Hormuz Strait Remains Shut As Lebanon fighting Strains Truce

By Parisa Hafezi, Maya Gebeily, Maayan Lubell and Ariba Shahid

DUBAI/BEIRUT/JERUSALEM/ISLAMABAD, April 10 (Reuters) – The Strait of Hormuz remained shut on Friday and Israel traded fire with Hezbollah in Lebanon, two disputes which the United States and Iran each described as violations of their ceasefire deal on the eve of their first peace talks of the war.

The two-day-old ceasefire has halted the campaign of U.S. and Israeli air strikes on Iran. But it has so far done nothing to end the blockade of the strait, which has caused the biggest-ever disruption to global energy supplies, or