The U.S. and many Gulf Arab states<\/a>\u00a0say they won\u2019t agree to the charges. An effort by Oman and a U.N. agency to launch a new route near Oman\u2019s shore sparked attacks across the Mideast last weekend, highlighting the tensions.<\/p>\nIranian state TV on Wednesday said the ship \u201cran aground with its cargo because of shallow waters along the route it had chosen and was unable to continue sailing.\u201d It said shippers needed to follow the instructions of Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in the strait.<\/p>\n
The Guard\u2019s navy has repeatedly warned that \u201cany entry or exit through routes other than the \u2018Route of Authority\u2019 in the Persian Gulf could lead to irreparable incidents.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report did not mention the two ships Iran attacked in recent days for daring to head out through the strait without Tehran\u2019s permission, including one carrying crude oil from Qatar.<\/p>\n
Qatar meets with both sides<\/p>\n
Witkoff and Kushner met Wednesday with Qatar\u2019s ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and its foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, according to a statement by the Qatari government.<\/p>\n
Discussions included details related to traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Vice President JD Vance told reporters in the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, we\u2019re worried about the nuclear issue,\u201d Vance said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to start talking about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sheikh Mohammed also met with Gharibabadi and other Iranian officials, with Pakistani mediators also on hand. Gharibabadi said the Iranian delegation had no direct talks with the American side, and its talks with mediators dealt with Lebanon and plans to return some of Iran\u2019s frozen assets, Iranian state media reported.<\/p>\n
Lebanon remains a thorny issue in the negotiations. Iran has insisted that all fighting end between the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah and Israeli military forces there.<\/p>\n
Iran also has called for Israel to give up the land it now occupies in southern Lebanon. Israel insists it must hold the territory and have a free hand to attack Hezbollah, which has been launching attacks into northern Israel.<\/p>\n
More ships get out of Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n
While ship traffic in the strait dropped after the weekend attacks, more countries say their vessels have gotten out.<\/p>\n
The Thai Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that 10 out of 11 Thai-flagged vessels or vessels chartered by Thai operators have departed the strait safely. South Korean officials say all but two of the country\u2019s 26 vessels that were stranded have left safely.<\/p>\n
US Navy searches for helicopter crew member in the Arabian Sea<\/p>\n
In other developments Wednesday, a U.S. Navy helicopter made an emergency water landing into the Arabian Sea, leaving one crew member missing, the Navy\u2019s 5th fleet said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The Navy said there was \u201cno indication the emergency was caused by hostile action.\u201d It said the MH-60S Sea Hawk went into the water at 3:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
Three of the helicopter\u2019s four crew members were rescued, the statement said. The Navy was searching for the missing crew member.<\/p>\n
The Navy statement did not say whether the aircraft sank or was recovered. The helicopter was assigned to the USS George H.W. Bush, one of two aircraft carriers deployed in the waters off Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. and Iranian negotiators met separately on Wednesday with Qatari and Pakistani mediators, with \u201cpositive progress made,\u201d and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[23631,41,1804,1809,1366,38,1367,12221,1368,34,196,37,5650,1369,6280,3542,4038,23632,1096,23633,35,210,1370,49,187,876,23634,1807,1577,1371,1403,772,1372,1679,271,10203,101,1585,392,309,23635,11492,391,683,2174,1373,51,1374,1257,23379,1537],"class_list":["post-186738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-amor","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-cody-khork","tag-declan-coady","tag-defense-secretary","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-administration","tag-gabbard","tag-hegseth","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-israel","tag-israel-lebanon-war","tag-israel-war","tag-israel-lebanon","tag-israel-lebanon-ceasefire","tag-israeli-prime-minister","tag-jd","tag-jd-vance","tag-khork","tag-kuwait","tag-marco-rubio","tag-medal-of-honor","tag-middle-east","tag-middle-east-war","tag-netanyahu","tag-news-alexander-lamorie","tag-nicole-amor","tag-noah-tietjens","tag-norwegian-cruise-line-holdings","tag-pentagon","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-president","tag-prime-minister","tag-qatar","tag-rubio","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tietjens","tag-trump","tag-trump-administration","tag-tulsi","tag-tulsi-gabbard","tag-u-s-president","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-central-command","tag-u-s-oil-prices","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-president","tag-vance","tag-vice-president","tag-white-house"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186738","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=186738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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