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A document from the International Maritime Organization said countries must reject Iranian efforts to control the Strait of Hormuz, The Times of Israel reported. The UAE and allied states had submitted a joint proposal on Hormuz to the IMO Council's 187th session, which Iran had called politically motivated and urged the council not to adopt.
Mehr reported several explosions in Bushehr province, including near the nuclear power plant and at a fishing port in Asaluyeh. One Iranian official accused the U.S. of targeting the plant's perimeter, while the provincial governor denied the plant was attacked and officials said there was no damage or casualties.
Lebanon will attend the next round of direct negotiations with Israel in Rome the following week only if Israel withdraws from two 'pilot zones' in the south, a diplomatic source familiar with the talks told AFP.
Brent rose 6% to about $78 a barrel after Trump said the deal with Iran was over, up from $71.80 at the end of the previous week. On July 9 it eased 0.7% to $77.45, and it ended the week at about $76, while the average U.S. gasoline price rose 5 cents overnight to $3.85, according to AAA.
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A U.S. official told Reuters that Washington and Tehran had agreed to halt hostilities, with vessels free to move and technical talks to continue in Doha, and Trump later posted that 'Iran has requested a meeting' there. Iran's foreign ministry said no meetings with the U.S. were planned at any level, and Qatar said U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were in Doha but would not meet Iranian officials, adding that $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds had not been transferred.
Brent crude fell to a low of $72.24 a barrel, slightly below its level the day before the war began on February 28 and down more than 20% in June, as vessel traffic through the strait doubled in 24 hours to its highest since late February. Prices rose about 2% later in the day after a ship was hit off Oman.
Brent crude fell about 4% to around $83 a barrel on Monday, touching just over $82, its lowest since March 10, as markets bet the Strait of Hormuz would reopen; European wholesale gas fell 6% and the Dow closed at a record high.
AP reported that Lebanese army troops withdrew from their barracks in Kfar Tebnit as Israeli forces advanced toward the strategic Ali Taher hill near Nabatieh, where L'Orient Today reported heavy clashes. The Israeli military said it hit more than 70 Hezbollah sites in the past day, and the Lebanese army said an Israeli drone seriously wounded one of its soldiers near Nabatieh.
CNN reported, citing sources, that Iran had in recent weeks moved to seal its near-weapons-grade uranium stockpile, collapsing tunnel entrances and laying mines, amid fears of a U.S. operation to seize the material, which sources described as highly risky.
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Two regional sources told Reuters the UAE had agreed to release $10 billion in Iranian funds, more than $3 billion of it already delivered, and two others put the total at $20 billion, in return for a halt to Iranian attacks on the UAE. The UAE foreign ministry denied that any frozen Iranian funds had been released or transferred.
U.S. officials told CBS News the Pentagon was planning how it could support Energy Department teams in locating, securing and removing Iran's highly enriched uranium, including a scenario deploying troops to several Middle East countries for a rapid-response operation; officials stressed the planning was preliminary and not a decision to act.
Brent, near $93 before Trump called off the strikes, briefly fell below $85 a barrel on Friday and ended about 3% lower at around $87.50, its lowest since the first week of the war, while U.S. stocks extended their rally.
Mehr published a 14-point list it said was in the draft memorandum, including an immediate end to war on all fronts including Lebanon, lifting the U.S. blockade and reopening Hormuz 'with Iranian arrangements' within 30 days, suspension of oil sanctions, release of $24 billion in frozen funds and 60 days of nuclear talks, with missiles and support for armed groups off the agenda. IRNA said Iran would not give up management of the strait and state media said Iran would keep its right to enrich.
A Guardian analysis of Trump's claim of a 'secret mission' found that shuttle tankers running with transponders off and ship-to-ship transfers may have moved about 1.9 million barrels a day through the strait since April, according to Kpler, against 15.6 million a day before the war; Lloyd's List said U.S. 'overwatch operations' were helping some of these transits along the Omani coast.
Axios reported that four U.S. Air Force planes left for Europe to prepare for a possible U.S.-Iran signing in Geneva, where Vice President JD Vance was expected to sign, and Switzerland offered to host it. Iran's Fars news agency, citing a source close to the negotiating team, said reports of a Sunday signing in Geneva were false, and Iran's foreign ministry said it could not discuss a time or place before a decision in Tehran.
