China’s top diplomat Wang Yi sought guarantees of freedom and safety of international navigation through the Strait of Hormuz in a phone call with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, on Wednesday. The call marked Beijing’s latest diplomacy effort on the Iran war as a US naval blockade of Iranian ports intensifies global energy disruptions and adds uncertainty in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway off Iran’s coast that Tehran effectively closed in response to US-Israeli strikes. “The...