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US signals diplomacy will continue despite Hormuz flare-up
• Summary
• US-Iran talks expected to resume this weekend in Switzerland have been stalled amid recent hostilities, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
• US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said on Sunday the United States would continue targeting Iranian military infrastructure if Tehran threatened shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
• Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei called on the judiciary on Sunday to pursue domestic and international legal cases over damage from US-Israeli strikes Iran.
•Iran alone is responsible for managing and fully reopening maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz under recent understandings, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday in Baghdad.
• Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemned US airstrikes on several monitoring and surveillance facilities along the country’s southern coast, calling them a renewed violation of an interim agreement meant to end the war.
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Asian stocks wobble as US, Iran halt hostilities
Asian stocks wobbled Monday as Iran and the United States agreed to halt recent hostilities that had cast a shadow over their interim peace deal, while oil prices remained supported by uncertainty and the dollar held near a one-year high.
The return to diplomacy follows several days of tit-for-tat strikes after an Iranian projectile hit a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz last week, with both sides accusing the other of violating the interim ceasefire.
S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures gained 0.4% in early trading. South Korea's KOSPI fell nearly 2%, while Japan's Nikkei slipped 1%, leaving MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares down 0.4%.
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Return of Iran-US thaw advocate ignites hardline debate
The return of Iranian-American academic Hooshang Amirahmadi, a longtime advocate of US-Iran normalization, has stirred debate in Tehran, with establishment media divided over the merits of welcoming him back and the signal his visit sends.
Amirahmadi is a retired Rutgers University professor and founder of the American Iranian Council, whose shifting political positions over the years have made him a controversial figure.
Before his latest trip, Amirahmadi said his goal was not friendship between Tehran and Washington but the normalization of diplomatic relations.
"Friendly relations are different from normal relations," he said in an interview with Voice of America before traveling to Iran, adding that he hoped his ideas could help normalize ties between the two countries.
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Hezbollah accuses Israel of breaching Lebanon ceasefire
Hezbollah accused the Israeli military of violating the ceasefire in Lebanon by carrying out several attacks across southern areas on Sunday.
“We are monitoring and observing these violations and reserve our right to defend our homeland and people,” Hezbollah said.
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding stipulates that the war should end on all fronts, including in Lebanon, where Israel has carried out intensified attacks since early March.
Lebanon has become one of the most sensitive elements of the agreement, with Tehran linking progress in talks with Washington to the cessation of Israeli military operations there.
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Araghchi proposes new regional security framework
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran is ready to partner with Persian Gulf states to build a new regional security architecture, arguing that recent events had demonstrated the need for regional countries to take responsibility for their own security.
Speaking after a meeting with Iraqi National Security Adviser Qasim al-Aboudi, Araghchi said regional powers should draw lessons from recent months and collectively shape the region's future security arrangements.
He said any security framework should also include economic cooperation and stressed that military powers from outside the region should be excluded.
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US, Iran to continue technical talks - Reuters
Technical talks between the United States and Iran are set to continue on all areas of the memorandum of understanding, while both sides will stand down for now and vessels will be able to move freely, a US official told Reuters.
The commentssuggest Washington and Tehran are trying to preserve the fragile de-escalation around the Strait of Hormuz as negotiations move into a more technical phase.
No further details were immediately available on the timing or location of the next round of talks.
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