The deal would address President Trump’s most urgent political problem by allowing ships to move again. But it would give Iran strategic leverage it did not have before the war.
Ships in the Strait of Hormuz seen from Musandam, Oman, in June. An emerging deal, if it happens, would reopen shipping traffic in the strait, according to Iranian and U.S. officials.
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, said in a post on Tuesday that Andrii Sybiha, his Ukrainian counterpart, had described an attack on a cargo ship as unintentional.
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