{"id":229644,"date":"2026-11-03T18:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-hits-qeshm-island-pezeshkian-signals-more-diplomacy-iran-war-latest-al-jazeera\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T18:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:45:12","slug":"us-hits-qeshm-island-pezeshkian-signals-more-diplomacy-iran-war-latest-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-hits-qeshm-island-pezeshkian-signals-more-diplomacy-iran-war-latest-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"US hits Qeshm Island, Pezeshkian signals more diplomacy: Iran war latest – Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the first US attack on Qeshm Island since June, Iran and the US are on parallel tracks towards both peace and war.<\/em>
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Amid growing concerns about renewed attacks on Iran following Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections in the United States, US forces have struck Iran\u2019s Qeshm Island<\/a> in what officials have reportedly described as a defensive measure.
In the first attack since June on Qeshm Island, which serves as the primary platform for Iran\u2019s \u201casymmetric\u201d naval power<\/a>, according to analysts, the US strikes come as both sides continue to adopt military and diplomatic postures.
Mediation efforts led by Qatar are continuing in a bid to avert a return to all-out war, which began on February 28 when the US and Israel launched strikes across Iran, triggering the closure of the critical Strait of Hormuz, surging oil and gas prices and massive damage to military, civil and energy facilities around the Gulf.
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Several explosions were heard on Qeshm Island late on Monday, as US media reported that the US military had carried out what officials called \u201cdefensive strikes\u201d in the Strait of Hormuz.
The blasts came in rapid succession, according to Iran\u2019s state-owned IRNA news agency. Witnesses told the agency they saw two planes flying over the island, located off Iran\u2019s southern coast along the waterway.
According to The Wall Street Journal, which quoted\u00a0an unnamed official, the strikes on Monday night appeared limited and were not a resumption of a major operation.
The Associated Press news agency also quoted an unnamed US official as saying Washington had conducted the defensive strikes against \u201cIranians using surface-to-air missiles against US assets\u201d.
The attack came after IRNA reported that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had destroyed a US MQ-9 drone east of the Strait of Hormuz.
The US first struck a critical desalination plant<\/a> on Qeshm Island on March 7 \u2013 one week into the war. The strike, which Tehran branded a \u201cflagrant crime\u201d against civilians, cut off freshwater supplies to 30 surrounding villages.
It is, but it is fragile, and mixed messages are coming from both sides.
Qatari mediators have been engaged in indirect talks with Iranian officials in recent days. They have passed messages between the two sides, but the talks\u00a0appeared to come to an end on Monday with no news of a breakthrough.
An official briefed on the talks told the Reuters news agency that Iran\u2019s delegation had departed from Doha on Sunday, but that a draft proposal was still being circulated, without elaborating on the content.
Qatari mediators travelled to Tehran on Monday night for talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi\u00a0regarding a version of a draft US-Iran deal which has been under negotiation for the past eight days, an official told Reuters.
Araghchi told IRNA on Monday: \u201cConsultations through mediators are very intensive. We have presented our conditions and proposals, and everything depends on the political rationality of Washington.\u201d
Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei<\/a> also told a news conference on Monday that the \u201cball\u201d was in the US\u2019s court as Iran\u2019s demands were \u201cclear and logical\u201d.
He said the plan Iran submitted in September to end the war remained the focus of talks, but that the proposal could be shortened and implemented in \u201ctwo days\u201d, including reopening the Strait of Hormuz and returning to talks about Iran\u2019s nuclear programme.
On Monday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei had given the government \u201ccertain authorities\u201d over talks with the US, local media reported.
The president added that Tehran would look to resolve the conflict through dialogue.
Khamenei\u2019s apparent approval of diplomacy marks a change since the breakdown of the June memorandum of understanding<\/a>, which allowed a brief ceasefire and peace negotiations, when the supreme leader said the US could not be trusted.
For the US side, Vice President JD Vance also told reporters on Monday that he was hopeful for a diplomatic solution \u2013 just hours before the strikes on Qeshm Island.
\u201cThe president and I both feel pretty good about the prospects for potentially coming to a negotiated settlement,\u201d Vance said. \u201cWe\u2019ve certainly made some progress. We\u2019ll see if we can make some more.\u201d
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf reiterated on Tuesday that Iran\u2019s response to any US \u201cmiscalculation\u201d, such as launching strikes, would be unpredictable.<\/a>
\u201cThe enemy seeks to force the Iranian nation into submission through threats and military action, but they are sorely mistaken; Iran will not submit,\u201d he said.
Oil prices dropped by more than 7 percent on Monday. In response, Trump<\/a> wrote on his Truth Social account that people believe the war with Iran\u00a0will not resume\u00a0as mediation efforts continue.
\u201cIran wants a settlement, as soon as possible. It could happen!\u201d Trump wrote.
He told media at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, that it looked like efforts were \u201ccoming together very nicely\u201d.
\u201cThat\u2019s why I guess the oil prices dropped. People found out about it.\u201d
However, Trump also told the US media outlet Axios before his post on Truth Social that he was \u201cin no rush\u201d to decide whether to resume strikes on Iran.
\u201cOne way or the other, we will do something, but there is no rush. We crippled them financially. They have no money, no gasoline, and their people are getting very tired of it,\u201d Trump told Axios in an interview.
The US midterm elections<\/a>\u00a0are being viewed as the inflexion point for Trump\u2019s decision on what path he takes next.
The president has suggested several times that he could attack Iran following the vote and told the Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) on Sunday that the conflict would end \u201cvery soon one way or the other\u201d, adding that Tehran would either \u201cmake a deal, or we\u2019ll just end it\u201d.
Observers say the US will likely renew strikes on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities if they do resume.
In particular, this could include Iran\u2019s Pickaxe Mountain<\/a>, a highly fortified site that contains two tunnel complexes buried deep underground, and which Trump told US outlet Newsmax last month could be a target. He said the US \u201cmay have to go there. We\u2019ll take a shot at that one. We\u2019ll knock it out fast.\u201d
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