host a multinational meeting of defence ministers on military plans to restore trade flows through the Strait of Hormuz, the British government said.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Iran;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/iran\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a>&#8216;s stockpile of enriched uranium must be &#8220;taken out&#8221; before the US-Israeli war against Iran can be considered over, Israeli Prime Minister <a data-ylk=\"slk:Benjamin Netanyahu;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/benjamin-netanyahu\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> told an American broadcaster on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0\u2060United Arab \u200bEmirates has \u200bcarried\u00a0out military strikes on Iran, the \u200bWall \u200cStreet\u00a0\u2060Journal reported\u00a0on Monday, \u200cciting people familiar with\u00a0\u2060the matter. The strikes, which the \u200bUAE has \u200cnot publicly acknowledged,\u00a0included an attack \u200con a refinery \u200bon Iran&#8217;s Lavan Island in the\u00a0Persian Gulf, \u200bWSJ said, \u200badding that \u200bthe attack took place \u200bin\u00a0early April.<\/p>\n<p>(FRANCE 24 with Reuters, AP and AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tue, 12 May 2026 at 4:18 am UTC Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, May 8,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5782,34,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-109523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-esmaeil-baghaei","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-strait-of-hormuz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116559800173005207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109523","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=109523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}