“Attention must now turn to fully implementing the memorandum of understand to ensure the Strait reopens and remains fully and permanently open and that the detailed elements of the nuclear agreement are finalised,” Starmer said in a statement on X.
“We are clear that toll-free freedom of navigation must now be restored” in the waterway, he added.
Oil prices fell sharply on Sunday after US President Donald Trump declared a deal with Iran “complete” and announced the “immediate toll-free reopening of the Strait of Hormuz”, a key artery for global energy supplies.
Brent crude dropped 3.9 per cent to $84 a barrel, while US crude fell 4.8 per cent to around $81 a barrel. The decline added to losses recorded on Friday, when Brent slipped 3.4 per cent and US crude shed 3.2 per cent.
The Strait of Hormuz, through which a significant share of the world’s oil shipments pass, has effectively remained closed since the conflict erupted in late February. According to an Iranian lawmaker, some commercial vessels had been paying an average of about $2 million to transit the waterway.
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Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Alon Pinkas has said President Donald Trump’s public criticism of Israel following its latest strike on Beirut points to an unusually deep rift between Washington and Tel Aviv.
Speaking to Al Jazeera from Israel, Pinkas said it had been decades since Israel had found itself so openly at odds with a US president.
“You’d have to go 30, 40 years back,” he said, referring to tensions during the Ford administration in 1975 and under President George HW Bush in 1991.
While acknowledging previous disagreements between the allies, Pinkas argued that the current dispute is on a different scale.
“There were a lot spats, but nothing like this.”
According to Pinkas, Trump is frustrated because the outcomes he expected from the conflict with Iran have failed to materialise.
“Trump is livid, angry, disillusioned and disappointed with what Netanyahu told him,” he said, claiming that several assumptions presented by the Israeli prime minister had proved incorrect.
“The [Iranian] regime has not been toppled. There was no popular uprising, the IRGC was not demolished, Iran’s missile capability has not been destroyed.”
Pinkas added that Trump’s reaction suggests he has come to believe Netanyahu was attempting to sideline or undermine him politically.
Flights across western Iran have been suspended until further notice, according to IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency. The report said no official Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) had been issued at the time of the announcement.
The reason for the suspension was not immediately specified.
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