[US-Israel, Iran War Day #107] US-Iran Framing of ‘End of War’ Signals Shift Despite Ongoing Hostility

Kayhan editor questions Hormuz Strait reopening, compensation plans Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor of Iran’s hardline Kayhan newspaper, questioned why senior officials had agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, arguing Tehran was relinquishing one of its strongest levers against its adversaries without securing meaningful compensation. Writing in Kayhan, Shariatmadari asked Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi why they would abandon a “decisive” tool that had brought enemies close to economic suffocation. He dismissed proposals to charge passing vessels service fees, arguing they paled in comparison to the loss of senior military commanders, nuclear scientists and civilians,…