Baqaei said that Carney chose to appease Washington by reframing a threat to "annihilate" Iran as merely "speaking the language of war."

U.S. and Iranian delegations met on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, rekindling diplomacy amid Trump's threat to "annihilate" the regime.

GURBULAK BORDER CROSSING, Turkey (AP) — Hundreds of trucks idle along the road into Iran from Turkey’s mountainous eastern border. Bustling even in normal times, the countries’ largest crossing is now a make-or-break economic lifeline for Tehran as the U.S. navy blockades its ports.

Senior Iranian officials say Washington has four to five days to respond to its conditions for reopening the strait

Oil prices advanced on Friday, cutting into losses over the past several sessions.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took to the UN stage in mourning attire to deliver a defiant message to Washington: Tehran will “never bow or bend the knee” to US bullying.

Tehran may be seeking leverage by letting some tankers through Hormuz while threatening others, though the uncertainties and risks remain elevated.

Continued oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz and a restart of Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline could ease physical supply pressures, analysts at MUFG said. However, persistent tanker attacks and limited progress in U.S.-Iran diplomacy should keep oil-market volatility and the geopolitical risk premium elevated, they said.

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Thursday that the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program helped trigger the war and warned that Tehran would not have peace as long as it maintained the program.