Several tankers carrying Iranian oil have, for the first time, passed through a U.S. blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, a tracking website reported Wednesday.
The passage comes two days ahead of Washington and Tehran beginning talks on a tentative peace deal that remains vague on key issues such as Iran’s nuclear program and sanctions relief.
The talks on a final settlement are set to begin Friday at Switzerland's Burgenstock mountain resort, as news that the Hormuz Strait will reopen sent world oil prices tumbling.
Optimism that the war triggered by the Feb. 28 U.S.-Israeli strikes on Tehran might be coming to an end was dented, however, by fresh Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon.
The TankerTrackers website, which monitors oil shipments and storage, marked Iran's "first crude oil exports in two months," citing digital tracking data corroborated by satellite imagery.
