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Yemen\u2019s Houthis<\/a>\u00a0attacked a crucial port on the Red Sea<\/a>, killing people and further escalating the conflict over strategic waterways in the Middle East. They also said they attacked an oil facility on Sunday in southwestern Saudi Arabia, the latest attack by the Iranian-backed rebels on the kingdom.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile,\u00a0Iran<\/a>\u00a0has made new demands about the restart of negotiations and the reopening of the\u00a0Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, the\u00a0Pentagon is pressing the U.S. defense industry<\/a>\u00a0to accelerate production of weapons and Israel is insisting it won\u2019t withdraw from Gaza until Hamas disarms.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look at developments across the Middle East on Sunday. Full coverage can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Houthis target Aramco refinery, Red Sea port<\/h4>\n

The National Resistance Forces, a Yemeni government-allied force, said at least seven people \u2014 four troops and three civilians \u2014 were killed and 15 civilians were injured in the Houthis\u2019 attacks Sunday on Mokha, a crucial port on the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

Fayed al-Noman, assistant undersecretary of the information ministry, said the Houthis fired missiles and drones on the port, severely damaging its buildings and pier as well as commercial goods and food supplies at the facility.<\/p>\n

Mokha is one of the main ports under Yemen\u2019s internationally recognized government, renovated in recent years to handle shipping that avoids the Houthi-held ports in Hodeida.<\/p>\n

The Houthis later claimed the attack, saying they fired \u201ca large number of ballistic missiles and drones\u201d that targeted military enforcement and warehouses in the area.<\/p>\n

Yahya Saree, a military spokesperson for the Houthis, said they also targeted an Aramco refinery in the city of Jazan with a drone. The attack was in response to Saudi drones\u2019 breaching Yemen\u2019s airspace over the provinces of Hajjah and Saada, he said.<\/p>\n

Early on Sunday, the Saudi Energy Ministry reported a fire at a facility belonging to the Aramco refinery without casualties. The ministry said the fire was extinguished but it didn\u2019t describe its cause.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s Houthi attack is the latest in a series of missile and drone attacks that have targeted Saudi Arabia and its shipping in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

The escalation threatens to reignite Yemen\u2019s civil war more than four years after a 2022 truce stopped major fighting in the impoverished Arab country.<\/p>\n

\u2014 by Samy Magdy in Cairo.<\/p>\n

Details emerge about potential Iran-Oman deal<\/h4>\n

The Strait of Hormuz, crucial to global supplies of oil and natural gas, was considered an international waterway before the war.<\/p>\n

But Iran and Oman are working to finalize a temporary deal that would reopen the strait with ships entering the strait through a route close to Iran and exiting through a route close to Oman, according to two people familiar with the talks who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.<\/p>\n

Ships would cross the strait without paying fees or tolls during the interim period.<\/p>\n

The agreement is designed to restore an earlier, separate agreement between the U.S. and Iran and restart a 60-day clock for the two countries to negotiate over Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n

According to the two people who spoke about the talks, the deal is endorsed by members of the Gulf Cooperation Council and expected when finalized to be jointly announced by Iran, Oman, the U.S., and the International Maritime Organization of the United Nations. But the people stressed the terms could still change before the deal is final.<\/p>\n

\u2014 by Michelle Price in Washington and Aamer Madhani in New York.<\/p>\n

Pentagon pushes boost in weapons production<\/h4>\n

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said on Saturday that the department was actively focused on boosting munitions acquisitions to provide \u201cthe weapons our warfighters need at the pace the threat demands.\u201d<\/p>\n

The war\u00a0with Iran<\/a>\u00a0has used up more of the U.S. military\u2019s already diminished stockpiles of advanced missile interceptors, says\u00a0a new analysis<\/a>\u00a0from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.<\/p>\n

Parnell\u2019s statement said the push for speedier delivery was part of a broader modernization effort that predated the five-month-old conflict.<\/p>\n

Iran says negotiations with US \u2018cannot resume\u2019 until conditions met<\/h4>\n

Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said negotiations with Oman about \u201cnew maritime routes\u201d through the Strait of Hormuz were \u201cin the final stages.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis, however, does not mean that the Strait of Hormuz will reopen,\u201d Araghchi told reporters in Tehran on Sunday. \u201cAn agreement on the routes may be reached, but reopening the strait is subject to a number of other conditions, which have been conveyed through intermediaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s powerful Supreme National Security Council has said the Strait of Hormuz will not open until the U.S. \u201ccorrects its behavior,\u201d issuing new demands that could shake up talks on a deal to manage the waterway.<\/p>\n

The demands include the U.S. never threaten Iran again, a permanent end to the war with Iran and its armed allies in the region, a lifting of the naval blockade of Iranian ports and a withdrawal of its military from the area, according the statement by the supreme council\u2019s secretary, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, published by Iran\u2019s state broadcaster.<\/p>\n

According to the U.S. Central Command, the blockade has redirected 53 commercial vessels, disabled two, and boarded two through Saturday.<\/p>\n

About overall negotiations, Araghchi said that an \u201cexchange of messages through intermediaries\u201d is continuing with the United States, but that doesn\u2019t constitute negotiations.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom our perspective, negotiations cannot resume until the violations of the memorandum of understanding have ended and the United States has remedied the provisions of the memorandum that it violated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Iranian media release undated video of Khamenei<\/h4>\n

Iran\u2019s semiofficial Mehr news agency has shared an undated video apparently showing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. The Associated Press cannot independently verify when and where the undated video was filmed. Mehr shared a video in March that appeared to have been recorded at the same event, apparently a jurisprudence class.<\/p>\n

Khamenei is understood to have stopped publicly teaching in 2024. He reportedly sustained serious injuries during the opening stages of the U.S.-Iran war and hasn\u2019t been seen in public since.<\/p>\n

It is not clear why Mehr released the footage on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu insists no Gaza withdrawal until Hamas disarms<\/h4>\n

Israeli Prime Minister\u00a0Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>\u00a0said Israel\u2019s military \u201cwill not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking at Sunday\u2019s weekly cabinet meeting, he said Israel is discussing\u00a0plans for Gaza<\/a>\u00a0with the United States, saying that some of the American ideas are acceptable to Israel and others are not \u2014 further\u00a0pushing back on the deal<\/a>\u00a0announced by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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