Hopes for peace deal fade as US and Iran exchange fire again

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · May 28, 2026 · 842 words · By Babak Kamiar

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US forces targeted Iranian drones near Bandar Abbas as the IRGC claimed it struck back at a US airbase, while Washington sanctioned Tehran's Hormuz toll authority and both sides published contradictory accounts of a possible deal.

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Iran and the US have continued to insist on fundamentally diverging versions of any final deal to end the ongoing war, as both sides reportedly exchanged strikes in the Persian Gulf for the second time in three days and Washington sanctioned Tehran's new…

Common ground

The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control placed the Persian Gulf Strait Authority on its sanctions list on Wednesday, saying it was "a new attempt by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to monetise its campaign of state-sponsored terror…

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Slogans, Appeal to Anger: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

Follow-up questions

What terms are actually in the Iran proposal, and which side would have to compromise first?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control placed the Persian Gulf Strait Authority on its sanctions list on Wednesday?
What happens next if the deal stalls, and who has the power to restart talks?

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 16 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control placed the Persian Gulf Strait Authority on its sanctions list on Wednesday”

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Multiple web search results from May 28, 2026, confirm the US Treasury announced sanctions against the Persian Gulf Strait Authority on a Wednesday.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jamshid Eshaghi (Persian: جمشید اسحاقی; 7 July 1961 – 31 March 2026) was an Iranian major general. He served as Chief of the Office of Budget and Financial Affairs within the Armed Forces General Staf…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamshid_Eshaghi

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mohammad Reza Fallahzadeh (Persian: محمدرضا فلاح‌زاده) is an Iranian senior military officer and politician who is deputy commander of Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) since …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Fallahzadeh

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iranian-Americans, also known as Persian Americans, are United States citizens or inhabitants who have Iranian ancestry or citizenship. According to Iran's National Organization for Civil Registration…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Americans

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Claim 2: “five Gulf states — Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE — formally warned shipping companies through the International Maritime Organisation not to comply with PGSA regulations”

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Claim 3: “The IRGC also claimed it had attacked a US oil tanker attempting to pass through the strait with its radar switched off”

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Claim 4: “Washington sanctioned Tehran's Hormuz toll authority”

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Wikipedia explicitly defines the Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) as an Iranian agency and web search results confirm the US Treasury sanctioned it.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major maritime choke point for world energy trade, has been largely blocked by Iran since 28 February 2026, when the United States and Israel launched …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_crisis

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) is an Iranian government agency responsible for the authorisation and regulation of maritime transit after contacting the authority. It was founded on 5 May 20…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf_Strait_Authority

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Strait of Hormuz () is a waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. On the north coast lies Iran, and on the south coast lies the Musandam Peninsula under the Musandam Governorate of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz

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Claim 5: “approximately one-fifth of the world's oil and a significant volume of non-oil goods pass through the waterway daily”

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Claim 6: “The IRGC disputed the account, saying the US had struck "scorched earth" near Bandar Abbas airport”

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While there is evidence of IRGC claiming retaliation, the specific 'scorched earth' phrasing is not widely corroborated across multiple independent sources in the provided evidence, though the general dispute of the US account is present.

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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 ... US Central Command said its forces struck an Iranian ground control station on the outskirts of Bandar Abbas airport that was preparing to ...
https://www.facebook.com/UNINewsagency/posts/the-united-stat…

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web search NEUTRAL — May 31, 2026 ... The escalation began when U.S. forces carried out a defensive strike against an Iranian drone ground control station near Bandar Abbas. In ...
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZB33btCJ5y/

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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 15, 2026 ... Israeli fighter jets struck more than 600 targets across Iran in nearly three days of fighting, Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, the spokesman for the ...
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/02/world/iran-us-israel…

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Claim 7: “US forces targeted Iranian drones near Bandar Abbas”

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Multiple web search results confirm US forces targeted Iranian drones and facilities near Bandar Abbas, including reports of downing four drones.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bandar Abbas (Persian: بندرعباس) is a class that includes a pair of fleet supply ships operated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandar_Abbas-class_replenishme…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iran Air Flight 655 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by two surface-to-air missiles fired by USS Vincennes, a Uni…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This timeline of the ongoing 2026 Iran war covers the period since 28 February 2026.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2026_Iran_war

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Claim 8: “claiming it had retaliated at 4:50 am by targeting the American airbase from which the attack originated”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm the specific time of 4:50 am for the retaliation.

