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The US and Iran have agreed to halt military attacks against each other and will hold follow-up talks on the Strait of Hormuz.
Axios reported on June 28 that the two sides agreed to stop all military action and plan to hold technical talks in Doha, Qatar, on June 29 to defuse tensions surrounding the waterway.
A senior US official said the sides had decided to stop all "kinetic" activity. For the time being, both sides will refrain from military action and ships will be able to navigate freely, another official said.
The talks had originally been scheduled to take place in Switzerland with Iran's nuclear program on the agenda. The venue was moved to Qatar after military tensions escalated, and the focus shifted to the Strait of Hormuz.
The US and Iran had earlier agreed in a ceasefire memorandum of understanding that Iran would make its best efforts to ensure the safe passage of commercial vessels, while the US would lift its blockade of Iranian ports.
The two sides also agreed to establish a hotline between the US military and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, to coordinate traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. The communications link, however, has not yet become operational, Axios reported.
Nick Stewart, who leads the US technical negotiating team, is expected to attend the talks.
