Iran's state-run news agency, cited for the late-June partial resumption of maritime trade.
Iran's Supreme National Security Council secretary called Washington's reply to its seven Hormuz conditions "insufficient" on Sunday. A tanker was struck in the strait the same day, two days after Trump said energy prices "will come tumbling."
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Iran's security council head Mohsen Rezaei threatened regional cables, data centers and AI facilities if intense fighting resumes, according to IRNA. The threat is conditional and unspecific, while the Hormuz disruption beside it is already running.
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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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A monthlong lull had let planners treat the six-month war as a decaying risk. Then Brent went from about $80 to about $95 in the days after American forces hit rocket launchers on a Hormuz island.
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Tehran's new security chief says any country backing Washington's Monday package is committing an act of war. The strait authority now naming ships for fines is itself under U.S. sanctions.
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Abu Dhabi suspended trade and financial transactions with Tehran until further notice. That shuts a channel supplying more than 30% of Iranian imports, most of it third countries' goods.
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