While Beijing has lifted refined fuel export restrictions this month amid elevated global oil prices and ample national reserves, it has also introduced compliance requirements for refiners – a cautious pivot aimed at safeguarding domestic stockpiles, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter. “With the interim truce between Washington and Tehran having collapsed, Beijing has adopted a more cautious stance on easing curbs for fuel exports,” a person familiar with the matter said in...
30 days into the US-Iran MoU the worst fighting in months has erupted threatening to unravel the ceasefire.
Both sides face pressure points that could make a protracted war painful.
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that arch foe Iran has freed an American citizen detained since December 2024 and allowed her to leave the country. “She is now safely outside of Iran, and in good condition,” Trump posted on social media, adding: “The United States of America appreciates this gesture of Goodwill by Iran!” Trump – who in recent days has ordered a resumption of strikes against Iran and reimposed a naval blockade of its ports – did not name the woman or describe why she had...
Iran has installed a billboard in the capital Tehran showing US President Donald Trump lying in a coffin.
The IRGC has taken the lead in Iran, particularly over Hormuz - and the government says it's on the same page.
Less than a month after signing an MoU as a step towards peace, the US reinstates a naval blockade on Iranian ports.
The BBC's Barbara Plett Usher examines the latest tensions over the key international shipping channel.
Hardline MPs table plan that aims to formalise control over the strait and undermine any negotiations.
Asia’s economies are once again staring down the barrel of the Strait of Hormuz as the latest breakdown of the US-Iran ceasefire and Washington’s decision to impose a blockade-cum-toll threaten to keep energy costs elevated and shipping flows under strain. But economists and shipping analysts say the region is better placed to absorb the blow this time round. Oil prices jumped to a one-month high of US$84.78 a barrel on Tuesday morning as renewed fighting between Iran and the US over control of...
Islamabad is still urging dialogue, but analysts say it has few tools to halt the latest round of US-Iran escalation.
Brent crude nears $85 a barrel amid renewed hostiles between Washington and Tehran.
Retired US General Mark Kimmitt warns renewed attacks in the Strait of Hormuz could push the US and Iran
Regional mediators are stepping up efforts to prevent further escalation between Iran and the US.
Iranian leaders say they’ll never surrender and US President Donald Trump says the ceasefire is ‘over'.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday he had ordered the military to be prepared to launch strikes against Iran if the Iranian government carried out or attempted an assassination of the president. “1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the...
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Washington had agreed to resume discussions with Iran despite declaring an end to the fragile truce that had halted months of conflict between the two countries. “The Islamic Republic of Iran has asked us to continue ‘talks’. We have agreed to do so, but the United States has stated to them, in no uncertain terms, that the Cease Fire is OVER!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. The remarks underscored the increasingly contradictory state of...
Neither side has officially called off the interim peace agreement, despite the escalation.
US forces have expanded their military strikes on Iran, after blaming Tehran for breaking the MoU to end the war.
Both sides have accused each other of violating the memorandum of understanding signed in June.
Trump says MoU with 'vicious, violent' Iran is over
A performer at the funeral for Iran’s late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for the death of US President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people on Sunday in the capital, Tehran. The comment represents the first, direct call for Trump’s death by an emcee at the funeral, which has seen posters and graffiti calling for the killing of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. That has been a hardline demand even as Tehran negotiates with the US over a...
Despite Iranian attacks, several GCC states continue to speak with Tehran in effort to mend ties and forge cooperation.
Tehran says a 'communication channel' will be established with Washington to report and discuss breaches of the MoU.
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that indirect talks with Iran in Qatar were making progress, offering a tentative sign that diplomacy was holding after recent exchanges of fire threatened efforts to end the Middle East war. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi, who led Tehran’s delegation, later said the talks had concluded and that the sides had agreed to establish a communication channel by Thursday to report and record violations of their initial memorandum of...
Trump says Iran wants to meet in Qatar after attacks, but Tehran says it is sending a delegation only over frozen funds.
Trump says meeting with Iran will take place in Doha today but Tehran says there are no plans for talks in coming days.
US–Iran peace talks ease market volatility, but uncertainty keeps oil prices hovering, complicating recovery efforts.
Iran’s top diplomat warned on Sunday that any attempt by ships to bypass its preferred route through the Strait of Hormuz would “increase tensions” in the Middle East, as US and Iranian forces again traded attacks. The exchanges underscored the fragility of a Pakistan-brokered agreement aimed at ending the war launched by the United States and Israel in February that disrupted shipping through the strait and rattled global energy markets. Although a ceasefire took effect in April, sporadic...
Both Washington and Tehran know that current deal will not lead to lasting peace. It is merely a strategic pause
Bahrain and Kuwait have condemned Iran’s retaliatory attacks after a second day of US strikes on Iran.