Iran's military declared the Strait of Hormuz closed again on Saturday, its military command said, hours after reopening it and with more than a dozen commercial ships passing through the vital waterway.
The toing and froing over the strait cast doubt on US President Donald Trump's  optimism the day before, that a peace deal to end the US-Israeli war with Iran was "very close".
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