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Claim 9: “the IRGC claimed it struck back at a US airbase”

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Multiple independent web sources report that the IRGC claimed responsibility for missile strikes on US military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces (Persian: نیروی زمینی سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, romanized: Niroye Zamini Sepah Pasdaran Enghalab Eslami), acronymed NEZSA (Persian: نزسا), are th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Co…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN; Persian: نیروی دریایی سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, romanized: niru-ye daryâyi-e sepâh-e pâsdârân-e enghelâb-e eslâmi; officially abbreviated in Persi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), also known domestically as Sepah or Pasdaran and internationally as Iranian Revolutionary Guards, is a multi-service primary force of the Iranian Armed Fo…
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Claim 10: “an Israeli open-source intelligence analyst published satellite imagery showing Iranian reconstitution efforts at the Yazd Missile Base in Yazd Province since the ceasefire took effect in April”

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Claim 11: “Iranian officials had previously spoken publicly about a fee of $2 million (€1.7m) per vessel”

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Web search results specifically mention reporting by Bloomberg and other sources that Iran began charging transit fees of up to $2 million per vessel.

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web search NEUTRAL — The Strait of Hormuz crisis of 2026 is a watershed moment for global markets. The combination of legislative tolling and physical mining has removed 20 million barrels of oil per day from the market, …
https://markets.financialcontent.com/stocks/article/marketmi…

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web search NEUTRAL — Iran has begun charging commercial vessels transit fees of up to $2 million per voyage for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, according to reporting by Bloomberg.
https://rankedbrief.com/articles/iran-hormuz-toll-booth-2m-p…

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web search NEUTRAL — A billboard that appeared over the weekend in Tehran shows Iranian soldiers with American military planes and ships caught in a net, with the message “The Strait of Hormuz will stay closed.”Credit...A…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/world/middleeast/strait-h…

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Claim 12: “The Strait of Hormuz has been largely closed to international shipping since the war began on 28 February”

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Claim 13: “Iran published a map claiming regulatory control over a stretch of the strait that extended into the territorial waters of the UAE and Oman”

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Claim 14: “US CENTCOM said it had targeted four Iranian drones described as a threat to the strait and destroyed a drone control station in Bandar Abbas”

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Multiple web search results explicitly state US CENTCOM reported targeting four drones and a control station in Bandar Abbas.

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web search NEUTRAL — The Iranian drones posed a threat around the Strait of Hormuz, the key waterway that the Iranian regime has effectively choked off. “These actions were measured, purely defensive, and intended to main…
https://news.az/news/us-strikes-iranian-control-center-and-d…

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web search NEUTRAL — American forces have carried out a targeted strike against an Iranian military facility in the port city of Bandar Abbas, following the downing of four Iranian kamikaze drones, the US Central Command …
https://head-post.com/us-strikes-iranian-drone-facility-in-b…

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web search NEUTRAL — US Central Command released a video of it intercepting what it says is an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel.In an update on the incident, the US Central Command (Centcom) maintained that these drone attack…
https://www.firstpost.com/world/us-claims-to-strike-4-drones…

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Claim 15: “Kuwaiti media reported sirens in the country during the early hours of Thursday morning”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding sirens in Kuwait on Thursday morning.

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Claim 16: “The White House denied the existence of a draft agreement published by Iranian state television regarding the negotiations”

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Multiple web search results from May 27, 2026, confirm the White House denied the existence of a draft agreement published by Iranian state TV.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, historically known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The White House State Ballroom is part of a planned new East Wing for the White House, the official residence of the president of the United States. The new East Wing is planned to replace the origina…
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