Online Reporter
The Strait of Hormuz remained shut on Friday as Israel traded fire with Hezbollah in Lebanon, which the US and Iran each described as violations of their ceasefire deal on the eve of their first peace talks of the war.
The two-day-old ceasefire has halted the campaign of US and Israeli air strikes on Iran.
But it has so far done nothing to end the blockade of the strait, which has caused the biggest-ever disruption to global energy supplies, or to calm a parallel war waged by Israel against Iran’s Hezbollah allies in Lebanon.
Iran was doing a “very poor job” of allowing oil to go through the strait, US President Donald Trump said in a recent social media post.
“That is not the agreement we have!”
In a separate post, he said oil would start flowing again, without saying how.
Iran, for its part, described the ongoing Israeli attacks on Lebanon as a violation of the truce.
Israeli forces launched the biggest attack of the war hours after the ceasefire was announced, killing more than 250 Lebanese in sudden surprise strikes on heavily populated areas. — Reuters
