Iran war live: Tehran hits back after latest Trump threats over Hormuz

 LIVE – Updated at 20:00

Iran hit back at Donald Trump on Monday after the US president threatened to “take over the rest of the country” if the Strait of Hormuz is closed again.

“You make threats; we take action,” Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, wrote on social media in apparent reference to Trump.

“The Strait of Hormuz is neither your personal casino nor the backyard of modern-day pirates; these are Iranian sovereign waters, and the ultimate decision rests with the noble people of Iran and its brave armed forces.”

Iran lifted its effective blockade of Hormuz last week after agreeing with the US to extend a ceasefire to allow for peace negotiations, but Tehran’s Revolutionary Guards on Saturday declared the waterway shut once again, in response to Israeli strikes in Lebanon.

The US president said in response he had warned Iranian officials that “you close [the strait] and you won’t have a country”, Fox News’s Trey Yingst reported on Sunday.

High stakes talks aimed at finalising a deal to end the war are meanwhile expected to continue through the week, after a “difficult” start that saw Iranian negotiators walk out over Trump’s “insults”.

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Oil prices fall and stock markets rise as Iran claims ‘great progress’ made in peace talks with US

20:00 , James Reynolds

Oil prices fell and stocks rose on Monday after negotiators said that “great progress” had been made in talks with Iran and the United States, despite a growing war of words between Donald Trump and Iranian officials.

Brent crude futures were down 0.7% to $80.07 a barrel after mediators from Pakistan and Qatar said the parties had agreed over the weekend on a roadmap to reach a final deal within 60 days.