{"id":645584,"date":"2026-05-03T18:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645584\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T18:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:41:12","slug":"cargo-ship-near-strait-of-hormuz-says-its-attacked-as-iran-pushes-new-peace-deal-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645584\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargo ship near Strait of Hormuz says it\u2019s attacked as Iran pushes new peace deal – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

A cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz said it was attacked by multiple small craft, according to the British military\u2019s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center on Sunday, marking at least two dozen attacks in and around the strait since the Iran war began.<\/p>\n

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All crew on the unidentified northbound carrier were safe after the attack off Sirik, Iran, east of the strait, the monitor said. Iranian officials have asserted that they control the strait and that ships not affiliated with the United States or Israel can pass if they pay a toll.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the first reported in the area since April 22, when a cargo ship reported being fired upon, the monitor said. The threat level in the area remains critical. Tehran effectively closed the strait by attacking and threatening ships.<\/p>\n

Iranian patrol boats, some powered only by twin outboard motors, are small, nimble and hard to detect. President Donald Trump last month ordered the U.S. military to \u201cshoot and kill\u201d small Iranian boats that deploy mines in the strait.<\/p>\n

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The fragile three-week ceasefire appears to be holding, though Trump on Saturday told journalists that further strikes remained a possibility.<\/p>\n

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Iran\u2019s latest proposal to the United States wants issues between them to be resolved within 30 days and aims to end the war rather than extend the ceasefire, according to Iran\u2019s state-linked media.<\/p>\n

Trump on Saturday said he was reviewing the proposal but expressed doubt it would lead to a deal, adding on social media that \u201cthey have not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done to Humanity, and the World, over the last 47 years\u201d since the Islamic Revolution there.<\/p>\n

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Iran\u2019s 14-point proposal also calls for the U.S. lifting sanctions on\u00a0Iran, ending the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports, withdrawing forces from the region and ceasing all hostilities, including Israel\u2019s operations in Lebanon, according to the semiofficial Nour News and Tasnim agencies, which have close ties to Iran\u2019s security organizations.<\/p>\n

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There was no mention in those reports, however, of Iran\u2019s nuclear program and its\u00a0enriched uranium, long the central issue in tensions with the U.S. and one that Tehran would rather address later.<\/p>\n

Iran\u00a0sent its reply via\u00a0Pakistan, which hosted face-to-face talks last month\u00a0between\u00a0Iran\u00a0and the United States.<\/p>\n

Pakistan\u2019s prime minister, foreign minister and army chief continue to encourage the U.S. and\u00a0Iran\u00a0to speak directly, according to two officials in Pakistan who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.<\/p>\n

Also on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi spoke with Oman\u2019s Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, who oversaw previous rounds of talks before the war.<\/p>\n

Iran stands firm on Strait of Hormuz issues<\/p>\n

Trump has offered a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, where about a fifth of the world\u2019s trade in oil and natural gas typically passes, along with fertilizer badly needed by farmers around the world.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s grip on the strait, imposed after the U.S. and Israel launched the war on Feb. 28, has shaken global markets.<\/p>\n

Tehran \u201cwill not back down from our position on the Strait of Hormuz, and it will not return to its prewar conditions,\u201d Iran\u2019s deputy parliament speaker said Sunday. Ali Nikzad, who has no decision-making power in parliament, spoke while visiting port facilities on strategic Larak Island.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. has warned shipping companies they could face sanctions for paying Iran in any form, including digital assets, to transit the strait safely.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the U.S. naval blockade since April 13 is depriving Tehran of oil revenue it needs to shore up its ailing economy. The U.S. Central Command on Sunday said 49 commercial ships have been told to turn back.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe think that they\u2019ve gotten less than $1.3 million in tolls, which is a pittance on their previous daily oil revenues,\u201d U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Sunday. He said Iran\u2019s oil storage is rapidly filling up and \u201cthey\u2019re going to have to start shutting in wells, which we think could be in the next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\tIn Tehran, rial continues to tumble<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the second day of Iran\u2019s working week, the rial weakened further against the U.S. dollar. In Tehran\u2019s Ferdowsi Street, the capital\u2019s main currency exchange hub, the dollar was trading at 1,840,000 rials.<\/p>\n

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Analysts say there is a\u00a0strong possibility the currency will slip\u00a0further.<\/p>\n

The rial was trading at\u00a01.3 million to the dollar in December,\u00a0a record low at the time, and triggered\u00a0widespread protests\u00a0over the worsening economy. Markets in Tehran remain unstable, with prices of some goods rising daily.<\/p>\n

According to reports in Iranian media, several factories have not renewed contracts for workers after the Iranian new year in March, and significant numbers have lost their jobs.<\/p>\n

Yousef Pezeshkian, the son and adviser of President Masoud Pezeshkian, wrote on Telegram that both the United States and\u00a0Iran\u00a0see themselves as the winner of the war and are unwilling to back down.<\/p>\n

Nobel committee urges treatment for Iranian laureate<\/p>\n

The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Saturday urged\u00a0Iran\u00a0to immediately transfer imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate\u00a0Narges Mohammadi\u00a0for treatment by her medical team in Tehran after her health sharply deteriorated.<\/p>\n

The committee said it was in touch with Mohammadi\u2019s family and lawyer, and that the 2023 laureate\u2019s life remains at risk.<\/p>\n

The rights lawyer fainted twice in prison on Friday in the northwestern city of Zanjan, her foundation said, and was admitted to a local hospital. Her lawyers have said she is believed to have suffered a heart attack in late March.<\/p>\n

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\u2014Lidman reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. Associated Press writers Amir Vahdat Tehran, Iran and Munir Ahmed in Islamabad contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz said it was attacked by multiple small craft, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1376,43,5897,202944,44,41,39,42,40,2845,3275],"class_list":["post-645584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-u-s-news","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}