Using Strait of Hormuz as ‘pressure tool’ will deepen crisis, Qatari PM tells Iran

Qatar‘s prime minister told Iran‘s foreign minister ⁠that using ⁠the Strait of Hormuz as “a pressure tool” would ⁠only deepen the crisis in the Gulf, the Qatari foreign ministry said on Sunday.

Prime Minister Mohammed ⁠bin ⁠Abdulrahman al-Thani also told Iran’s Abbas Araqchi in a phone call that all parties in ⁠the conflict should respond to mediation efforts to end the war.

Al-Thani is also Qatar‘s ⁠foreign ‌minister. ‌The ministry ⁠did not ‌say when the call ⁠took place.