Iran warns UK, France against Hormuz warship deployment

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said he expected Iran to respond “very soon” to the latest US peace proposal.

“Things are tough for the leaders of Iran right now, and I think they’ve got growing motivation to make a deal,” Wright told Face the Nation on CBS News.

Wright said the United States expected the eventual outcome to include free passage through the Strait of Hormuz and an end to Iran’s nuclear program.

“At the end of the day, we’ll have free flow of traffic through the Straits of Hormuz, and we will have an end to the Iranian nuclear program,” he said.

Wright said ending Iran’s nuclear program would most likely be achieved through negotiations, but “doesn’t necessarily have to be achieved by negotiation.”

President Donald Trump said the United States would eventually get Iran’s enriched uranium buried under rubble and was monitoring the site, in an interview with Sharyl Attkisson on the television program Full Measure.

“We’ll get that at some point... We have it surveilled. I did a thing called Space Force, and they are watching that... If anybody got near the place, we will know about it — and we’ll blow them up,” Trump said.

Trump added that the United States could continue military action against Iran for another two weeks and strike more targets.

“We could go in for two more weeks and do every single target,” Trump said.

“We have certain targets that we wanted, and we’ve done probably 70 percent of them, but we have other targets that we could conceivably hit,” he added.

Iran’s proposed text in response to the latest US proposal focuses on ending the war on all fronts, especially in Lebanon, state media said on Sunday.

The United Arab Emirates strongly condemned drone attacks on Kuwait on Sunday, calling them terrorist acts and a threat to Kuwait’s sovereignty and security.

The ministry said the UAE stood in full solidarity with Kuwait and supported all measures to preserve its security and stability.

A Panama-flagged bulk carrier bound for Brazil passed through the Strait of Hormuz using a route designated by Iran’s armed forces, IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News reported on Sunday.

The vessel was identified as the Mdl Toofan, with the report saying it had departed from Saudi Arabia’s Ras al-Khair port and was headed to Rio Grande.

The ship had tried to pass through the strait on May 4 but was turned back by Iranian armed forces, according to the report.