TEHRAN, 22 August. - (ANA) - Egypt is trying to revive Iran-U.S. negotiations. Iran’s president has said the world accepts that his country has won the war. France and Saudi Arabia are expected to discuss plans to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, where traffic has greatly slowed since the United States and Israel launched the war nearly six months ago.

 

Meanwhile, remarks by the U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria appear to contradict the official U.S. position on the Golan Heights. And Israel has carried out strikes in Syria and in Gaza.

 

Here’s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the wider Middle East on Saturday. Full coverage can be found here.

 

 

 

 

The top diplomats for Egypt and Iran discussed efforts to bring Tehran and Washington back to the negotiating table to settle the war, Egypt’s foreign ministry said.

 

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty also discussed the Iranian-Omani talks on the management of the Strait of Hormuz, the ministry said.

 

Araghchi briefed Egypt’s foreign minister about “Iran’s view of ongoing developments, the course of negotiations and their challenges,” the ministry said, without elaborating.

 

There was no immediate statement from Araghchi.

 

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the war with the U.S. should end since the world has accepted that Iran has won, state media reported Friday. Iran sees its new control over the strait and resistance to U.S. demands as a win.

 

U.S. President Donald Trump said his administration would impose an “unprecedented” level of economic warfare and isolation on Iran, aiming to force its leadership to cave to demands to end its nuclear program and fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for global oil, natural gas and other supplies.

 

 

 

 

The governments of Iraq and Iran said Tehran has helped some ships carrying Iraqi oil to transit the Strait of Hormuz, but there were few details.

 

“There is facilitation for some ships carrying Iraqi oil in the Strait of Hormuz,” Iraqi President Nizar Amidi said in comments published Saturday by the state-run news agency, adding that Iraq doesn’t have a national carrier for transporting oil.

 

Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said a number of Iraqi oil tankers have been permitted to transit and called the request one of Iraq’s most important ones during the recent visit there by Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf.

 

It was not clear how many ships carrying Iraqi oil have been allowed to pass or when, or what Iran might have received in return.   - (ANA) -

 

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