Iran's foreign minister keeps indirect talks with the U.S. open; Iranian navy claims capture of underwater drone

Daily life continues in the strategic port city of Bandar Abbas on the Strait of Hormuz amid ongoing tensions between Iran and the United States, as Iranians spend time along the city's waterfront at sunset in Bandar Abbas, Iran on September 12, 2026.Fatemeh Bahrami | Anadolu | Getty ImagesIran is sticking to its position that it would only reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz if its conditions are met, despite a rebuke from U.S. President Donald Trump, while a senior Iranian military leader stressed his country's readiness to continue fighting.Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Sunday claimed that it seized an autonomous U.S. submarine."Our conditions are clear; any progress toward the opening of the Strait of Hormuz is contingent upon the fulfillment of these conditions, and we will not back down from them," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a post on his Telegram channel translated by Google."During our meetings with mediators, these conditions were fully conveyed, explained, and elaborated upon, and the mediators, in turn, relayed them to the American side," he said on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.Trump told reporters Sa...