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Iran&#8217;s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday that no negotiations with the U.S. were taking place and no meetings were scheduled.<br \/>This came after U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was holding off on new attacks on Iran pending ongoing talks to end their war and to settle claims over the control of the Strait of Hormuz.<br \/>Traffic remained largely slow at Hormuz, with six vessels transiting the strait on Monday, down from seven on the previous day, according to Kpler data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shipping traffic at the key Gulf waterways of Bab el-Mandeb and Strait of Hormuz held largely unchanged at the start of the week, shipping data showed, as the progress of talks between the United States and Iran remained ambiguous.Twenty vessels passed through the Bab el-Mandeb strait on Monday, Kpler shipping data showed, steady from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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