Iran talks stall as the US Senate keeps the war powers question open
Tehran calls warships approaching Hormuz 'legitimate targets'; a resolution to limit the president's war authority fails by a single vote.
Negotiations between Washington and Tehran stalled this week after Iran rejected a US proposal on Strait of Hormuz arrangements, and Iran's deputy foreign minister said warships approaching the strait "will be considered legitimate targets", according to wire reports.
In Washington, the Senate voted 50–49 against a resolution that would have limited the president's war authority on Iran — a single-vote margin that keeps the question alive without settling it.
The International Maritime Organization has counted a dozen ships attacked around Hormuz since early July, with two seafarers killed. For the Maldives, whose fuel and food arrive by sea through these waters, the strait's arithmetic is not abstract.
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