Despite a flurry of news from Tehran and Washington Friday indicating movement toward a resolution of the war, the day ended with lingering questions about a path to peace. <\/p>\n
An initial announcement by Iran that the Strait of Hormuz was fully open<\/a>, coming a day after Israel agreed to stop bombing Lebanon, was subsequently qualified to exclude ships and cargoes linked to \u201chostile\u201d countries. Iran state media also reported the government would fully close the strait again if the US didn\u2019t end its blockade of Iranian shipping. In Washington, President Donald Trump said the blockade would continue. Later, he revealed plans for new peace talks and Iran\u2019s nuclear program, albeit without<\/a> confirmation from Iran. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite a flurry of news from Tehran and Washington Friday indicating movement toward a resolution of the war,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[3074,383,5865,328,949,262,54,34,39,69,1705],"class_list":{"0":"post-70898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-briefing","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-persian-gulf","17":"tag-tehran","18":"tag-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116422422610568147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70898","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=70898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}