Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said a delegation of the country\u2019s own experts would travel to Doha this week but staunchly denied any sit-down with the US side.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWe have not yet entered the stage of negotiating a final agreement … over the coming days, we will not have any negotiation meetings with the US side at any level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s exercise of control over the highly strategic strait has sparked repeated flare-ups, the latest of which came early on Sunday when US Central Command said it had attacked 10 Iranian military targets over \u201ccontinued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping\u201d.<\/p>\n
Iran said it retaliated with strikes against US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain.<\/p>\n
The blockade remains a key sticking point in the negotiations.<\/p>\n
Iran and Oman border the strait, through which a fifth of the world\u2019s oil and liquefied natural gas pass, and Iran said on Monday they held their first talks since the deal was struck.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, said on X: \u201cDuring a trip to Muscat, the first meeting of the Joint Hormuz Committee was held.\u201d<\/p>\n
The strait comprises Omani and Iranian territorial waters, but under international law the two cannot generally block passage or charge tolls.<\/p>\n
Iran warned on Sunday that any attempt by ships to bypass its preferred route through Hormuz would \u201cincrease tensions\u201d in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
Iran insists ships transiting the strait pass through a corridor near its own shores.<\/p>\n
Traffic slowed over the weekend after a vessel was struck while transiting the waterway on Saturday, with 29 commodity vessels crossing on Saturday and 12 transiting on Sunday, according to data from the maritime tracking firm Kpler.<\/p>\n
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