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And that is a two-sided story.

One is the US naval blockade that is still in place.

As a matter of fact, we heard from Central Command overnight saying that a Navy helicopter had attacked a Panama flagged vessel.

for trying to go through the US blockade into Iranian port

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The hardliners over the weekend have asked for some maximalist demands.

Those include the lifting of the U.S.

naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, a compensation for the damages occurred by the war, and then you also have them asking for the lifting of oil sanctions, the blocked assets.

President Trump, in the latest remarks, has said that, well, if Iran is going to ask for that, the U.S.

will also ask for compensation over the thousands killed over the past 50 years in Iran.

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The latest we know from Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Ariakshi, is that for now, Iran is ruling out negotiations or wider talks with the United States.

He's also said that the repeated violations from the United States on the ceasefire in June hinder any progress in the wider negotiations.

That for now, the only talks that are happening are between Iran and Oman on that mechanism that would according to the

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The two countries were discussing ways or a mechanism to restart shipping through the Strait of Hormuz temporarily to open up some kind of pathway for those vessels that are stuck, for those oil barrels that are stuck to start making their way through the globe.

But for now and until today, what we hear from the Iranian side is that those talks are still ongoing.

They are in the final stages.

And then there are some delays, of course, in getting the formalized final draft.

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The two countries were discussing ways or a mechanism to restart shipping through the Strait of Hormuz temporarily to open up some kind of pathway for those vessels that are stuck, for those oil barrels that are stuck to start making their way through the globe.

But for now and until today, what we hear from the Iranian side is that those talks are still ongoing.

They are in the final stages.

And then there are some delays, of course, in getting the formalized final draft.

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