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U.S. forces shot down two Iranian one-way attack drones as Tehran appeared to try to strike commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official told Reuters, adding that 'traffic flow through the strait continues'.
CBS reported that a U.S.-Iran memorandum was likely to be signed early the next week, opening 60 days of talks, with first steps to demine and reopen Hormuz, Iran committing in principle to a 15-20 year halt to enrichment, and financial relief staggered to match compliance. Axios reported the draft would extend the ceasefire for 60 days including Lebanon, reopen the strait immediately with pre-war shipping volumes within 30 days, and lift sanctions only with compliance.
Brent futures fell $3.37, or 3.6%, to $89.73 a barrel and U.S. WTI fell $3.20 to $86.83 after Trump cancelled the planned strikes, AP reported. In Asian trading WTI slid a further 1.9% to $86.08 and Brent 1.5% to $89.08, two-month lows, while South Korea's Kospi jumped more than 7%.
A strike about 15 metres from Hiram hospital in Tyre wounded 10 medical and administrative staff, shattered windows and damaged cars, the hospital's director told AFP, saying the area had been targeted six times since the war began. An Israeli strike on Mashghara in West Bekaa killed one person and wounded another, L'Orient Today's correspondent reported.
Senior national security officials from the UAE and Iran held their first face-to-face meeting since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began, to try to de-escalate tensions, Bloomberg reported.
Efforts to reach a preliminary U.S.-Iran deal intensified overnight as negotiators discussed a mechanism to release frozen Iranian funds, Iranian sources and a European official told Reuters; one Iranian source said Iran wanted $6 billion to $12 billion released, while Washington wanted staged releases for humanitarian goods.
QatarEnergy-controlled Lebrethah and Rasheeda and ADNOC-managed Marigold reappeared on ship-tracking data on June 10 after leaving the Strait of Hormuz dark, with Lebrethah bound for Pakistan and Marigold for India, according to LSEG and Kpler data cited by Reuters. That brings LNG cargoes out of Hormuz since the war began in late February to 12.
Qatari negotiators left Tehran after talks with Iranian officials that lasted into the early hours and were 'conducted in coordination with the United States', a diplomat told AFP.
Iranian state television said water service had been restored within 12 hours to Kouhestak and villages in the Bemani district after U.S. strikes on two reservoirs in Sirik on Wednesday cut drinking water to nearly 20,000 people.
Trump told Fox News he had spoken directly with Iranian officials who asked him to stop the strikes, that the bombing would 'stop shortly' but further strikes remained possible, and that the U.S. had fired 49 Tomahawk missiles at targets in Iran. Iranian officials rejected the claim of direct contact.
NBC News reported that leaders of about seven defence companies were preparing to meet Trump at the White House later in the week, where he was expected to press them to speed up weapons production amid concern over dwindling U.S. missile and interceptor stocks; one person said the meeting was 'going to be ugly'.
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Israel's army said it struck six Hezbollah sites in Tyre and launchers elsewhere, and its jets hit the Tyre, Nabatieh, Bint Jbeil and Jezzine districts and the West Bekaa, including 16 strikes on Majdal Zoun; NNA said an evening series of strikes killed 12 people and wounded 13, including two paramedics. Hezbollah claimed drone and rocket attacks on troops in Qantara, Zawtar al-Sharqiyah and Bayyada, and the toll since March 2 reached 3,696.
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Shell CEO Wael Sawan told a Wall Street Journal summit that more than 10 percent of global oil production and about 20 percent of global LNG output had been knocked offline since the war began, and that the disruption was 'particularly acute in Asia', with Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand rationing fuel and Pakistan and the Philippines moving to four-day working weeks.
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Kpler tracking data showed the Marshall Islands-flagged Advantage Victory, which passed through the Strait of Hormuz on May 27 with 2 million barrels of Iraqi crude, had set Rotterdam as its destination and was due on July 7, the first Gulf crude cargo bound for Europe since March 1. About 103 tankers carrying 185 million barrels of crude had left the Gulf through Hormuz since March 1, Kpler said.
A Qatari delegation arrived in Tehran to discuss bilateral relations, regional developments and efforts to end the war, Iranian media said, and a diplomat told AFP the negotiators had travelled after consultations with U.S. officials to address remaining differences between Washington and Tehran.