Pezeshkian's words of defiance came as Iran's deputy foreign minister said a deal with Oman would bar all military vessels from the Strait of Hormuz in an escalation of Tehran's demands that drew opposition from Washington, which has previously threatened to bomb Oman if it "gets in the way". The "United States will achieve nothing" with its new round of economic sanctions, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Wednesday, in another retort from Tehran to Washington's threats of "economic asphyxiation." "With the measures that the go... [2646 chars]
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