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Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya military command said any failure to comply with Iran's navigation protocols or deviation from its designated routes through the Strait of Hormuz 'will be met with an immediate and forceful response', after Iranian state TV said a ship ran aground using a route Iran had not approved.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Israel had attacked Iran twice with pre-emptive strikes and 'if necessary, we will strike a third time', and that its forces would stay indefinitely in 'security zones' in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, responding to Israeli media reports that Katz had called Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei 'marked for death', said any threat to Iran's leadership would get an 'immediate powerful response' and that Trump had committed the U.S. to restraining Israel.
Technical-level negotiations between Iran and the U.S. began in Doha with at least three working groups, on the nuclear issue, diplomacy, and the financing and return of frozen funds, and no face-to-face meetings between top officials. Qatar's foreign ministry said 'positive progress' was made and that the next meeting would be held after the funeral of Ali Khamenei.
The Terrorist Financing Targeting Center, which groups the U.S. with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman, jointly designated five entities and 16 individuals in Hezbollah's financial infrastructure, including its Al-Qard Al-Hassan lending institution, Bayt al-Mal and their senior leaders.
The UN Conference on Trade and Development published 'Strait of Hormuz Disruptions: Beyond reopening, lasting impacts on vulnerable economies', assessing the damage to import-dependent developing countries from the closure of the strait.