Iran Daily Life
A man carries a carpet in hand-woven carpets market at Tehran's traditional main bazaar, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026.
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Iran has issued dramatic new demands for the Strait of Hormuz to reopen. Oman says talks to manage the strait between it and Iran continue. Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates says an Iranian missile targeted one of its ships that's owned by Abu Dhabi’s state-run ADNOC oil company. No casualties were reported. Elsewhere in the region, Yemen’s military attacked the country's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in response to the strikes, escalating tensions and threatening to reignite the civil war. And in Turkey, a Kurdish peace bill passed its first hurdle in parliament. The draft law aims to end the decades-long conflict with Kurdish separatists.
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