At least two ships that used Iranian ports passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday despite a US military blockade, data from the maritime tracking firm Kpler indicated Tuesday.
The Liberia-flagged bulk carrier Christianna transited the strategic strait after unloading corn at the Iranian port of Bandar Imam Khomeini, passing Iran's Larak Island around 1600 GMT on Monday, Kpler said. Washington's blockade came into effect two hours earlier.
A second ship, the Comoros-flagged tanker Elpis, was near Larak Island around 1100 GMT and cleared the strait about 1600 GMT, the data showed.
Pakistani officials said Tuesday that Islamabad has proposed a second round of talks to the US and Iran, as a fragile ceasefire in the Middle East still holds, and after the US announced a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.
Lebanese and Israeli representatives are scheduled to meet in Washington on Tuesday for US-mediated talks on ending the war on Lebanon, but the prospects of an agreement appear slim. The meeting mediated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio will include the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to Washington and the US ambassador to Beirut.
Naim Qassem, the leader of Hezbollah, called for the talks to be scrapped before they even began, describing them as "futile", while there are suspicions that Israel wants to continue the war.