Daily Memo: Progress on Reopening Hormuz, Kazakhstan Calls for Freezing Ukraine War

The U.S. paused strikes on Iran after negotiations on the strait reportedly made some progress.

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Strikes on hold. Negotiations between Iran and Oman on reopening the Strait of Hormuz have yielded progress, unnamed regional officials told CBS News, and the Trump administration paused further strikes on Iran so as not to disrupt the diplomatic process. Separately, the secretary-general of Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, a pro-Iran militia in Iraq, spoke out in […]

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