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It &#8220;will only be a Great Deal for all, or no Deal at all,&#8221; he wrote.<\/div>\n<div>In another indication of \u200bthe region&#8217;s tensions, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday Israel would intensify strikes against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.<\/div>\n<div>Israel&#8217;s military soon thereafter said it was \u200battacking Hezbollah infrastructure in Lebanon&#8217;s eastern Bekaa Valley and other areas.<\/div>\n<div>Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire in mid-April, but Israel has continued airstrikes it says are acts of self-defence against Hezbollah, \u200cwhich was \u2060not party to the truce.<\/div>\n<h2>DOHA TALKS<\/h2>\n<div>The official briefed on the Iranians&#8217; Doha visit told Reuters the discussions focused on the Strait of Hormuz and Iran&#8217;s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, while Iran&#8217;s central bank governor attended to discuss the potential release of frozen Iranian funds as part of a final deal.<\/div>\n<div>Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said earlier that nuclear issues would only be negotiated after the framework accord was agreed.<\/div>\n<div>Trump has said his key aim in the war is to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon \u200bwith its highly enriched uranium. Tehran has \u200bconsistently denied it has plans to do \u2060that.<\/div>\n<div>Baghaei said the potential Iran deal contained no specific details on management of the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of the world&#8217;s oil and liquefied natural gas usually flows.<\/div>\n<div>Iran would not charge tolls for ships to pass through but there \u200bwould be a cost for services offered such as navigation and steps to protect the environment, he said, under a protocol \u200bto be agreed with \u2060Oman, which lies on the opposite shore of the waterway.<\/div>\n<div>Citing a Middle East diplomatic source, Japan&#8217;s Nikkei newspaper reported the U.S. and Iran were discussing a plan to open the strait about 30 days after reaching a deal to end hostilities.<\/div>\n<div>Since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28, only a few dozen vessels have been passing through the \u2060Strait of Hormuz \u200bcompared with 125 to 140 daily previously.<\/div>\n<div>The stand-off has caused a spike in oil prices and driven \u200bup the costs of fuel, fertiliser and food.<\/div>\n<div>In early Asian trade on Tuesday, U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was up slightly from Monday&#8217;s last traded price but down 5.5% from Friday&#8217;s close.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=244\">Overheating chemical\u00a0tank in California no longer at risk of exploding, fire officials say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=242\">US Justice Department seeks to lift injunction on ballroom project after shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=240\">Warning lights flash as aluminium reels from Gulf shock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday negotiating a deal with Iran could &#8220;take a few days,&#8221; quashing hopes for an imminent end to the conflict \u200ba day after U.S. forces conducted what Washington called defensive strikes in southern Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-middle-east"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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