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US demands public Iran pledge on Hormuz as fragile truce frays

Washington is demanding that Tehran publicly guarantee safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz after tanker attacks and reciprocal strikes strained a June ceasefire. Talks continue, but U.S. officials are tying any broader deal to both shipping security and Iran’s nuclear materials.

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US demands public Iran pledge on Hormuz as fragile truce frays
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A narrow waterway becomes the test

Washington is pressing Tehran to make a public pledge that ships can move through every lane of the Strait of Hormuz without attacks or tolls, senior U.S. officials said Friday.asahi The demand follows attacks this week on three Qatari and Saudi commercial tankers, after which U.S. forces hit Iranian sites and Iran answered with strikes on U.S. military facilities in Gulf states.threads

The strait remains the core pressure point because roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply typically moves through it.asahi +1 Iran has refused to give up control of the passage, while U.S. officials said recent conversations had been productive but warned that failing to get a public guarantee would produce “not a good outcome” for Tehran.asahi +1

Talks continue under threat of escalation

U.S. officials said Iran has described the recent shipping attacks as coming from “an errant part of their system,” while Washington sees a live power struggle between hardliners and pragmatists inside Iran.asahi Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi is due to travel to Oman on Saturday for talks on bilateral relations and regional developments, including the situation in the strait, according to reports citing Iran’s IRNA news agency.threads

President Donald Trump has declared a June ceasefire over, but one U.S. official said he had also directed aides to keep talking.threads The same official said Washington would hit back if Iran continued firing on ships or took other hostile actions, and added that any broader deal still depends on Iran turning over more than 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium that U.S. officials call “nuclear dust.”asahi +1

Shipping security and oil risk collide

The latest confrontation followed a second day of U.S.-Iran strikes around the waterway, with U.S. Central Command saying it hit about 90 Iranian military targets tied to threats against navigation.tbsnews Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they struck U.S. bases in Bahrain and Kuwait, while Kuwait and Qatar reported elevated security measures or missile and drone interceptions during the flare-up.tbsnews

Earlier reporting said U.S. strikes were aimed at degrading Iran’s ability to attack international commerce, including coastal radar sites, air defense systems and small boats.instagram Reuters’ Iran war briefing separately reported fresh tanker attacks and U.S. warnings against Iran’s energy infrastructure, underscoring how quickly the dispute over one shipping lane can spill into oil markets, military bases and nuclear diplomacy.reuters