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Abbas Araghchi is Iran's Foreign Minister, serving as Tehran's senior diplomat on nuclear negotiations, sanctions relief, and regional security disputes.
Tehran confirmed a route-management deal while saying reopening depends on alleged US violations. The prediction market cited by Cryptobriefing prices restored normal traffic by August 31 at 10.5%.
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US Air Force bombers have left RAF Fairford for their home bases after six arrests in a British terror inquiry, over a threat Trump says is linked to Iran. The move protects the aircraft, but Britain keeps the base and an Iran-linked proxy threat that its own officials say was already active.
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Trump is sending about 9,000 troops and a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East while calling more bombing of Iran after Nov. 3 "possible." For oil and rates, the case for a longer war rests on his refusal of an Iranian truce that offered to open the Strait of Hormuz.
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Foreign Affairs essay argues Iran's leaders, nervous in private despite claiming victory in the war begun February 28, will escalate against energy markets. Its view that no settlement would last makes the Hormuz energy shock a planning problem measured in years.
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Iran says it has an official US reply to its proposal to end the war, and the rial has passed 2.5 million to the dollar, a record low. Tehran's price for reopening the Strait of Hormuz is cash, and a currency falling this fast makes each week of talks more expensive for Tehran.
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UAE vice president Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed met Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on Tuesday, their first high-level meeting since January's split over Yemen. Whether the thaw outlasts a US-Iran deal on Hormuz will show which threat is holding it together.
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Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days only if oil sanctions and the US naval blockade end, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said. With Donald Trump rejecting the offer, budgets set this quarter are safer treating the disruption as the base case.
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Iran's rial fell past 2.5 million to the dollar on Tuesday, 27 days after a record 2.2 million, losing at least 12% of its dollar value. Each week the Hormuz talks stall now costs Tehran through its exchange rate and Washington through gasoline prices.
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Iran offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the US lifts its port blockade, frees frozen assets and waives oil sanctions. Tehran pitched the speed as help for Trump in November's midterms, and his own reply so far is a map calling the waterway the 'Trump Strait'.
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Crude opened Monday higher after President Trump rejected Iran's Hormuz proposal, with December Brent at $98.69 and November WTI at $93.78. Brent has won back 87% of last week's drop and WTI only 44%, held back by talk of a U.S. diesel export ban.
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US crude fell 7.9% this week to $92.41 amid US-Iran talks on Hormuz while Brent ended roughly flat at $104.32. Tehran's reopening offer rests on a June deal that already collapsed over transit rights, and Brent has fallen on it for just one session.
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The Qatar Investment Authority's new partnership with JPMorgan's asset management arm begins with a $15 billion public equities mandate, announced in the same week Qatar's Emir told the UN that the Gulf is in one of its most dangerous phases.
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Adm. Brad Cooper says the US military supported the transit of a billion barrels of oil in two months, about 16 million a day, and that Iran exported none, while monitors put Hormuz traffic well below prewar.
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Abbas Araghchi's condition for reopening the strait points at a document each side accuses the other of breaking. Traders give a US-Iran agreement by September 15 a 2.9 percent chance, about 33 to 1 against.
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A sectoral determination under Executive Order 13902 exposes any foreign firm Treasury says operates in Iran's digital asset sector. Two of roughly 60 names in Monday's action were crypto-linked.
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Pezeshkian and Ghalibaf say the war must end. The IRGC says fight to the end, and it used the 60-day talks lull to prepare for more combat.
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