The US naval blockade of Iranian ports remains in place, Iran’s semi-official news agency Tasnim reported on Saturday, citing Iranian seafarers. “The naval blockade is still in place and ships are receiving stop warnings and denial of passage from CENTCOM,” the report cited the seafarers as saying. For his part, a top military advisor to Iran’s supreme leader accused Washington of “betraying diplomacy.” “As expected, the U.S. President is betraying diplomacy for the third time. “By continuing the naval blockade and making excessive demands in negotiations, he has further proven that he is not willing to engage in talks and is pursuing other objectives,” Mohsen Rezaei wrote on the US social media company X. In a Friday post on his […]
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