Home Middle East Live Issued on: 22/08/2026 - 11:48Modified: 22/08/2026 - 11:51 Children wade in the water with cargo ships at anchor in the background and a fisherman nearby, in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Tuesday, June 30, 2026 © Amirhosein Khorgooi, AP Iran has allowed a number of Iraqi oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz following repeated requests from Baghdad, Iran’s state news agency reported on Saturday. Meanwhile, the United States and Iran exchanged defiant messages ahead of Monday's scheduled announcement of new US economic sanctions. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates. Yesterday's key developments: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the war with the US should end since the world has already accepted that Iran has won. US President Donald Trump said he did not think that Iran was ready make the "right deal", and that Washington was observing "what happens" in the conflict. The Strait of Hormuz remained bottled up with thousands of seafarers stranded on hundreds of vessels, ship-tracking data showed. (FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters) Keywords for this article
Middle East live: Iran allows several Iraqi oil tankers to pass through Hormuz strait
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