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\n This aerial photograph shows boats anchored off Oman\u2019s northern Musandam Peninsula near the Strait of Hormuz on June 27, 2026. | AFP photo <\/p>\n
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\n This aerial photograph shows boats anchored off Oman\u2019s northern Musandam Peninsula near the Strait of Hormuz on June 27, 2026. | AFP photo
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Iran\u2019s top diplomat warned Sunday that any attempt by shipping to bypass its preferred route through the Strait of Hormuz would \u2018increase tensions\u2019 in the Middle East, as US and Iranian forces again traded attacks across the vital seaway.<\/p>\n
The exchanges underscored the fragility of a Pakistan-brokered agreement aimed at ending the war launched by the United States and Israel in February, which disrupted shipping through the strait and rattled global energy markets.<\/p>\n
Although a ceasefire took effect in April, sporadic violence has continued in the Gulf region, with ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz often the spark.<\/p>\n
Early on Sunday, US Central Command said it had attacked 10 Iranian military targets over \u2018continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping\u2019.<\/p>\n
Iran then said it had carried out retaliatory strikes against US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in response. Both Kuwait and Bahrain denounced the attacks.<\/p>\n
Tehran has continued to insist on controlling passage through the vital strait, through which a fifth of the world\u2019s oil and liquefied natural gas travel in normal times, something it did not have before the war.<\/p>\n
At the moment, Iran insists ships transiting the strait pass through a corridor close to its own shores, though this week dozens of vessels have travelled along the opposite side of the waterway, hugging the Omani coast.<\/p>\n
\u2018Any attempt to adopt new or separate arrangements compared to what is underway by the Islamic Republic of Iran, will only lead to more complicated situations and delays in the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and will increase the tensions,\u2019 Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said.<\/p>\n
\u2018I urge all parties… to adhere to the memorandum of understanding and not to allow this MoU to deviate from its course.\u2019<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards said Sunday they were taking measures to control traffic in the strait and that vessels in violation of those measures would be dealt with more firmly than before.<\/p>\n
Mohammad Mokhber, adviser to Iran\u2019s supreme leader, wrote on X that as long as Iran managed the strait, Washington\u2019s \u2018hegemonic dreams in the region will not be realised\u2019.<\/p>\n
In the memorandum of understanding reached this month \u2014 aimed at putting a lasting end to the war \u2014 Iran had agreed \u2018safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge, for 60 days only, from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman, and vice versa\u2019 in the strait.<\/p>\n
Experts said there would likely be more Hormuz incidents.<\/p>\n
For Iran, \u2018a drawn-out negotiation accompanied by controlled pressure in the strait can work to its advantage\u2019, said HA Hellyer, of London think tank the Royal United Services Institute.<\/p>\n
The agreement signed by the US and Iran said both countries, and their respective allies, were \u2018not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other and to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other\u2019.<\/p>\n
But both countries have since traded accusations of violating their fragile ceasefire.<\/p>\n
US president Donald Trump said on Saturday that Iran would \u2018no longer exist\u2019 if the US were \u2018forced\u2019 to resume the war.<\/p>\n
\u2018United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN!\u2019 Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n
CENTCOM said the strikes were in response to an Iranian drone attack on the Panama-flagged oil tanker \u2018Kiku\u2019.<\/p>\n
Washington had carried out similar strikes on Friday.<\/p>\n
Israel, meanwhile, launched strikes in Lebanon as Hezbollah\u2019s leader Naim Qassem rejected a deal to end that conflict, which has also threatened to derail the wider US-Iran peace effort.<\/p>\n
Iran called them \u2018a blatant violation\u2019 of the truce deal.<\/p>\n
Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah warned on Sunday of \u2018internal conflict\u2019 in Lebanon over the country\u2019s agreement with Israel, signed this week, predicting the deal would not be implemented.<\/p>\n
The agreement, which aims to pave the way to peace between the neighbours, includes plans to disarm Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, meanwhile, said Iran was \u2018seriously pursuing this issue\u2019 of ending the Israeli occupation in Lebanon in a call with Lebanese speaker of parliament Nabih Berri.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Lebanese state media reported a new Israeli strike on the country\u2019s south, while the Israeli military said a soldier was killed in fighting in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n
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