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Pakistan’s defense minister said the US and Iran are “close to some sort of arrangement” over the Strait of Hormuz, even after both sides appeared to toughened their positions in the long-deadlocked negotiations. 

“Things are shaping up in favor of peace,” Khawaja Asif told reporters in Islamabad on Tuesday, without giving details of any breakthrough. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi will shortly arrive in Tehran to hold talks with his Iranian counterpart, the Islamic Republic’s semi-official Fars agency reported. 

Talks between Iran and Oman about reopening Hormuz to some maritime shipping have reached an advanced stage, Al Jazeera reported earlier, citing a Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson. Pakistan has been mediating the conflict, alongside Qatar.   

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