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Follow our live coverage here. TEHRAN – Iran’s military declared the Strait of Hormuz closed again on April 18, its military command said, hours after reopening it and with more than a dozen commercial ships passing through the vital waterway. The to-ing and fro-ing over the strait cast doubt on US President Donald Trump’s optimism the day before, that a peace deal to end the US-Israeli war with Iran was “very close”. Tehran had on April 17 declared the strait, which usually carries a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas, open after a ceasefire was agreed in…
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