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\n It\u2019s been a volatile weekend in the Middle East. The flare-up between the US and Iran comes as both countries near the halfway mark of a 60-day window to negotiate the final terms of a deal, following an initial agreement<\/a> in June.\n <\/p>\n \n What happened over the weekend:\n <\/p>\n \n As mediators race to revive diplomacy, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi travels to Muscat to meet with his Omani counterpart. Oman drafts a tentative proposal to manage traffic in the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> through two separately controlled routes, according to a source.\n <\/p>\n \n Hours later, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) say they fired a warning shot at a vessel<\/a> trying to cross the Strait of Hormuz via an unauthorized route, and declares the waterway closed.\n <\/p>\n \n The US military launches its third round of strikes<\/a> in a week, saying the IRGC \u201cblatantly attacked\u201d a Cyprus-flagged container ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Multiple explosions<\/a> are reported in the south of Iran. In a later update, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) says it hit 140 Iranian military targets.<\/a>\n <\/p>\n \n The IRGC says it launched strikes<\/a> on US military targets across the Gulf. Authorities in Gulf nations report defending against attacks, including in Qatar, where three people are hurt by falling debris<\/a> during interception operations.\n <\/p>\n \n Indian authorities say one of its nationals is missing<\/a> after an attack on a commercial vessel on the Strait of Hormuz. It adds 10 others were rescued from the ship.\n <\/p>\n \n The US and Iran are at odds over the status of the Strait Hormuz. US President Donald Trump<\/a> and CENTCOM<\/a> insist the waterway is open, while Iran\u2019s strait authority<\/a> says the passage of vessels is \u201cnot possible.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n The US military launches another round of strikes after the previous day\u2019s assault in the evening and says it hit dozens of Iranian military targets<\/a>. Iran reports multiple explosions in the south<\/a> of the country, including at a water pumping station<\/a> where one person was killed.\n <\/p>\n \n Iran says it conducted a new wave of missile and drone attacks<\/a> toward US bases in the region, including those in Kuwait<\/a> and Bahrain<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n Dalia Abdelwahab, Aleena Fayaz, Eyad Kourdi, Mitchell McCluskey, Laura Sharman, Julia Benbrook, Billy Stockwell, Aida Karimi, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Zachary Cohen, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Lex Harvey contributed reporting.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a volatile weekend in the Middle East. The flare-up between the US and Iran comes as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-759989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}