IRGC Pleads For Hormuz Deal As Blockade Bites

Iran has offered Washington a new deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and postpone nuclear talks, according to US officials and sources briefed on the proposal.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi delivered the offer through Pakistani mediators after a fruitless weekend in Islamabad before flying to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin.

Trump is convening a Situation Room meeting on Iran today, but signalled to Fox News he wants the naval blockade to keep choking Iranian oil exports for several more weeks.

Tehran’s scramble for a face-saving exit underlines just how badly the regime is bleeding economically as the war grinds on.