Iran allowed 10 oil tankers to pass through the strategic Strait of Hormuz as a “present” to show it was serious about negotiations to end the war, U.S. President Donald Trump said at at a Cabinet meeting in the White House on Thursday (March 26, 2026).
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Meanwhile, Iran’s initial response to the U.S. proposal to end the war, which was conveyed to Pakistan, was that it was “one-sided and unfair”, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Thursday (March 26, 2026), adding that a path forward might still be found if realism prevailed in Washington.
Iran’s Parliament is working on a bill to formalise the fees it is reportedly charging on some ship transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, local media reported.
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