{"id":255472,"date":"2026-08-19T03:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/255472\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:11:11","slug":"trump-says-us-has-no-talks-planned-with-iran-and-other-news-from-the-middle-east-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/255472\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US has no talks planned with Iran and other news from the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> said Tuesday the U.S. has no talks planned with Iran but insisted the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> remains \u201copen and operating,\u201d despite limited traffic and a reported strike on a ship exiting the waterway.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Trump also threatened to bomb Oman as the country sought a deal with Iran<\/a> to manage shipping traffic through the strait, two regional officials said Tuesday, a day after Trump reportedly leveled the threat if Oman “gets in the way.\u201d Iran says the waterway will not be reopened until the U.S. meets its conditions.<\/p>\n

As talks between Iran and Oman continue, a projectile hit a ship in the strait and Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed they fired drones at an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look at the latest developments Tuesday in the Iran war<\/a> and the wider Middle East. Full coverage can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Oman and Iran say they are nearing a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Trump said on social media Tuesday that the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remains \u201cin full force and effect,\u201d but asserted that all water mines have been removed and that other marine traffic was free to pass. <\/p>\n

Trump posted a map depicting the strait as U.S. territory.<\/p>\n

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi appeared to respond to Trump\u2019s post.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust as Trump correctly wrote the name of the eternal Persian Gulf, soon his delusion regarding the Strait of Hormuz will either be corrected or we will correct the delusions of this deluded man,” he wrote on X.<\/p>\n

The Trump<\/a> administration has told Oman it opposes parts of the yet-to-be-announced deal<\/a>, according to officials briefed on the U.S. position. Those include joint Iranian and Omani management of the passage’s exit route and the collection of voluntary fees from vessels, even if the money is used for security and maritime environmental protection.<\/p>\n

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to journalists.<\/p>\n

The White House on Tuesday referred to Trump\u2019s remarks in the Oval Office and declined to comment further about Oman.<\/p>\n

\u2014 By Samy Magdy in Cairo<\/p>\n

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that the Iranian-Omani deal could pave the way for Washington and Tehran to return to negotiations<\/a> for a \u201ccomprehensive and permanent deal that addresses all concerns and enhances regional security and stability.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement came after a meeting between Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and Omani counterpart Badr al-Busaidi. But it did not address Trump\u2019s latest threat against Oman.<\/p>\n

The 60-day negotiating period ended this week between the U.S. and Iran with no clear end to the war in sight.<\/p>\n

Ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz dropped significantly last week, with confirmed crossings falling 19.5% to 95 transits. Only three vessels made it through the waterway on Sunday, according to shipping data platform Kpler.<\/p>\n

The ships used the Iranian-designated route through the strait, with no crossings recorded through the Omani routes.<\/p>\n

Crossings through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait increased 6.7% to 254 transits, while so-called dark transits, in which ships turn off the transponders that broadcast their location, fell from 40 to 16, Kpler said.<\/p>\n

An unidentified projectile damaged the engine room of a ship in the Strait of Hormuz near Oman and \u201cresulted in a crew casualty,” according to the British military\u2019s UK Maritime Trade Operations center.<\/p>\n

The maritime monitoring agency did not release any details about the ship or its cargo, and it was not clear whether the crew member was killed or wounded.<\/p>\n

No environmental damage has been reported and the agency said the Omani Coast Guard was assisting other crew members and authorities were investigating.<\/p>\n

Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed they fired drones at an oil refinery in neighboring Saudi Arabia, the latest attack threatening to reignite Yemen\u2019s civil war and open another front in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The attack targeted a facility run by Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia\u2019s state-owned oil company, according to a report by the Houthi-run SABA news agency. There were no immediate reports of damage or comment from Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

The Houthis have escalated attacks against government forces in Yemen and oil facilities in Saudi Arabia<\/a>, which supports the Yemeni government, and the kingdom\u2019s shipping in the Red Sea, an important alternative to the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

An Israeli strike hit Gaza City on Tuesday, killing six people, including a child, and wounding 14 others, according to Shifa Hospital, where the casualties were taken.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military said it struck Hamas commanders in the Shati area who it said were planning to carry out attacks against Israeli forces.<\/p>\n

The heaviest fighting has subsided since a ceasefire in the more than two-year war<\/a> took hold in October. Israeli forces have carried out repeated airstrikes since then, killing at least 1,266 Palestinians, according to health officials in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The Gaza Health Ministry, which is part of the Hamas-led government, maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. But it does not give a breakdown of civilians and militants.<\/p>\n

The defense ministry of the United Arab Emirates said two ballistic missiles were launched from Iran toward the UAE on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

One landed outside of the country\u2019s waters, and the other landed within them, the Emirati Defense Ministry said. It was unclear whether the missiles were shot down by air defenses or fell. No damage or injuries were reported. <\/p>\n

Iran early Wednesday rejected the UAE\u2019s claims that it launched missiles toward the country.<\/p>\n

In a post on social media, the spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmail Baghaei, said Dubai\u2019s accusations were \u201cdetrimental to ongoing efforts to strengthen trust among the countries of the region and prevent a further deterioration of security.\u201d He called on the nations in the region to not make \u201cbaseless accusations\u201d against Iran.<\/p>\n

In the weeks after the U.S. and Israel launched a war against Iran on Feb. 28, the UAE was frequently targeted by Iranian missiles and drones, but Tuesday\u2019s reported attack was the first in weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. has no talks planned with Iran but insisted the Strait…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[737,989,197,102,196,768,81,463,101,781,82],"class_list":["post-255472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-bombings","tag-diplomacy","tag-general-news","tag-hormuz","tag-iran-war","tag-military-and-defense","tag-politics","tag-religion","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-waterways","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117119987345507589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255472","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=255472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}