{"id":220539,"date":"2026-08-14T06:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-iran-talks-in-deadlock-whats-the-latest-al-jazeera\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T06:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:33:10","slug":"us-iran-talks-in-deadlock-whats-the-latest-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-iran-talks-in-deadlock-whats-the-latest-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran talks in deadlock \u2013 what\u2019s the latest? – Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US and Iran continue their standoff in the Strait of Hormuz as mediators try to coax talks.<\/em>
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Strait of Hormuz Becomes Leverage in US\u2013Iran Power Struggle
Iran continues to deny claims by the United States that it controls the Strait of Hormuz as talks aimed at negotiating a peace deal between the two sides falter.
US President Donald Trump repeated his claim that the US is in \u201ctotal control\u201d<\/a> of the critical waterway on Wednesday, but was met with angry denials from Iran, which has stated that it will not reopen the strait<\/a> until demands regarding US aggression, reparations and sanctions are met.<\/p>\n

\u201cClaims and repeated posts by US officials that the Strait of Hormuz is no longer blocked do not change the reality,\u201d Iran\u2019s Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) posted on X on Wednesday.
\u201cThe Strait of Hormuz remains blocked and will not be reopened until Iran\u2019s conditions are accepted,\u201d it added.
Here\u2019s what we know about the latest developments in the strait, through which one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies are shipped during peacetime, and the prospects for ongoing talks.
Iranian forces are currently preventing ships that do not have its express approval from navigating through the narrow strait, which passes through territorial waters of Iran and Oman.
Despite Trump\u2019s claim that the US has control over the strait, shipping traffic<\/a> through the key waterway has dropped to a one-week low as a result of Iran\u2019s blockade.\"INTERACTIVE
Meanwhile, the US is operating a naval blockade on Iranian ports both in and around the strait. On Tuesday, US forces targeted a Panama-flagged vessel they said was headed for an Iranian port, in the Gulf of Oman, and which they alleged had failed to respond to warnings.
On Thursday, Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the US \u201chas long miscalculated due to intelligence failures\u201d, including when launching its war on Iran, which it did alongside Israel with strikes on Tehran on February 28.
In a post on X, Araghchi said Washington\u2019s actions in the Strait of Hormuz were \u201can even bigger miscalculation\u201d.
\u201cWorse than fake news is fake intelligence,\u201d he said.
Hojjatoleslam Hossein Taeb, the commander of the paramilitary Basij Organisation \u2013 an affiliate of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) \u2013 reiterated that the strait is \u201cunder Iran\u2019s control and management\u201d.
\u201cToday you see that the Strait of Hormuz is under the management and control of the Islamic Republic, and our country continues on its path in complete security,\u201d Taeb said on Thursday, according to Iran\u2019s semi-official Fars news agency.
\u201cThe Americans saw the power of the Islamic revolution,\u201d he added.
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Iran says it is not talking directly to the US about the strait. Instead, it says it is holding talks with Oman, which it proposes to share in the future management of the strait.
Following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Iran and the US on June 17, under which Iran undertook to keep the strait open for 60 days, there were soon disagreements about control of the waterway and the routes that ships should take. Iran fired on some ships<\/a> it said had not followed its permitted route, leading to a renewal of hostilities with the US.
Iran also disagreed with the US over whether it could charge fees to ships passing through the strait. As a result, the strait \u2013 which was fully and freely open to all shipping before the US launched its war on Iran \u2013 has become the main obstacle to the progression of wider peace talks.
Now, talks between Iran and Oman are aimed at ironing out these issues.
On Tuesday, Qatar said negotiations between Iran and Oman over the strait had reached \u201can advanced stage\u201d.
\u201cAs mediators, we want the Strait of Hormuz reopened as soon as possible,\u201d Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said during a news conference.
Negotiators are trying to reach a compromise that would allow commercial shipping to resume while addressing the security concerns of both Iran and Oman.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has said<\/a>\u00a0talks with Oman are focused on \u201cestablishing safe inbound and outbound shipping lanes\u201d that \u201cuphold sovereign rights while also addressing the national security considerations of both Iran and Oman\u201d.
Last week, Iran said it had agreed on the coordinates for these shipping lanes with Oman.<\/p>\n

Iran says it is not speaking directly to the US because it has violated the June 17 MoU by restarting strikes on Iran in July.
Now, Pakistan is making efforts to mediate peace talks. It said on Tuesday it was working to bring the US and Iran \u201cto the negotiating table\u201d, as Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi held talks with senior Iranian officials in Tehran.
In April, the US and Iran held face-to-face negotiations, with US Vice President JD Vance and Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf attending talks in Islamabad. On June 17, the two sides remotely signed the MoU, which was supposed to kick-start a 60-day negotiation process. However, various disagreements prevented that process from getting off the ground, and talks have stalled since then.
Alan Eyre, a distinguished diplomatic fellow with the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC, told Al Jazeera earlier this month that the only important negotiations taking place right now are Iran-Oman talks over the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran says it is not worth talking directly because it \u201ccan\u2019t count on anything the US says\u201d, Eyre said.
Commenting on the possibility of future talks between the longtime foes, Negar Mortazavi, senior fellow at the US-based Center for International Policy, said the key question is whether the escalatory rhetoric from both sides is \u201copening negotiating positions or actual red lines\u201d.
\u201cIf both sides are prepared to compromise, there is still a path towards ending the conflict and reopening the strait,\u201d Mortazavi told Al Jazeera on Wednesday.
\u201cIf they are not, Hormuz could remain restricted, and the confrontation risks becoming another prolonged, open-ended conflict in the Middle East.\u201d
At the end of last week, Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council set out new conditions it says the US must meet before the Strait of Hormuz can fully reopen.
The six conditions include an end to US threats against Iran and insults to what Zolghadr described as the country\u2019s national and religious values; a permanent end to attacks against Iran and its allies in Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen and Iraq; the lifting of the US naval blockade and withdrawal of naval and air forces from around Iran; compensation for damage from what he called two \u201cimposed wars\u201d; the lifting of sanctions; and the unconditional release of frozen Iranian assets.
Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday that his administration was going to seek payment for \u201c50 years\u201d of damage caused by Iran, framing the move as a direct response to Tehran\u2019s claims.
The payments, he said, would cover deaths among US forces in the region as well as civilian protesters in Iran, claiming that 52,000 people have been killed in Iran in the past four months. Tehran says some 3,117 people died in antigovernment protests that swept the country in January, prior to the launch of the US-Israel war. In February, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported about 7,000 deaths, including 6,500 protesters.
On Thursday, Al Jazeera\u2019s Tohid Assidi reported, citing observers, that Iran is focused on two primary issues.
\u201cFirst was the security assurances Iran sought, ensuring that a reached deal could pave the way for a period of stability in the country,\u201d Assidi said.
\u201cSecond were economic concerns, primarily articulated in demands for the US naval blockade to be removed and sanctions frozen, which represented the key demands coming from the Iranian side,\u201d he added.
Despite the rhetoric from Trump, analysts have told Al Jazeera that the US may have to concede to some of Iran\u2019s demands as it faces growing pressure domestically to avoid another escalation.
The US media have reported<\/a>\u00a0that concerns over dwindling defensive munitions have contributed to Trump\u2019s decision not to carry out his threatened large-scale strikes against Iran.<\/p>\n

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