4/ Trump also said that the US will interdict every vessel that has paid tolls to Iran. Iran has been using the threat of attacks and naval mines to force ships to use Iranian territorial waters to traverse the Strait, which allows Iran to shakedown these ships for fees.

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5/ The lack of progress in the negotiations is unsurprising—Iran is seeking an all-encompassing agreement that would transform the US-Iran relationship and end the threat of future conflict.
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6/ Iran brought over 70 diplomats, parliamentarians, IRGC-adjacent figures, and high-level economic technocrats to the negotiations, which underscores Iran’s wide-ranging negotiating intentions.

The United States seeks a much narrower agreement centered on the current war and the nuclear program.
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